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Secretaries and Administrators returned to work August 5. Teachers will return for in-service training on August 19 -20. August 21 will be a teacher work day and students will return to school on Thursday, August 22nd. The State has tasked the school district with adopting and implementing the New Alaska State Standards. It’s a pretty rigorous adoption. An example is kindergarten students were required to count to 20. Starting this year, by the end of the year, kindergarten students will be required to count to 200. Not only that, but they w... Full story
A fire destroyed the Allen mill site on Tuesday, July 30, leaving Mike Allen’s business venture a smoking heap of twisted metal and burnt lumber – and saw the largest response from the Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department in recent memory. According to WVFD Fire Chief Tim Buness the fire began in the early afternoon and saw a quick response given the distance to the fire from the Zimovia substation and the Fire Hall. “We received the call at 2:08 p.m. and twelve minutes later the first engin... Full story
A Wrangell woman is alleging she was fined by the US Forest Service for conducting a business on federal land during an excursion she made out the road last month with a group of children. Marilyn Mork, who runs Auntie’s Daycare Service, said that on June 19 she was taking six children to play at Middle Ridge when she discovered that one of her employees had taken the children to a boat near one of the new trails in the area. Mork said she immediately had the children removed from the area b... Full story
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 28, 1913: The School Board is looking for the teachers for the ensuing year on one of the first boats. Owing to the fact that the teachers of last year, Mrs. Burke and Miss Prichett and Miss Haley, found it impossible to return at a late date caused some anxiety among the school board but the positions have been filled with a staff of teachers who have the recommendations of the University of Washington which make it sure that we are getting the right people for the right situation. The...
The 2013 Bearfest celebration came roaring back to Wrangell last Wednesday as the Shtax’Heen Kwaan dancers presented a moving and eloquent recitation of traditional Tlingit dance and language – and fed the nearly 60 visitors with fresh baked and smoked salmon dishes at the Chief Shakes Tribal House. Wrangell Cooperative Association president Tim Gillen said the sharing of food is important to the Natives of Southeast Alaska as a way of keeping ancient Tlingit culture alive. “From my persp... Full story
A series of capital projects led the way in Borough Manager Tim Rooney’s final report to the Borough Assembly last week as he highlighted the improvements on-going or planned in the Borough. Starting off, Rooney informed the Assembly about a number of projects related to the city’s Harbor Department, including upgrades at the Marine Service Center pier. “Pool Engineering has begun work on the pier upgrades and good progress is being made,” Rooney wrote. “The two new batter piles have been driv... Full story
On Aug. 6 the City and Borough of Wrangell will have a new interim Borough Manager to fill the spot left by the departing Tim Rooney – and it’s a familiar face to everyone in town. The Borough Assembly appointed Jeff Jabusch, who currently sits as the finance director for the city, to the top municipal spot last week in a unanimous vote, though Assembly member Ernie Christian was not present. Jabusch, who previously served as acting manager when Rooney or other past managers were out of town, sa... Full story
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 21, 1913: Dr. Shurick of the Shurick Drug and Jewelry Company says the money is coming in so fast that the old register wouldn't hold it so he had to get a new one and while he was at it got the best, of course. The new one is a National and every time you ring up you get a receipt which are redeemable at the rate of $1 in cash for every $20 worth of receipts from that machine. August 12, 1938: The Aleutian, scheduled to arrive at Wrangell at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, was two hours late....
Kyle Clayton, 28, has joined the Petersburg Pilot and Wrangell Sentinel as staff reporter, residing in Petersburg. He arrived last week from Bethel, Alaska. Prior to that he was a reporter, producer and anchor for WFIU/WTIU in Bloomington, Ind. From 2003 to 2007 he served as a combat medic for the United States Army where he was deployed to Germany, Kuwait and Iraq. In June 2013 he received his B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington and was named to the Dean’s List. Clayton e...
The People and Place Campaign has come to Wrangell, with a pair of locals taking part in its stewardship principals in the region. The campaign is a program that is funded through private foundations and non-profits to maximize local benefits and build capacity within a community. Currently there are two individuals in Wrangell that the People and Place program is funding – Angie Eldred, working with the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition, and Erik Wortman, working with Southeast Alaska C...
On Wednesday, July 10 the US Forest Service, the Wrangell Resource Council, and Southeast Alaska Conservation Council held a community collaboration workshop exploring opportunities for stewardship contracting in the Wrangell Ranger District. Keith Rush, a conservation forester with The Nature Conservancy provided background on the Stewardship Contracting Authority, which allows local Forest Service districts to retain excess receipts from timber sales for use on conservation and restoration projects. Stewardship Contracting has been widely...
BEARFEST GOLF TOURNAMENT Saturday, July 27 – 18 Hole Best Ball 1st place – Net score: 33, Handicap: 33 Greg Scheff Ed Rilatos Rafael Nunez Hal Rhodes Sunday, July 28 – 18 Hole Best Ball 1st Place – Net Score: 21, Handicap: 15 Jeff Davidson Ken Davidson Hal Rhodes Randy Littleton BEARFEST MARATHON RESULTS Marathon – Men Brian Asher: 3:21:30 Eric Wartman 3:36:19 Dale McMurren: 3:40:49 Kent Johnson: 3:48:49 George Southgate: 5:42:23 Jim Simpson: 7:34:44 Frank Bartocci: 7:34:44 Laurence Macon: 7:...
Students from the Tatoosh School, a Klawock and Portland, Ore., based educational outfit specializing in studying the “ecological and human dimensions of the landscape of Alaska’s Inside Passage,” made a stop last week in Wrangell with their instructors, Dr. Peter Chaille and Erin Steinkruger. The school’s program, which runs for six week sessions June-September, offers college credit of up to 12 units for students and teaches the foundational skills of wilderness sea kayaking and camping, with...
The Haa Aaní Community Development Fund is joining up with The Nature Conservancy to promote sustainable economic development in the region. The Haa Aaní Community Development Fund and The Nature Conservancy have created the Path to Prosperity Sustainable Business Concept Development Competition. P2P is open to individuals, for-profit businesses or tribal entities in Southeast Alaska. Business ideas may include a new business or expansion of an existing business. Russell Dick, president and CEO of Haa Aaní, said the competition would help sp...
A spate of break-ins to vehicles and possibly a home has the Wrangell Police Department – and private citizens on the lookout for suspicious behavior. The break-ins occurred on the night of Wednesday, July 17, sometime between 10:30-11 p.m., according to a number of statements given by the victims. In total, seven vehicles were either broken into or saw the perpetrator attempt to start the vehicle. One of the unlucky Wrangell residents to have his vehicle tampered with is fire chief Tim Buness. “I went to bed at about a quar... Full story
The Borough Assembly unanimously approved on Tuesday night a request from Alcan Forest Products to lease a portion of the former Wrangell Institute property for a timber sale contracted with the landowner, the Alaska Mental Health Trust. The proposal from Alcan would be for a 100-foot-wide wide easement where a proposed logging road would be located. Alcan would install the road and a gate would be installed between MHT and Borough property to restrict access. In exchange for the use of the land and possession of the timber, the City and Boroug... Full story
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 7, 1913: Hank Summers, who arrived a chechaco in Juneau during the year 1886 but passed on to the watershed of the great Yukon during the summer is again in Juneau, says the Empire. Mr. Summers has been in the reaches of the White river near the Shushana for the past several months. He says the Shushana will turn out to be a great producer. That section of the country in which Mr. Summers has been since last April is, he says, the greatest mineral belt in the world. All kinds of minerals...
The Borough Assembly approved a change order in the amount of $34,600 for the 300-ton marine hoist purchased by the City and Borough of Wrangell this week. The city is under contract with Italian firm Ascom S.p.A. to manufacture and assemble the new 300-ton capacity vessel hoist. The bid documents required a backup control system for use in the case of failure of the wireless remote control, which Ascom is providing as a redundant, plug in, wired remote control. In a memo to the Assembly, Wrangell Public Works Director Carl Johnson explained...
The City and Borough of Wrangell has contracted with Emergency Communications Network, LLC to utilize its CodeRED high-speed notification system, which will allow local officials to quickly deliver messages to targeted areas or the entire borough. For those that want to use the system, Wrangell Police Department Chief Doug McCloskey said that such systems are only as good as the telephone number database supporting them. “If your phone number is not in the database, you will not be called,” he said. “One of the reasons the CodeRED system was s...
