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The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce will take over administration of a long-running Wrangell Scholarship program this year. The scholarship awards a Wrangell High School student $500 each year for four years, for a total value of $2,000. The program had been managed by the Emblem Club for the last 60 years. The scholarship is funded by the purchase of $10 calendars displaying the birthdays of local citizens. “Everything that we make we put back into the program,” said Cyni Waddington. “It’s kind of a local institution. People look forward to it e...
Impressive transitional defense, pulse-raising fourth-quarter play and crisp passing weren't enough for the Lady Wolves to overcome the Miss Chiefs. The Wrangell High School girls' basketball team lost two to the visiting Metlakatla squad last weekend. The Miss Chiefs took Friday night's game 46-27, and edged the Lady Wolves 40-20 in the Saturday night sequel. Head Coach Edna Abella-Nore sounded a little like an alarm clock, based on the number of times she shouted "Wake up!" from the sidelines...
More than 200 people met Saturday with local organizations at the Wrangell Cooperative Association's first membership rally. Representatives from the Association, the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program, Alaska Island Community Services and Tlingit-Haida registered, updated, collected and distributed information for 210 people by the end of the four-hour event at the Stikine Native Organizations building. Organizers from the WCA's Membership Committee had worked on organizing the...
Between 30 and 50 yachts will depart Seattle sometime in June and arrive in Wrangell June 17. The yachts will participate in the annual Salty Dog Rally, sponsored by Boating Puget Sound, a website dedicated to yachting in the Seattle area. Once they arrive, yachters will be welcomed by local Tlingit drummers and dancers and be feted in a gala dinner with the mayor. Borough officials estimate between 60 and 150 people will participate, though they won’t have official numbers until registration for the event concludes in April. Members of the W...
A vessel sunk near Wrangell Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The 60-foot Silver Bay 2 went down at anchor tied to another tug, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Jeremy Dawkins. No one was aboard when the Silver Bay 2 went down off shore from the former mill property. Coast Guard officials were notified because of potential environmental impacts from the ship’s sinking, and conducted no search and rescue operations associated with the sinking, Dawkins said. Company officials will likely wait until the w...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 22, 1914: There was an accident at the public school last night. The steam heat is on the hummer today and the school is out of business. Apparently there was a fire started in the furnace and after the boiler was hot, the cold water turned on and the whole front section burst. This is a very unfortunate occurrence to happen at this time of the year when the heat is an absolute necessity. Oscar Carlson and Ole Johnson are building two moveable stations 5x5x6 feet to hold the extinguishers...
Tuesday, January 7 Avery Nore, 20, appeared before Wrangell Magistrate Chris Ellis on charges of Minor Consuming Alcohol. The Defendant entered a guilty plea. He was sentenced to contact AICS to complete screening, ordered to pay $210 in fines and surcharges and was placed on probation for one year. Nicholas Lewis, 20, appeared before Wrangell Magistrate Chris Ellis on charges of Repeat Minor Consuming Alcohol and a Petition to Revoke Probation from previous charges. The Defendant entered a guilty plea. He was sentenced to complete 48 hours of...
Officials from Trident Seafoods have received a conditional use permit request for the construction of a new bunkhouse. The company received the permit by a 5-0 vote of the borough planning and zoning commission Jan. 9. They also received a 5-0 vote on a variance permit for off-street parking at the same location, near the intersection of Case and Front streets. The facility will house between 40 and 80 people at a time. Trident officials hope to conclude construction on the new bunkhouse June 1, in time for the majority of summer salmon season...
The girls’ basketball team lost twice to the Lady Vikings this weekend in Petersburg. The Petersburg side edged Wrangell 49-36 Friday, then the Lady Vikings notched a 31-point win Saturday to make it a winless weekend for the Lady Wolves. “Friday night’s game was really good,” said head coach Edna Abella-Nore. “We had figured it out if we made every single layup that game, we would have won by a point.” Wrangell may have caught Petersburg by surprise Friday night, Abella-Nore said. “Petersburg just came out stronger (Saturday),...
Orin F. Piatt, 75, died of cancer December 21, 2013 at his home in Soldotna surrounded by his family. Piatt was born May 26, 1938 in Orofino, Idaho to Bill and Tana Piatt. Just a month shy of his ninth birthday, his parents moved the family to Wrangell, Alaska. Taking a train to Seattle from Lewiston, Idaho they boarded a steam ship to Wrangell. One can just imagine Orin's eyes lighting up at his first sight of the ocean and it's pretty safe to assume that his lifelong love of boats was born at...
The article “Sentinel looks back on 2013” incorrectly stated who paid a $250,000 settlement ordered by a Wrangell judge. The Wrangell Medical Center’s insurance company paid that amount, not former CEO Noel Rea. The Sentinel regrets the error....
The sound of a .45-caliber handgun going off indoors lands like a blow on the ears. It can be felt through the diaphragm and rib cage, through protective glass. The sound echoed off the walls of the James Barker Memorial shooting range Thursday, the first night of the regularly scheduled season at the range in the basement of the public safety building. The range opens Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. through January and February. Tuesdays are for pellet guns, .22-caliber handguns and rifles....
The borough assembly voted 5-0 Tuesday night to approve a no-bid design contract with Juneau-based Corvus Design. The contract allots $11,372 from a $35,000 state grant to renovate heritage harbor for that purpose. Port commissioners previously said the contract was designed to be no-bid in order to avoid a prolonged bidding process which might stretch past the June 30 expiration date for the grant. The money “is part of the starting of this thing?” assembly member James Stough asked harbormaster Greg Meissner. “Is that what this is?” The goa...
If water temperatures typically in the low to mid 40's won't deter you, what's a little rain or a high tide? About 50 enthusiastic swimmers waded into the sea near Shoemaker Park to celebrate New Year's Day and participate in the annual Polar Bear Swim. For some, the annual ritual is simply something to do on a day when many Wrangell businesses are traditionally closed. For others, the swim marks the start of something wonderful together. Erica and Adam Tlachac took their first swim together...
The School board voted 5-0 Monday to hire an interim principal for Evergreen Elementary School for the rest of the year. The board also voted 5-0 to separate the positions of elementary school principal and superintendent, held by Rich Rhodes since the beginning of this school year, and to retain the services of the Association of Alaska School Boards to aid the search for a replacement superintendent. The board voted down 4-1, with Krissy Smith the lone dissenter, a motion that would have hired a lead teacher at Evergreen to provide...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 8, 1914: Today at two o'clock the case of the United States vs. Chief Shakes in a complaint being made by A. Lemieux against Chief Shakes for criminal trespass on property supposed to be owned by Lemieux but claimed by Shakes was up for trial in the Commissioner's Court. Chas Ingersoll represented Chief Shakes and Richard Bushell the prosecution, upon motion from the attorney for the defendant the case was dismissed. According to the ruling made, no person can hold the title to Indian land...
Alumni from as far away as Denver descended on the Wrangell High School gym floor to take on the Lady Wolves in the annual alumni game Jan. 3. The event featured a half-court contest, a baked goods silent auction, and the game itself, in which a motley crew of alumni and quasi-alumni (head coach Edna Abella-Nore contributed critical passing and outside shooting at points, though she attended Kodiak High School) thrashed the varsity squad 60-16. Despite the fact that the game had nothing but...
Representatives from the WCA’s membership community are hoping for a big turnout this weekend. A membership rally scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday could provide a needed boost to local tribal enrollment. The Wrangell tribe is moving toward photo identifications for its members, which will assist local members in applying for their exemption to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, said Apryl Hutchinson, the membership committee chair. A representative from AICS may be on hand to answer questions about t...
The State Department of Fish and Game has set the regulations for non-pelagic rockfish for Southeast waters. The regulations remained unchanged from last year’s season, which pertains only to non-pelagic, or deepwater rockfish, said Petersburg-Wrangell Area Management Biologist Doug Fleming. “It appears to be for all purposes pretty much the same as last year,” he said. The regulations for all Southeast waters are as follows: All non-pelagic rockfish caught must be retained until the bag limit is reached. Persons sport fishing from a chart...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two adult Alaskans died from the flu in the past week, according to state health officials. The deaths are the first to be reported during Alaska’s 2013-14 influenza season and the first since new rules requiring health care facilities to report adult flu deaths to the state took effect in late December. Before, Alaska only tracked deaths among children. The state has not been notified of any child deaths so far this flu season. “People think, ‘Oh it’s just the flu,’” said Dr. Brian Yablon, a state epidemiolog...
A Sitka-based contractor working with the Alaska Community Development Corporation will conduct hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of winter preparations on local homes. A six-man crew from Alaska SafeTech industries will work in, outside, and on top of local houses to prepare them for the winter. Between 30 and 35 local residents have already elected to have their houses weatherized and have registered ahead of time, according to SafeTech president Ron Waldron. The crew arrived and began...
PETERSBURG – The Petersburg Borough Sanitation Department has set Feb. 4 to be the start date of the new comingled voluntary recycling program. Residents who want to participate must call Public Works at 772-4430 to sign up. Once that’s done, sanitation staff will drop off blue bags, free of charge, at residences and businesses during the week of Jan. 20. Current residents who already practice curbside recycling will be automatically transferred into the new program. After the initial rollout of the recycling program, free bags will be availab...
SEATTLE (AP) — With the planet’s polar regions changing faster than ever before in human history, the University of Washington is launching a new initiative to boost research in the Arctic and prepare students for a world where melting ice is opening new opportunities - and posing new threats. Under the Future of Ice program, the university will hire eight scientists and faculty members and offer the country’s first Arctic studies minor outside of Alaska. The inaugural course, which starts this month, filled up in less than two weeks. “The...