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The forecast for this spring: sunshine, followed by small children on pitchers' mounds. The Little League season unofficially opened this weekend with an open tryout session in the community gym. About 65 kids signed up for the perennial summer baseball league, which features travel to Petersburg. Practices will be held for the next three weeks. Opening ceremonies for the season will be held April 26. The league is structured into four categories, according to Brennan Eagle, who is among the... Full story
The seals' death circulated via text message, phone, and word of mouth the minute they touched the shore of Shakes Island Friday. Alaskan Native Wrangellites had hunted, killed, butchered - and would eventually smoke and eat - harbor seals, long a traditional part of the native diet and permitted under strict guidelines by the Marine Mammal Protection and Endangered Species acts. Parts of the law allow hunting for subsistence and the manufacture of Native handicrafts, according to the Harbor... Full story
One day earlier in the school year, a mother said her unidentified Evergreen Elementary School student came home with a concussion, a bloody nose, a split lip, and a sprained ankle. He had been bullied by older students off school grounds, he told his mother. His assailants had repeatedly banged his head against the ground, causing the concussion, she said. The student and his mother went to the hospital, where he was briefly treated, and then released, his mother said. Middle school students may have been involved (that later turned out not... Full story
The March 27 story “Wrangell team scores second place at Juneau gold medal tourney” incorrectly named Keith Appleman the assistant basketball coach at Mt. Edgecumbe High School. Appleman is the assistant coach for the Thunderbirds gold medal team. Archie Young is the head coach of the Mt. Edgecumbe girls basketball team. Jason Clark – also a team member – was accidentally omitted from a list of names submitted to the Sentinel. The Sentinel regrets the error....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. April 9, 1914: Another industry will be added to Wrangell's ever-growing variety next week in the shape of a dray and transport company. Mr. Oscar Carlson expects a horse and wagon for the new line up on the Alki, which sails from Seattle tonight. The new business is a much-needed one, and with Mr. Carlson at the helm, it is an assured success from the start. During this dry weather, much care should be taken when burning brush. The fire company was called out twice today. April 7, 1939: In the...
Monday, March 24 Suspicious circumstances. Agency assist, alarm. Tuesday, March 25 Nothing to Report. Wednesday, March 26 Report of harassing phone calls. Traffic Stop – Verbal warning for driving habits. Thursday, March 27 Agency assist – Luggage Pickup. Alarm. Friday, March 28 Alarm. Disturbance – Trespass warning given. Citizen Assist – Unlock vehicle. Possible Underage Drinking. Noise Disturbance – Caller reported loud music. Saturday, March 29 Nothing to Report. Sunday, March 30 Noise Complaint. There were two ambulance calls and two d...
Monday, March 24 Geoffrey Stutz, 22, appeared before First District Judge Kevin Miller on charges of Furnishing Alcohol To A Person Under 21. The Defendant entered a guilty plea. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 70 days suspended, ordered to pay $200 in fines and surcharges with $100 suspended and placed on probation for one year....
Anne Carroll (Carol Anne) (Mamsie) Petticrew, 75, of Wasilla died on March 20, 2014 in the arms of her children she loved so dearly. She was born December 27, 1938, in Nikolski (Umnak Island), Alaska to Steve Casey and Tatiana Ermeloff. She was the grandchild of George Ermeloff, Chief of Umnak, and Sophie Dushkin of Morzhovi. In 1941, Anne was an Aleut Evacuee. As a young girl, she spent time in Ketchikan and Wrangell. She attended Wrangell High School, was a cheerleader, and graduated in 1959.... Full story
Hello and welcome to week ten of Peggy’s Corner of the House. Every year I look forward to the House Majority poll on issues pertinent to Alaskans. I was personally very pleased to see that the majority of the public opinion indicates that both sides of the Legislature are on the right track. There were, of course, many questions in the survey dealing with all kinds of issues that the Legislature is working on that will affect all of us. I also know that it is important for those of us in rural and Southeast Alaska to always take these r...
A planned $10-million cut in state contributions to employee retirements could affect budgets here, officials said. Legislators in both the Alaska House and Senate have trimmed $10 million from the previous year’s contribution to the Public Employee Retirement System, known as PERS. Gov. Sean Parnell’s budget had originally included a $3 billion infusion into the system. PERS is a shared burden between municipalities and the state government in order to provide retirement pensions for public employees at the municipal and state level. The sta...
Health consumers are ready to descend on the Nolan Center this weekend for reduced rates on a health profile and five other screenings. The reduced rates on a health profile, prostate screening, hemoglobin A1C (a type of diabetic screening), vitamin D screenings, and a hepatitis C test are the centerpiece of the annual Health Fair, set for Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon. Officials with Wrangell Medical Center held a preregistration March 21 and 22, but people looking to get a reduced rate on...
PETERSBURG – The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted unanimously to increase electric rates by 4 percent over a two-year period. The rate increase comes after Petersburg Municipal Power and Light (PMPL) Superintendent Joe Nelson asked for guidance from the assembly as he moves forward in creating next year’s budget. Nelson told the assembly one of two things needed to be decided, one of which was the rate increase. “The other one would be to purposely approve a deficit budget which draws our reserves down and basically kicks the can down the r...
Middle and high school students may find themselves facing a new slate of language arts classes when fall rolls around. The changes are planned ahead of revisions to the Alaska state educational standards planned for the 2015-16 school year, school officials say. They’re also planned to take advantage of consistently improving language arts abilities among incoming sixth-graders, said Bob Davis, a language arts teacher at Stikine Middle School. The majority of changes will take place in the middle school, Davis said. “It’s partly” standar...
City officials will this month give serious consideration to purchasing the former site of the Wrangell Mill. The city had always been considering a purchase of the mill property, located near 5.5 mile Zimovia Highway, but were waiting for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to weigh in on the site before evaluating the mill. Earlier this month, the DEC notified the borough that the property had passed environmental muster and was ready for sale, said borough manager Jeff Jabusch. “There was some contamination out there, like m...
Nine names are vying for three seats on the state Board of Fisheries, including six newcomers. That gives Governor Parnell the unique opportunity to replace a majority of the seven-member Fish Board, should he choose to do so, and should the Alaska legislature go along with it - an unlikely scenario. It took filing a Freedom of Information request and a 10 day wait to get the names of the Fish Board hopefuls, said veteran legislative watch dog Bob Tkacz in his weekly Laws for the Sea. They include the three incumbents - John Jensen of...
PETERSBURG – A local boater is safe after a search involving Petersburg Search and Rescue members Monday evening, authorities said. The man launched his 14-foot skiff from Banana Point on the south end of Mitkof Island Monday. When a family member became concerned they called emergency personnel. Petersburg SAR Director Robert Carter got the call around 8 p.m. Carter and SAR volunteer Ted Sanhofer contacted witnesses who thought they saw the lost man on a small island near Green’s Camp. The two SAR volunteers set up base camp at Greens Camp...
Library staff at the Irene Ingle Memorial Library will begin participating in a series of webinars intended to evaluate ways to improve service for local patrons. The online meetings, known as the Edge Initiative, are part of a push to promoting best technology practices among the staffs and facilities at 20 libraries across Alaska, said library director Kay Jabusch. “Some of the things you do well, you want to do more of that,” she said. The Initiative involves a questionnaire about how technology is used at the library, Jabusch said. A slew o...
