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After 30 years on the bench, Wrangell's district magistrate will conclude her legal career today. Chris Ellis has served as a magistrate judge for First District Court in Wrangell for 14 of those years, with most of her preceding tenure spent in Craig. When she graduated with her bachelor's degree in 1973, law hadn't been on her mind, but Alaska was. "Basically I studied anthropology with a specialty in archaeology, and my goal was to come to Alaska," she said. Ellis found herself drawn to the V...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska is expected to receive more than $56 million in disaster relief for groups impacted by the drop in pink salmon numbers in the Gulf of Alaska. The Juneau Empire reports the money is part of the $200 million that the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is sending to struggling fisheries across the nation. In 2016, pink salmon runs around Alaska dipped dramatically. In southeast Alaska, revenue from pink salmon dropped 51 percent below a five-year average. Gov. Bill Walker said in a statement issued Thursday that t...
The local tourism sector has seen some logistical gains this season, as a trio of new boats are added to Wrangell's outfitter fleet. Mark Galla, of Alaska Peak and Seas, launched a newly upgraded craft from the city dock just last week. Galla has been taking visitors up the Stikine River and to Anan Creek since 1987, going into the business full-time from 1990 on. "It's a 30-foot Bentz jet boat, 18-passenger, two crew," he said of the craft, named Bear Necessity. The aluminum boat was...
For the first time since 1995, Wrangell will be hosting the annual shareholders’ meeting for Sealaska Corporation this weekend. Formed in 1972 after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act had been adopted the previous year, Sealaska has become the largest of 13 regional corporations subsequently created in the state. The corporation represents 22,000 Native shareholders from among the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples, of which 254 live in Wrangell. Headquartered in Juneau, Sealaska manages 650,000 acres of tribal lands and makes i...
June 28, 1918 The Postmaster will have on hand at the Wrangell Post Office a sufficient supply of war savings stamps to take care of the large amount of extra sales on that day. Representatives of the War Savings Committee will be at the Town Hall from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to meet every loyal person who may desire to call for information or give assistance in the drive and deliver War Savings Stamps and receive pledges covering later purchases of Stamps during this year. All citizens should subscribe to the limit of their ability. June 18,...
May 28 Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Wrangell issued Ronald Hall, 73, from Juneau, a $110 citation for no biodegradable escape mechanism on his sport fish shrimp pot in the District Court at Wrangell. June 1 Alaska Wildlife Troopers’ Wrangell post cited David Pluard, 64, from Washington, for failure to return his DE321 Etolin elk permit to ADFG as required. Pluard was issued a $110 citation in the District Court in Wrangell. June 3 Alaska Wildlife Troopers in Wrangell issued Edward Kalkins, 61, from Wrangell, a $110 citation for no escape rings o...
In a press release last Friday, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium announced it will officially move forward with formalizing an affiliation with the City and Borough of Wrangell regarding the future of its municipal hospital. The decision follows one reached unanimously by the Wrangell Assembly on June 12, and sets into motion a transfer of operations of Wrangell Medical Center to SEARHC. Initially, the regional provider will acquire the local hospital and assume its operational,...
Sydney L. Martin died on Fri., June 7, in Wrangell, Alaska. There will be a celebration of life breakfast on June 29 at 9:00 a.m. at the Senior Center. An obituary will follow....
The United States Forest Service announced recently that visitors will soon be able to request the daily permits for the Anan Wildlife Observatory this summer. Permits are required from July 5 - August 25 to visit the observatory. Outside that window, no permit is necessary. Four permits are set aside each day from the other allotments to accommodate last-minute planning, though they need to be requested for in person at the Wrangell Ranger District, and up to a week in advance. Requests can be...
Kids and their folks are encouraged to gear up this weekend for the seventh annual "Family Fishing Day" at Pats Lake midday Saturday. Put on cooperatively by the Forest Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Stikine Sportsmen Association, the annual gathering takes advantage of special regulations geared toward young anglers. During the third and fourth weekends of June each year, children aged 15 and under are allowed to use bait while trout fishing in Pats Lake. The usual size...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A Juneau man could face criminal charges after one of his wolf traps mortally wounded a black bear cub, Alaska State Troopers said. A group of hikers found the cub severely injured near the Ready Bouillon Creek in late May after it stepped into the trap which was illegally left out on Douglas Island, the Juneau Empire reported . The snare caught the cub around both hind legs and cut the bear almost all the way to the bone, said Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game determined that the c...
A power outage on June 13 came as a bit of a surprise to the community, turning off the juice across the island for more than half an hour. The unplanned cut came as technicians at Wrangell Municipal Light and Power were testing their diesel generators, ahead of the planned diesel run beginning Monday. The office explained some difficulties had been encountered while firing up one of the generators, taking the system offline. Power went out to all four of the island’s feeders during the midafternoon. The outage was relatively brief, with p...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Officials with the state and with Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, hope to avoid any confusion about voting in this year’s primary and general elections. Anchorage has moved to a vote-by-mail system for its local elections. However, the state has not gone that route and will conduct the Aug. 21 primary and Nov. 6 general elections as normal. That typically means voting in person. However, a voter also can request an absentee ballot, which can be returned in the mail one of the options the state offers for casting ballots....
Friends Katelynn Gillen, CharLee-Ann Seimears, Della Churchill and Aubrey Wynne, last week raised over $555 on their own through the sale of lemonade and handmade bracelets. The girls wanted to put their earnings toward a benefit account set up for the Doak family, which last week had been impacted by a fatal car accident. First Bank matched the girls’ funds 2:1 with a check for $1,100. Those interested in learning more about the account can consult a teller at First Bank....
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska regulators have delayed until August discussion of proposed rules for allowing onsite consumption of marijuana at certain shops. This is the second such delay this year. The previous delay followed the loss of a Marijuana Control Board member. The board is at full strength. However, the new member, Jeff Ankerfelt, did not attend this week’s meetings in Anchorage. Ankerfelt had said he would miss them to attend his daughter’s college graduation in California. Regulators have gone back and forth on onsite use, adopt...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Parts of southeast Alaska are experiencing drought conditions following a winter and spring with lackluster snowfall and rain, according to the National Weather Service. Ketchikan received 11.2 inches (28.5 centimeters) of precipitation in October and 7.6 inches (19.3 centimeters) in November, less than half the normal amounts expected for the rainiest months of the year, the Juneau Empire reported Wednesday. “This was the most significant drought in the wet season in Southeast Alaska in 40-plus years,’’ said Aaron Jacobs,...
The City and Borough Assembly took its next serious step in redirecting Wrangell Medical Center’s future on Tuesday, authorizing a resolution to pursue a strategic affiliation with Southeast Alaska Rural Health Consortium. Earlier this year the city and regional healthcare provider began to cooperatively explore a new approach to managing WMC, a municipally-run critical access hospital. The hospital has been experiencing a revenue crisis for several years, and even with additional funds from city reserves has remained low on operating cash. H...
A group of visiting AmeriCorps volunteers have been leaving their mark around Wrangell the past month, with the community being their last stop in a 10-month tour of service. Ten volunteers coming from all corners of the country have already been doing an assortment of projects for the community. They are part of a wider program which operates one of its five campuses out of Sacramento, California. "The program that we are in is the National Civilian Community Corps," explained Kara Riley, the...
June 13, 1918 A meeting of the local War Savings Stamps Committee will be held at the Town hall June 17, at 8 p.m. for the purpose of making arrangements and appointing sub committees to handle the War Savings Stamp drive of the 28th inst., regarding which a proclamation is published elsewhere in this paper. Everyone who wishes to take part in this, either as solicitors, contributors or otherwise, are invited to attend. We must keep the good work going. June 11, 1943 Frank Dufresne, Executive officer of the Alaska Game Commission, spent a day...
A bridgeside traffic accident was discovered Monday evening, one which resulted in two fatalities and left two more passengers critically injured. Rainie Doak was traveling with her three children northbound on Zimovia Highway late Sunday or early Monday morning. Doak is believed to have been at the wheel when the Ford Expedition lost control approaching the Pats Creek Bridge, about 12 miles south of Wrangell. The road approaches the bridge at an angle and conditions that evening had been wet....
Legislative session has ended, and now that I’m back in the district, I’d like to give you a brief overview of this year’s legislative actions that will impact Wrangell. As your state representative, I sponsored and passed three bills – “Commercial Fishing Loans,” “Mari-culture Revolving Loan Fund,” and “Dive Fishery Assessments” – that will support and enhance our fishing and mari-culture industries. HB 128, “Shellfish Enhancement Projects” was a fourth mari-culture industry related bill. It passed the House 37-2 and made it through Senate Fi...
The three-way royalty competition leading up to this year's July 4 celebrations has had a change of cast, Wrangell Chamber of Commerce announced last week. A regular feature of the local festivities, royalty candidates sell food and tickets to raise funds, which get divided between the Chamber's Independence Day fund and the contestants. Generally, contestants are high schoolers or young adults pledging their share toward a particular goal, such as continued education costs. Each year, the...
Following an estimated 14 hours of discussion over three separate workshops, members of the Wrangell City and Borough Assembly approved a budget for the 2019 fiscal year, which begins July 1. Getting there has not been an easy process, mulling over among other things a restructuring of how public facilities maintenance and the Public Works Department are arranged, proposed by the city manager as a cost saving measure. Under this proposal, Lisa Von Bargen envisioned a separate division within public works tasked with public maintenance and equip...
A Wrangell boy earned three more medals at his second showing at the Special Olympics Summer Games, held last weekend in Anchorage. A swimmer, Carter Hammer competed in a total of four events. For individual events he competed in the 25-yard butterfly, the 50-yard backstroke and 100-yard freestyle, finishing first in two. Coach Bruce McQueen reported Hammer had competed in the 50-yard freestyle relay as part of a combined team with other Ketchikan swimmers, edging out a Juneau team for gold...
Taking advantage of the fair weather, dozens of golfers hit the links at Muskeg Meadows over the weekend for a pair of tournaments. On June 8 the Stikine Sportsmen Association's annual tournament drew 35 participants for a best ball nine-hole. A team of three took first place with a net score of 19, starting from a handicap of 14, featuring Trevor Sande, John Smith and Dave Hansen. Also with 19 and a handicap of 14, runners up were Mike Ottesen, Tyler Gunn, Chuck Hay and Aaron Powell. In third...