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A vehicle lost control near Shoemaker Bay Monday morning and took out about 260 feet of chain-link fencing around a playground. In a pickup truck on Zimovia Highway northward toward town, a driver reportedly lost control after hitting a patch of ice and slid off the road. "Basically it was black ice," explained Chief Doug McCloskey of the Wrangell Police Department. A witness reported the accident at around 9 a.m. and the driver remained at the scene until police responded. He was cooperative,...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 26, 1916: The Alaska Native Brotherhood gave a big dance at the Rink last Monday evening, which was well attended. The dance was given for the benefit of their band and they raised a good sum to help things along. The Photoshow closed its doors and Manager Richmond donated the use of the Wrangell Orchestra to help things along. The music for the dance was furnished by the band and the orchestra alternating. The boys are trying very hard to get a good band going and they certainly deserve...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 20, 1916: Owing to the fact that matters seem to progressing rather slowly in regard to the Dry Strait survey, Mr. F. Matheson, who has the matter in charge, recently wrote to Delegate Wickersham regarding the affair and received an answer which states, “On December 8th I wrote to the Secretary of War asking about the report of the Engineer on the matter of Dry Strait improvement and on the 14th he wrote me saying that he had not yet received it from the District Engineer’s Office.” An en...
Principals Honor Roll: Jade Balansag, Liana Carney, Laura Helgeson, Jing O’Brien, Sophie O’Brien. Honor Roll: Samantha Acuna, Jimmy Baggen, Jamie Early, Tyson Messmer, Kaydin Mill, Mercedes Morgan, Ryan Rooney, Jacob Dow, Aaliyah Messmer, Bruce Smith, Madison Blackburn, Hannah Brown, John Buness, Kaylyn Easterly, Tasha Massin, Trevor Miller, Hunter Wiederspohn. Honorable Mention: Emma Martinsen, Daniel McIntyre, Elizabeth McIntyre, Kendra Meissner, Rowen Wiederspohn, Logan Ritchie, Karri Buness, Coby Holder, Adriana Larrabee, Skyler Lof...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 13, 1916: Alaska seems to be in the grip of one of the fiercest blizzards that has ever swept the coast. All last night and today the Stikine has howled her defiance and since daybreak the thermometer has steadily fallen. The government register at the Customs House at seven this morning was three degrees, at twelve noon it was five below and at six tonight it read ten below. Several other thermometers at different places in the city register differently but the majority are close to that...
Victoria Ingram has been placed on the Dean’s list for the fall term at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Ore....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 6, 1916: Ase Hollenbeck and Roy Murphy arrived from the logging camp of Jimmie Green’s last Tuesday. The logging camp is situated at the head of Burnett Inlet and to get out, the men were forced to cut a channel for the gasboat through ice three inches thick, it taking them two days to get out of the inlet. They report good progress at the camp as they have a hundred thousand feet of logs in the water and two hundred thousand fell in the woods ready to be taken to the water. They will l...
In the Sentinel 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 27, 1940: About 35 shooters and a few spectators turned out Sunday for the first annual turkey shoot of the Stikine Sportsmen’s Association of Wrangell, keen rivalry making it a highly successful affair. Seven turkeys were knocked off by the sharp-eyed crackshots, the birds going to Lloyd Benjamin, Chet Steear, Chad Wyatt, Howard Messinger, Cliff Kilkenny, Lloyd Ripley and Elvin Lindsley. Some very good scores were shot. The leather medal for missing the target entirely went to President Fred H...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 23, 1915: The Wrangell Public School held their Christmas exercises this afternoon, a Christmas tree in the primary room, a tree and program in the intermediate room and a party in the higher grades. Mr. Donald Sinclair presented the school with a crate of oranges and a box of apples, which were very gratefully received by all. The children are now out on Christmas vacation until Jan. 3. December 20, 1940: “To my people, our brothers and neighbors, may the spirit of Christmas fill you w...
Santa said he was looking for an elf to hire at the North Pole. I think we have some great applicants in Mrs. Angerman’s 2nd grade! Santa, I think you should hire me because, I’m good at gift wrapping I have been doing it for years . Love, William Santa, I think you should hire me. I can bwild wooden cars. I will make wooded hover car. I have made wooden car. I will make them every day. I will paint the wooden cars. My favorite toy is a car. Love, Lucas Santa, I think you should hire me because Im the best at not telling others what their pre...
The story of Christmas is a familiar one. Mary is visited by an angel, Jesus is born in a barn, a feeding trough used as a crib, wise men visiting, and shepherds proclaiming. This birth is celebrated around the world even after 2000 years have passed. Many at the time however, missed it. You can see why… born to a seemingly insignificant couple, no room for them in the inn, the family forced to become fugitives for the first few years of Jesus’ life, this event slipped past many. But scripture tells us this was No Ordinary Birth. What the world...
“Seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:33, NIV June and I lived for six years on the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, a lovely tropical Pacific island 200 miles above the equator. The Pohnpeian word for Christmas is Christmas, a word the local people had adopted into their language from the English when they converted from their animistic religion to Christianity. The word Christmas originally meant Christ’s Mass. That is, the mass that was celebrated in honor of Chris...
My wish is for everyone to have a great life. I hope people will be good to each other, and not bad. I am thankful for freedom, so I can go to school and learn all I can. I am thankful for my teacher because she’s the BEST! My family takes care of me and I am thankful for that. My wish is for everyone to have good friends, a good school, and a good family. I wish everyone in the world a very Merry Christmas! by Johnny Allen I am thankful for all of my family including my mom, dad, brother, grandmas, and all my cousins. They help take care of m...