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In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 11, 1913: Last week the Karen took a party consisting of Harry Gartley, E.E. Noble, K. Johnson, H. Coulter and Leo McCormack to the flats on a duck hunt. They didn't break the record but they did get storm bound behind High Island for four days, they say the waves were rolling so high that the Karen was doing the submarine act. They have not decided which one of the party was the Jonah; sh-h-h methinks Leo Knows… On Tuesday last, Stikine Tribe No. 5 I.O.R.M. elected the following o...
The borough assembly’s special energy committee voted 7-0 Monday to send two options and a recommendation to the borough assembly meeting Tuesday night. The options represent borough manager Jeff Jabusch’s assessment of possible futures for the Thomas Bay Power Authority. The options, delineated by the committee in discussion at a previous meeting, amount to a list of positives and negatives for either the City and Borough of Wrangell or Southeast Alaska Power Agency running the Tyee Lake hydroelectric facility. A two-page memo drafted by Jab...
Superior Court Judge Trevor Stephens sentenced William Boon, 25, of Wrangell, to 18 months unsuspended prison time for two counts of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance on Nov. 18. Officials originally charged Boon with eight counts of varying degrees of misconduct involving a controlled substance, ranging from second to fifth. Under a plea deal agreement reached with the district attorney’s office, Boon plead guilty to two counts in exchange for the dismissal of the others, and the modification of one count from second t...
Picking the right Christmas tree can be surprisingly difficult, even in the middle of the largest U.S. national forest. Officials from Wrangell Light and Power and the Department of Public Works scour woods, roads, and occasionally back yards in search the perfect tree year-round. The perfect tree is along a road, preferably a wide road (personnel have taken trees from the road near the city reservoirs in the past, meaning the large truck which carries the tree has to back in and then back out...
Wrangellites packed into the Stikine Native Organization building Tuesday night to partake in traditional native foods. The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium's Traditional Foods Project hosted a Unity Dinner, complete with traditional dancing, traditional foods, and native dress. The meal was the third time this year the program has collected the native organizations, and assistant Ken Hoyt ticked off the types of traditional foods local chefs, hunters, foragers, and others managed to...
A circuit court judge sentenced Robert W. Rinehart to a year and 70 days prison time and four years probation Nov. 18. The court convicted Rinehart, 51, of Wrangell, in September on two counts of Class C Felony Assault by threat of death or injury, and a single count of Class B Misdemeanor Criminal Mischief, and a single count of Class A Misdemeanor 4th degree reckless injury. Rinehart admitted two counts of Class B Misdemeanor parole violations. The jury dismissed an additional reckless injury...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 4, 1913: The school entertainment given by the school children at Red Men's Hall Friday evening was a great success in every way. The program was fine and carried off without a hitch and the pupils did themselves and their teachers great credit. The entertainment was a success financially as the school cleared about $50 which will be used as a library fund. Jack Walsh, manager of the Home Bakery, installed a fine large baking oven last week. The oven is the latest thing out in that line...
Organizers of the annual Thanksgiving food basket giveaway called the 2013 chapter of the program "record-breaking" Thursday. In all, the community-funded program gave out $3699.88 worth of food to 89 families (give or take some latecomers who might have straggled in later), according to figures provided by Don and Bonnie Roher, who have helped organize the program for the last 11 years. That means 281 members of the Wrangell community will feast on turkey, green beans, fruit cocktail,...
Wrangell Medical Center board members voted 7-0 to approve the hospital’s 2012 financials, and discussed progress on a new hospital. The meeting was otherwise routine and brief, with two of the board’s nine members joining by phone. According to hospital documents, the hospital’s total assets have increased from $9,168,445 in the year ending June 30, 2012 to $10,462,459 in the year ending June 30, 2013. That increase, coupled with other asset increases totaling about $100,000, amounts to about 15.9 percent in the hospital’s total assets....
The first snowfall of the year struck last week, blanketing Wrangell in white stuff. While the poor man’s answer to the eternal question of how much snow could be as simple as looking out the window, authorities in Wrangell have been without specific snowfall data for months. Contracted observers for the National Weather Service collect rain totals at the airport. However, the service relies on a network of volunteer observers to collect snow totals, according to Kimberley Vaughan, an observation program leader and forecaster with the S...
While one part of the news was certainly somber at the informal end-of-year Outfitter Guide Meeting at the Wrangell Ranger District, the tone was light-hearted. First, the somber news. The Wrangell Ranger District faces a 30 percent cut to its recreation budget in preliminary figures. Ranger Bob Dalrymple cautioned that if that number were to hold – although he’s seen budget cuts fail to materialize in the past – the Anan Bear Observatory could be shuttered. The observatory is a marquee attraction for tourism in Wrangell, and drew 2,873 visit...
It didn't matter what Ben Florschutz might have wanted. He wasn't going to get a sucking chest wound. "No chest wounds tonight!" said Fire Department administrator Dorianne Curley, putting the kibosh on Florschutz's plans. The wounds in this case were thankfully all simulated, though you wouldn't know it with a casual glance at Wrangell High senior Hannah Armstrong's left arm, which dribbled fake blood from a fake gunshot wound as she cradled it in the auditorium of the Nolan Center Thursday...
When he was nine months old, Spencer Petticrew’s parents tried to give him a single pea. The pea didn’t quite make it into his mouth, but only brushed his lips, his mother, Sherri Pettcrew, said. However, Spencer turned bright red within 30 seconds, and started having difficulty breathing. The Petticrews rushed their son to an emergency room, where doctors determined that Spencer had a severe food allergy. “His entire face turned red, he got hives all over his body and he couldn’t breathe and we had to go to the emergency room,” she said. “It...
Borough officials placed two items related to water use atop the 2014-15 capital budget request list. The list itself has yet to be completed. Borough assembly members said at the Nov. 12 assembly meeting they would work to revise items lower on the list, and possibly break one big-ticket item – the purchase and development of the former Mill property -- up into phases, which might be more palatable to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which plays a role in evaluating the r...
Coming months could bring big changes to the way the Wrangell Unit of the Tongass National Forest operates, officials said. The Wrangell Unit is looking at an approximately 30 percent cut to its total recreation budget this year, said Ranger Bob Dalrymple. At that rate, some 60 percent of remote access cabins (cabins which require a helicopter or boat for access) would be up for possible elimination, and officials would have to seriously re-evaluate — among other things — operations at the Anan Bear Observatory. That may come as pot...
In the Sentinel 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 18, 1938: The Hospital Auxiliary staged a very successful benefit for the Bishop Rowe General Hospital on Armistice Day when 65 persons registered between the hours of 3 to 5 and attended the annual silver tea, postponed from last May. Perhaps the greatest surprise to the tea patrons was the fact that quantities of garden flowers, particularly snapdragons, had been saved from the heavy frost of preceding days and were used to center the daintily arranged tea tables and wherever a vase could be...
Bar and liquor-store owners praised a possible revision in Wrangell’s liquor laws this week. Revisions to liquor sale ordinances approved on first reading by the borough assembly Nov. 12 would allow alcohol to be sold on election days in the borough, and also standardize the hours of operation for any business selling alcohol throughout the calendar year. As borough code currently stands, businesses selling alcohol may open between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. during the fall and winter only by special permit, and not at all on election days. Current law...
The borough's energy committee asked borough administrator Jeff Jabusch to provide the borough assembly with data-driven assessments of options for the future of the Thomas Bay Power Authority. The committee's Monday meeting was largely an informal affair, with most decisions being made by consensus instead of role-call votes. Committee members also honed in on the options for the TBPA, which has been stuck in limbo since the Petersburg borough council voted to withhold their portion of funding...
Stikine Middle School: Honor Roll: Sixth grade: Madison Blackburn, Karri Buness, Kaylyn Easterly, Laura Helgeson, Adriana Larrabee, Skyler Lofftus, Tasha Massin, Trevor Miller, Lillian O’Brien, Kody Paul, Hank Voltz, Hunter Wiederspohn. Seventh grade: Riley Blatchley, Helen Decker, Kellan Eagle, Abigail Gerald, Cori Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Issacc Mingming, Dillon Rooney. Eighth grade: Jonathan Barratt, Caleb Groshong, Kayla Hay, Kiara Meissner, Racquel Mingming, Tymon Teat, Devin Till, Samantha Townsend. Honorable Mention: Sixth grade: M...
Wrangell Oil, Inc. officially ceased to exist Friday. Bill Privett, the current owner of the town’s multi-generational oil concern (and, in the interests of full disclosure, the Sentinel’s landlord) sold his company to Seward-based Petro Marine Services for an undisclosed sum. The sale is a win-win for the community, based largely on the economies of the scale Petro Marine can provide, Privett said. The Wrangell Distribution plant joined Petro Marine’s Alaskan plants in Ketchikan, Petersburg, Kodiak, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Whittier, Anchorage,...
Wrangell High’s drama, debate and forensics team drew mixed results at the season’s lone home meet. Kyla Teat and Kaylauna Churchill placed third and delivered a command performance pantomime titled “Doctor’s Office,” the highest honor awarded to Wolves debaters over the course of the two-day event. Ben Florschutz earned another third place in extemporaneous commentary, a category in which presenters have a limited amount of time to research and present on a topic. Florschutz also placed fifth in the category of original oratory, during wh...
