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The Borough Assembly met in two sessions on Tuesday, June 12 to hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance relating to collection of utility fees, and to pursue a second reading of the ordinance during the regular session. Before the utility issue could be addressed in open session, however, assembly member David Jack, with fellow member Bill Privett, asked to have the agendized approval of the Wrangell Medical Center 2013 budget tabled until a future meeting. Jack asked to have WMC Chief Financial Officer Olinda White come before the...
The deadline for registration in the popular Summer Reading Program is set for June 30 at the Irene Ingle Public Library. This free program, which began June 1 and runs through July 30, is available to students in Kindergarten through Grade 9. The current incarnation of the program began in the 1998 as a way to encourage the children of Wrangell to dive into the world of reading during their summer vacation. After reading a book, children will take a retention test on a computer, which is graded and transmitted to the school at the end of the p...
More than 125 prizes await Wrangell kids this summer in the Summer Reading Program which runs from June 1- July 31. The program is sponsored by the Irene Ingle Public Library, Friends of the Library, and the Wrangell Public Schools. Students from kindergarten to ninth grade can take part. For the 15th year, the summer program will be using the Accelerated Reading Program. The Wrangell students are already familiar with the program which is used in the schools. In the program, participants pick out a book from designated bins, check the reading...
At the Wrangell Medical Center Board meeting March 28, local physician Greg Salard told board members he has no intention of leaving town despite his hospital privileges being revoked. “I have full intentions of getting my credentials back one way or the other, and my wife and kids and I are not going anywhere,” he said. WMC board members, acting as a separate committee, voted in early March to deny Salard the right to continue to work at the city-owned hospital. Salard is a physician employed by Alaska Island Community Services, and was pre...
Gone are the days of flipping through a catalog of cards to locate a book. Now, Wrangell residents can use the library’s computers to search through an automated catalog or can even do so online in the comfort of their own home. The digital catalog is part of an overall system upgrade at Irene Ingle Public Library, which went live last week. Members of the library will now be given a library card and account number, which they can use to log onto the library’s website and search for books, mov...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly met in two open sessions last week to address a number of items of new business and to certify the most recent special election vote for Proposition 1. During a special session on Monday, Nov. 21, the vote was certified 425-172 in favor of the proposition to provide both the land and buildings comprising the new Wrangell Medical Center as collateral on a $24.7 million USDA loan. The second session, a regularly scheduled meeting, was held on Tuesday, Nov. 22 and...
