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First steps toward redeveloping the old mill site near Shoemaker Bay were taken at a special meeting of the City and Borough Assembly on Dec. 2. Assembly members approved a proposal received for an assessment and feasibility study for possible redevelopment of the Silver Bay Logging Company mill site, a 110-acre property currently in private hands. Along with the Borough’s old Institute property, the mill has lately been suggested as suitable for future expansion since its closure in 2008. While the 134-acre Institute property has potential f...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 2, 1915: Commissioner and Mrs. Sowton of the Salvation Army arrived on the Princess last Tuesday morning and since have been holding a Congress here among the workers from the different camps of Southeastern Alaska. About seventy delegates attended. In an interview, Commissioner Sowton states: “My trip to Alaska has been very successful and very pleasant. In my conference of the three days I have held many delightful meetings, and I feel that we have materially strengthened the Army work in...
A special stakeholders meeting coordinated by Wrangell Cooperative Association and Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority determined jobs and affordable housing for seniors should be top local priorities. This conclusion was reached using the help of participants of last week's meetings and results collected through WCA's 2015 Community Needs Survey. Survey results found a lack of economic opportunities was the most important local issue. While the 60-plus respondents felt Wrangell's friendly...
Thursday, December 3 David V. Evenson Jr., 24, appeared before First District Judicial Officer Kevin Miller on charges of Misc/Weapons 4 – Possession While Intoxicated and Reckless Endangerment, both Class A misdemeanors. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charges and was ordered to concurrently serve 45 days, with 135 days for each count to be suspended consecutively. Evenson was also ordered to pay $3,700 in fines and surcharges with $3,100 suspended, to complete a behavioral health evaluation and forfeit his firearm to Wrangell Police D...
Monday, November 30 Agency Assist – Alarm going off. FD dispatched. Tuesday, December 1 Arrested Larry Wayne Aitken, 43, on charges of Assault IV/DV. Wednesday, December 2 Suspicious Person. Report of Theft. Thursday, December 3 Agency Assist/FD. Found Property: Assortment of keys turned in from the Post Office. Agency Assist/Alarm. Citizen Assist: Vehicle unlocked. Arrested David Christopher Wolten, 24, on charges of Assault IV, Criminal Trespass of Dwelling and Criminal Mischief. Friday, December 4 Arrested Marline Fain, 58, on charges of D...
The priest who had been serving the Roman Catholic parishes in Petersburg and Wrangell died over the weekend. Fr. Thomas Weise, 46, died Sunday evening, Dec. 6 at a hospital in San Luis Obispo, Calif., surrounded by family. He had been on a visit for the Thanksgiving weekend when respiratory arrest triggered a heart attack on Nov. 25. He was hospitalized, but never regained consciousness. Speaking at Wrangell's annual Dove Tree proceedings Sunday afternoon, Fr. Michael Galbraith explained Weise...
Sealaska has shamed themselves To the Editor: Last week in Petersburg, Alaska’s newest environmental group ‘The Greater Southeast Alaska Conservation Community,’ (gsacc.net) gave a slide show on the latest industrial logging now taking place on state land, Sealaska land and other land grant interests. The slideshow consisted of images from ‘Google Earth’ satellite overviews of Sealaska lands on the Cleveland Peninsula, and also on P.O.W.’s Election Creek and other examples. Needless to say, the push to privatize land from the Tongass Nat...
Wrangell’s high school wrestlers concluded their last regular tournament of the season strongly, with a couple of first placements and more than a few second- and fourth-placements in Sitka last weekend. “It went very well,” said Coach Jeff Rooney afterward. The Wolves’ wins put them in contention with Craig and Mount Edgecumbe for the 2A Region V Tournament this weekend, where individual wrestlers will have to land in the top-four of their weight classes to proceed to State in Anchorage next week. “We’re right up there,” said Rooney. “They’re...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska telephone companies will not have to produce annual phone books starting in 2016. A regulation signed by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallot on Wednesday removes the requirement, the Juneau Empire reported (http://bit.ly/1Iw9CvG). Phone books are getting thinner as people increasingly replace landlines with cell phones. The state’s larger phone companies have been pushing for the change since at least 2012. “Our customers have told us they have less and less need for printed phone books,’’ said Hannah Blankenship, a spokeswom...
The plan to build a memorial dedicated to Wrangell's mariners is now shovel-ready – organizers now just need to pull together the funds to buy the shovels. The Port Commission has been spearheading the memorial project, and accepted completed designs from Corvus Design's principal landscape architect Chris Mertl during its Dec. 3 meeting. "I'm really happy with the progress we've made," said commissioner Clay Hammer. "Stuff's about to get real here." A draft design was last presented to the p...
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce is seeking input from community chambers around Southeast Alaska regarding the elimination of Daylight Savings Time. A bill which would take the state off of DST remains in subcommittee in the Alaska State House, after being passed by the Senate in March. Its consideration by the House State Affairs Committee will resume when the Legislature starts its next session in January. Under the DST-less system being proposed, Alaska would continue to remain four hours behind the East Standard Time Zone during the winter....
Despite some encouraging signs that Pacific halibut stocks are stabilizing after being on a downward spiral for nearly two decades, catches could decrease slightly in most regions again next year. That’s IF fishery managers accept the catch recommendations by halibut scientists, which they don’t always do. At the International Pacific Halibut Commission meeting last week in Seattle, the total 2016 catch, meaning for the West Coast, British Columbia and Alaska, was recommended at 26.56 million pounds, down from 29.22 million pounds this year. Fo...
PETERSBURG – Petersburg Harbor video surveillance footage may confirm a meteor did pass over Petersburg in the early morning hours of Sat., Nov. 21. Eyewitness reports placed the fireball at times ranging between 2:22 a.m. to 2:33 a.m. Petersburg Harbor video surveillance footage shows a bright flash of light lasting for two seconds on nearly all its camera feeds at 2:25 a.m. The Petersburg Public Library video camera also captured images of a bright flash of light at exactly the same time. Johnson Space Center NASA scientist Marc Fries poi...
Members of the Tongass Advisory Committee (TAC) ended a series of meetings last week in Ketchikan, finalizing its recommendations on an updated management strategy for the country’s largest national forest. The TAC was formed 16 months ago to review the United States Forest Service’s draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for amending the current Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan. The management plan amendment is in response to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s directive in July 2013 to transition timber harvest in the Tongass...