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ASSEMBLY Name: Julie Decker Age: 40 Occupation: self employed – commercial fishing and seafood development What background or experience do you have that qualifies you to be an Assembly member? I have served on Wrangell’s Economic Development Committee for the past seven years. I have also served on the Board of Directors of the Southeast Conference, which is the economic development organization that represents the municipalities and businesses of Southeast Alaska. Why are you running for the...
Brian O’Connor has assumed the reporting position at the Wrangell Sentinel. The 2005 graduate of Marquette University has four years experience in the newspaper industry, working for newspapers in Kenosha, Wisc, Beaver Dam, Wisc and Bristol, Va. He provided elections coverage for the Associated Press in Milwaukee, Wisc. for several years. O’Connor has been a language instructor and supervisor for the Office of Education in Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea and later switched to serve six sch...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly will likely travel to Wrangell September 10 to discuss with its assembly the viability of Thomas Bay Power Authority. According to a memo sent out by Wrangell Interim Borough Manager Jeff Jabusch, the two municipalities created TBPA to jointly maintain and operate the Tyee Hydroelectric power plant. Southeast Alaska Power Agency, SEAPA, owns the facility and pays for its operations and maintenance. There’s an additional expense associated with the TBPA budget that the two boroughs traditionally split. It’s cal...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Haida carvers Joe and TJ Young arrived in Juneau last Monday to begin work on the first of two totem poles for Juneau’s Gajaa Hit building on Willoughby Avenue. The two poles will replace originals currently on site at Gajaa Hit erected in 1977 to honor the Raven and Eagle clans of the Aak’w Kwáan Tlingit. For the next several months, the Young brothers will work on the Raven pole at the Sealaska building downtown, offering an opportunity for locals to observe two of the state’s most highly regarded young carvers at wor...
September 22, 1913: Richard Bushell, Jr., paid Wrangell a visit and after attending to professional duties decided to pass his time shooting ducks on the flats. He chartered a boat and bought a hundred rounds of ammunition and struck off towards the famous shooting grounds accompanied by local sportsmen. The Editor's companions had little trouble in bagging their limit; but the poor Editor, after tramping down the grass for a full 10 hours returned to the launch with 2 sickly ducks, one of which Harry Gartley claims to have crippled just...
PETERSBURG – A laundry list of charges were filed against Brandon Estes, 20, and Joshua Franklin, 26, during their arraignment August 29. The men are being accused of breaking into multiple Petersburg businesses last week along with the theft of cash and items at those locations. Franklin received eleven felony and four misdemeanor charges including burglary, theft and criminal mischief. Estes racked up 13 felony and four misdemeanor charges of the same nature. Police received reports of break-ins and burglaries throughout the day on August 2...
PETERSBURG – Petersburg School District Superintendent Dr. Rob Thomason was awarded a Superintendent of the Year Award last week. Bruce Johnson, Executive Director for the Association of Alaskan Superintendents, presented the award to Thomason during a welcome back school board meeting. “It is my great honor to announce that your superintendent, Dr. Rob Thomason, is Alaska’s 2014 Superintendent of the year,” Johnson said to an applauding crowd. Johnson said a selection committee sought nominations from across the state. Nominations could b...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two brothers from Craig have been rescued after family members reported them overdue from a deer-hunting trip in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island. David Duncan, 38, and Berton Duncan, 24, were rescued early Sunday by the Coast Guard after one of the brothers shot a flare gun. The brothers were supposed to have returned from their trip Friday evening. Alaska State Troopers say the brothers told rescuers that foggy conditions caused them to become disoriented. Neither brother was i...
PETERSBURG – After the warm weather that contributed to the death of more than 1000 King Salmon in Blind Slough earlier this summer, Crystal Lake Hatchery hasn’t incubated as many eggs as it would have liked. Kevin Chase, Crystal Lake Hatchery Manager, said it finished its third and final round of egg takes from its King Salmon return yesterday morning. “Our goal is a million and a half eggs,” Chase said. “Now we’re at 600,000 to 700,000.” Crystal Lake will receive eggs from other hatcheries, i...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Federal officials and Alaska nonprofits are rushing to set up a health insurance marketplace required under the federal Affordable Care Act by the Oct. 1 deadline. Alaska is among 27 states that have refused to set up marketplaces, also known as exchanges, where the uninsured can shop for coverage. In states opting out of setting up the exchanges, the federal government is stepping in. The United Way and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium are each receiving a $300,000 federal grant to hire “navigators” to hel...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A state court hopes to have challenges to Alaska’s redistricting plan resolved within 90 days. Superior Court Judge Michael McConahy issued an initial briefing schedule last Wednesday. He said if testimony is required, he anticipated setting a trial week on short notice. McConahy also consolidated challenges to the plan brought by two Fairbanks-area residents and the state Democratic Party. Attorneys for the Alaska Redistricting Board have asked that the challenges be dismissed. McConahy’s timeframe suggests a dec...
PETERSBURG — Borough Assembly and Petersburg Medical Center hospital board members discussed the financial state of the hospital and funding assistance for capital projects from the borough last Thursday morning. The discussion was also directed at how the public will perceive a potential tax levy to help fund a hospital that has remained financially independent of the city, now the borough, throughout its existence. “The public has a healthy skepticism on the borough’s spending habits,” assembly member John Hoag said. Hoag referenced high co...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Sealaska Heritage Institute officials are looking for Northwest coast Native artists and fashion designers to submit original works for a fashion show next year at an auction in Juneau. Officials say the fashion show will be a key feature at the Tinaa (Tin-AH’) Art Auction scheduled for Feb. 1. The deadline to apply as a participant in the fashion show is Oct. 7. The art auction is a fundraiser for construction of the planned Walter Soboleff Center, an educational facility named after late Tlingit leader Dr. Walter S...
SITKA, Alaska (AP) - A dead juvenile humpback whale has been found near Sitka. The 30-foot long whale was located Thursday near the western shore of Kruzof Island. A fishing vessel notified Jeff Feldpausch, the resource protection director of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska. The tribe and a local whale biologist collected samples from the dead animal, which were sent to a NOAA lab to determine the cause of death. The biologist, Jan Straley, says it appears the whale had been dead for a while, and there were some post-mortem bite marks on...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Juneau police say a 35-foot whale-watching boat was taken out for an unauthorized spin recently. Witnesses called police after seeing two intoxicated people stumble down a dock and get on board the K’eet, a vessel used by Juneau Whale Watching. Witnesses also say the vessel was doing “doughnuts” in Auke Bay. Coast Guardsmen responded and took control of the boat. The boarding crew described the man and woman as drunk and naked. Police say 27-year-old Joshua Carrieri, a crewman on the vessel, was charged with driving while...
The Wrangell assembly approved a resolution requesting grant funding with the hopes of getting more water to a system that is often tapped. Jeff Jabusch, Interim Borough Manager, said there’s plenty of water but it’s not getting treated fast enough to meet the demand of the community. “By the end of the day, often times they’re getting down to where there’s just a few feet left in each one of them,” Jabusch said. “If we were to run out or if there were a major fire or if the canneries wanted to expand or any of those things we would have so...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly approved a controversial $100,000 reimbursement during its August 27 meeting after services had been rendered. The reimbursement goes to Alaska Island Community Services to offset expenses incurred after it relocated its clinic to a new building site. Wrangell’s previous borough manager Timothy Rooney negotiated with AICS in 2009 to relocate its clinic, for the sake of convenience, next to where the Wrangell Medical Center would build its new facility—the Alpine site. In an e-mail sent to the assembly in 2011, Roon...
PETERSBURG — An entangled humpback whale continues to remain snared in a gill net despite a two day effort last weekend to free the animal. Don Holmes with the Marine Mammal Center in Petersburg received a call Friday morning about the snared whale in Frederick Sound. He and other volunteers were granted permission from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association to assess the situation. “We found that the whale was completely wrapped on the flukes with the lead line draping across of the back...
September 18, 1913: The Norwegian steamer Karen cut the rates between Wrangell and Petersburg so a great many members of the Arctic Brotherhood Camp of Wrangell and friends took advantage of the low rates and attended the dance given by the Petersburg Camp Saturday evening. The party reached Petersburg about six o'clock and were met at the dock by the Petersburg Brass Band and the townspeople who presented the visitors with a large key to the “Welcome and Hospitality” of the city. The music rendered at the dance was exceptionally fine. The hal...
Doug Ely, standing before Judge Trevor Stephens on Monday, was sentenced to 55-years in jail. During a week-long jury trial held in June, Doug Ely was found guilty of two counts of First Degree Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and one count of Second Degree Sexual Abuse of a Minor which was merged into Count One. Ely’s complete sentence is 55-years with twelve and a half suspended and fifteen years of probation. He will also be required to register as a sex offender for life after being released on t...
On August 19 Wrangell Deputy Magistrate Leanna J. Splinter adjudicated the following case: Daniel Arthur Gonzalez-Fawcett, 24, was found guilty of Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight. He was sentenced to probation for one year and ordered to pay $550 in fines and surcharges. On August 20 Wrangell Deputy Magistrate Leanna J. Splinter adjudicated the following case: Katherine C. Westrope, age 18, was found guilty of Drive In Violation Of Instruction Permit. She was ordered to pay $150 in fines and surcharges....
PETERSBURG – The Petersburg Borough continues to deal with an aggressive sea lion that’s been bothering people in the harbors all summer. Mayor Mark Jensen wrote a letter August 9 in response to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s lack of assistance in the matter. “We find it unfortunate that the National Marine Fisheries Service is unwilling to take any active role in removing this threat to our children, citizens, economic base and our quality of life,” Jensen wrote in the letter. Ha...
To the Editor: Wrangell Lions Club would like to thank the people of Wrangell who continue to recycle their aluminum through the Lions club collection boxes around town. If you have not taken notice of them, you can find collection boxes at Bobs’ IGA, City Market, Wells Fargo, Alaska Marine Highway (ferry terminal), Muskeg Meadows and Alaska State Housing Authority. We appreciate the support of these businesses. If you have larger pieces of aluminum to recycle we are able to make arrangements to take that also. The funds that are collected f...