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Taking a cue from the success of Evergreen Elementary School's winter Girls on the Run program, for the first time a similar Girls on Track group has been started for girls at Stikine Middle School. Girls on the Run and Girls on Track are both part of a national program that combines running and training for a 5K with teaching girls life skills through interactive lessons and promoting community awareness. The girls meet three times a week after school. Every session begins with a lesson...
If you haven't joined in the fun already, there's still time as the fifth annual Alaska Bearfest continues around Wrangell through Sunday afternoon. A blend of fun, food and education, the festival celebrates the area's bear population. Bearfest was started in 2010 by Sylvia Ettefagh, operator of Alaska Vistas. In addition to the educational and recreational opportunities it presents, Ettefagh's aim for the festival is to make Wrangell a top destination for ursine enthusiasts everywhere. "Our...
Officials kicked off the annual fourth of July festivities with food and speeches Saturday evening. Queen candidates introduced their teams and delivered an opening address. Food booths, a mainstay of the annual queen competition, opened Sunday morning in the alley between Wells Fargo and the Elks Lodge. The competition, in which local residents buy tickets to vote for their favorite queen candidates up until the winner is announced in July, is the official launch not only of the heated...
Teachers and school board members gathered at the Elks Lodge May 22 to honor four retiring teachers, an administrator, and a middle school secretary. While the retirement banquet punctuates the end of an accumulated century of teaching experience, many of the schools personnel honored, like 30-year veteran teacher Dan Roope, said reality hadn't yet – and wouldn't yet – set in. "It doesn't seem real right now," he said. "One of the nice things about teaching is that you get to go to some oth...
The Wrangell Parks and Recreation committee unanimously recommended two measures to the borough assembly at Wednesday’s meeting. The first vote recommended the assembly change the hours of operation for the pool and workout facility. A second vote recommended an ordinance for consideration related to logging in city parks. The hours change could head to a public hearing for feedback before consideration by the assembly. The ordinance will go to the borough attorney for legal evaluation before beginning the process of becoming ordinance. The c...
Let's be clear: the Lady Wolves softball team showed up in force this year. Unlike the high school baseball team, which didn't garner enough participants to field a full team (not enough relief pitching for a double-header has hamstrung the Wolves baseball team for this season), the softballers have 16 student athletes – almost enough players to stock two full teams without relief – raring to go. Unfortunately, they lack credible opposition, school activities officials have said. Officials hav...
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...
Co-products is the big new buzz word in the seafood industry as more companies move towards ‘head to tails’ usages for fish. “For instance, the oils we are producing now from pollock livers has become so valuable in capsules and other human nutraceutical products, it makes no sense to call the livers a “byproduct” of the fillets or surimi. All of it is important in the puzzle of how to maximize the value of each fish caught,” said Alex Oliveira, a food specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, a satellite campus of the UAF...
The Wrangell High boys' varsity basketball team lost twice in Haines this weekend. Friday's 48-60 loss and Saturday's 47-53 brought the Wolves' record against Haines to 2-2 on the season. The Wolves own a conference record of 4-8 and third-place seed headed into the Region V tournament in Juneau March 5, in between second place (and first round opponents) Craig and last-place Haines. Perennial power Metlakatla holds the first place seed in this year's four-team double-elimination tournament....
The Wrangell High team brought three straight losses home from the Clarke Cochrane Invitational this weekend. Wolves fans can take solace in the fact that the team has shown improvement in critical areas, even if the scoreboard lists the smaller number on the Wolves' side, said head coach Ray Stokes. Competition at the tournament also involved larger schools, Stokes added. "We lost all three of our games, but it was really pretty good competition," he said. "We're young and inexperienced, and...
First-year girls basketball head coach Edna Abella-Nore has high expectations for the upcoming season unrelated to the team record. "My expectations for the season ... the biggest one is that every one of them work really hard," she said. "That's the most important thing. If they come to practice every day and work 110 percent and apply that not only in practice but also during games, I think it's going to be very successful." The uncertainty about where the Lady Wolves will stand at the end of...
The high school basketball team hopes to be competitive for the Region V tournament March 5 to March 8. Nine weekends of conference play and an invitational tournament in Ketchikan stand between them and the season's end, as well as a relatively untested squad, said head coach Ray Stokes. "Our goal for the season: To get better every game, and hopefully come tournament time we'd like to be competitive and in the hunt for the regional tournament," he said. "We're a very young team. I don't know...
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The Bering Sea crab fleet was ready to head to the fishing grounds over the weekend after the government shutdown and unissued licenses stalled the Oct. 15 start of the crab season. Skippers of the 80 boats estimated the extra time tied up in Dutch Harbor cost them each $1,000 per day. Meanwhile, the situation was even worse for small boat crabbers at Kodiak and the Westward region who learned there would not even be a Tanner fishery come January. “It is not unexpected,” said Mark Stichert, a shellfish biologist at ADF&G in Kodiak. “We...
Thirty-seven moose have been checked in to Alaska Department of Fish and game this season. Rich Lowell, Area Wildlife Biologist for Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said nineteen moose were checked in during the first week, which is close to average for the last 10 years “Most of the harvest occurs within the first two weeks of the season,” Lowell said. As of yesterday afternoon, 12 moose have been harvested from the Stikine, 12 from Kupreanof and six from Mitkof. Although 12 moose were taken from Kupreanof only six were taken from the Kak...
The Island of Faith congregation has settled in with a new intern pastor. Lynne Ogren, the church’s intern pastor, arrived in Wrangell back in January, but started her ministry recently. So far, she’s overcome her share of island adjustments. “Not being able to drive to another town has been an adjusment,” said the Oak Harbor, Wash. native. “When you need to go to the mall in another town, you just get in your car and go. Here you need a plane or a boat. That took some adjustment for me.” The...
Attendees at a local nature hike kept returning to one question again and again Sunday morning. Hike attendee Rudy Briskar put it best. “Edible?” he said. The hike was the second part of a two-day event focusing on fungi (in particular, mushrooms and lichens). Two ecologists with the U.S. Forest Service were on hand to answer questions and discuss some of the characteristics of mushrooms found in and around the Rainbow Falls trail. Kate Mohatt, from the Chugach National Forest, and Karen Dil...
A spate of break-ins to vehicles and possibly a home has the Wrangell Police Department – and private citizens on the lookout for suspicious behavior. The break-ins occurred on the night of Wednesday, July 17, sometime between 10:30-11 p.m., according to a number of statements given by the victims. In total, seven vehicles were either broken into or saw the perpetrator attempt to start the vehicle. One of the unlucky Wrangell residents to have his vehicle tampered with is fire chief Tim Buness. “I went to bed at about a quar...
For Alaska Natives, food is essential – and traditional foods are of extreme importance to the indigenous people of the Last Frontier as they choose to live their history and culture in the modern age. In Wrangell, the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium leads the way with its traditional foods program, under the direction of Ken Hoyt. Hoyt moved to Alaska in 2012 to take over the program and has, in the past year, introduced a variety of projects to the Natives and non-Natives of W...
The Alaska Marine Highway System is celebrating 50 years of service to Alaskans this year. In light of this, the Wrangell Sentinel is looking back at the stories that shaped the development of the system, which began with one ship in 1963 and has grown to eleven vessels serving more than 350,000 passengers a year. It all began with the M/V Malaspina, when the first ship in the newly formed system docked in Ketchikan on Jan. 21, 1963. Three days later the vessel docked in Wrangell for the first...
The legendary mountain climber Barry Finlay once wrote in his book, Kilimanjaro and Beyond, that “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” Two local men have proven that point by cresting the massive mountain – the tallest in Africa and the highest freestanding mountain in the world at 19,341 feet above sea level – last month. Wrangellites Bruce Jamieson and Dustin Johnson recently returned to Southeast Alaska after making the trip to Tanzania where they conquered the pea...
The traditional cedar screen that will adorn the face of the renovated Chief Shakes Tribal House will spring from bare wood beginning this week – and give colorful life to the new building, courtesy of master carver Steve Brown and his crew of adzers. According to Brown, the past week saw the cedar used on the screen adzed, joined and the traditional design drawn on its face courtesy of some high-tech methods. “We’re wrapping up the adzing of the boards and the surface will have the same hand-...
A blistering performance by Wolves senior captain Ryan Reeves was the highlight of last weekend’s trip to Craig for the Wrangell squad – and saw a heartbreaking loss in a game where Reeves scored in the double digits and more. Reeves’ performance was on fire on Sunday night when he scored 21 points for the Wolves off six buckets, a pair of three-pointers, and going 3-for-5 from the line. The performance put forth by Reeves and company was so convincing that Wrangell led the Panthers at the end of the first and third periods. The Panthers won th...
