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For the next three months, Wrangell will be experiencing above normal precipitation levels and temperatures, according to the National Weather Service in Juneau. The Climate Prediction Center is showing a 33 to 40 percent chance of perception levels being above average both in Wrangell and throughout Southeast Alaska this winter. During the same period, Wrangell will also be seeing a 33 to 40 percent chance of warmer than normal temperatures. "Although this time period is too far out to give...
December 4, 1919 R.M. Allen and Associates, who recently liberated a number of foxes on Channel Island, near Wrangell, have recovered all but three of the animals. They have moved their outfit and stock to Entrance Island, Hobart Bay, where they will establish their fox ranch. It became necessary to move the animals as it was found that the waters around Channel Island freeze under certain conditions, and in that case the foxes would be lost. December 1, 1944 Wrangell was host to a large group of army personnel this week with the arrival on...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team made a short trip north to Petersburg for the Viking Mix and Match this past weekend. They went up against wrestlers from Petersburg, Craig, Thorne Bay and Thunder Mountain. In the Varsity 103 bracket, Devlyn Campbell and Jaceb Hay both took third place, losing by fall to Merrick Nilsen of Petersburg. In the Varsity 140 bracket, Ethan Blatchley took fourth place. In the Varsity 160 bracket, James Shilts and Hunter Wiederspohn both took fourth place. Shilts...
November 25 Welfare check. Citizen Assist. November 26 Citizen Assist: Vehicle unlock. Agency Assist: Hoonah P.D. Theft. Agency Assist: Fire. November 27 Theft. Subpoena Service. Traffic Stop. False Report. November 28 Agency Assist: Line Crewå November 29 Agency Assist: Fire Department. Suspicious Circumstance. Agency Assist: Probation. November 30 Suspicious Circumstance. Suspicious Activity. December 1 Subpoena Service. Citizen Assist: Flat tire. Traffic Complaint. During this reporting period there were five EMS calls....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Free to a good home: One newspaper. Not a single edition of a paper but the entire newspaper.Publisher Larry Persily is willing to give away The Skagway News to the right person or couple who are willing to move to Skagway, Alaska, a cruise ship town that once boasted four newspapers during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush days. "The only way this paper has a long-term future, and anything that I've ever seen that works with small town weeklies or bi-weeklies is...
I would like to update the community on my recent trip to Washington DC. It was an excellent opportunity to represent the needs and concerns of our community as well as highlight the challenges we share with all rural communities across America. I was asked to testify in front of the Senate Resource Committee about the importance of the Secure Rural Schools Program (SRS) and the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) programs. Combined these programs bring in well over a million dollars of increased...
Charlotte Edna Churchill went to her "reward" on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2019, wrapped in the arms of her loving husband of 37 years, Bill Churchill of Wrangell, Alaska. Born Charlotte Edna Hubert on May 8, 1924 in Sitka, Alaska, Charlotte had many hobbies including beading, cooking, weaving, knitting and reading. She was a lifetime member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, (ANS) Camp # 1. She was preceded in death by brothers, Arthur and Rosco Max and sisters, Jean Anderson and Edith...
Lower catches for Pacific halibut are in the forecast for the foreseeable future. That was the message from the International Pacific Halibut Commission at its meeting last week in Seattle. The IPHC oversees halibut stock research and sets catch limits for nine fishing regions ranging from Northern California and British Columbia to the Bering Sea. There are fewer of the prized flatfish (down 4%), they weigh less (down 5%) and no big pulses appear to be coming into the stock was the grim and the results of summer long surveys at nearly 1,370...
PETERSBURG – Garitt Johnston, 30, was indicted by a Grand Jury on Nov. 21 for his involvement with Eric Jennings, who had received a package with heroin, methamphetamine and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) in it on Nov. 9. Johnston was indicted on one count of aiding or abetting the manufacturing or delivery of a schedule IA controlled substance with intent to manufacture or deliver and one count of aiding or abetting the possession with intent to manufacture or deliver any amount of a schedule IIA or IIIA controlled substance, according to t...