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A largely forgotten piece of Wrangell history may soon come to light, with the awarding of a Sealaska Heritage Institute grant to research the 1869 Bombardment of Wrangell. SHI received a one-year National Park Service Battlefield Preservation grant to document the 1869 bombardment through oral history work with elders. The work will be done in partnership with the Wrangell Cooperative Association. “This is the first ever Battlefield Preservation Grant awarded to an organization in Alaska to s...
Fort Wrangell Bastion 1880's. The Sentinel would be grateful for any additional information you may have about photos run in this section....
There is an old adage that workplace romances never work. But, what if you brought your romance into the workplace – and held mutual dreams and goals for your life and career? That is precisely what two clinicians at Alaska Island Community Services are doing in the Crossings program. Bethany and Lee Burgess, a married couple who are Licensed Clinical Social Workers in the program, met in college in Michigan and, as the pair says, they fell in love and made their career goal a life’s passion – t...
Thanks to uncooperative weather conditions, the first day of First Bank’s golf tournament at Muskeg Meadows was cancelled, but saw a rescheduled 18-hole and 9-hole event on Sunday, July 22. The event also featured 21 participants taking part in the 9-hole event on the front-9, and had 22 playing in the back-9. The 1st place team on the front-9 was Wrangell Golf Club champion James Brooks, and First Bank representatives from Ketchikan, Matt Hagen and Brian Slick. They took the top spot with a n...
A group of youngsters have fun swimming and squirting each other with water guns at a beach on Zimovia Strait last week – on a day when temperatures rose to the mid-70s....
Sweet Mama, reigning matriarch at Anan Observatory, comes out to welcome everyone back - and not only are the bears returning, but the salmon and the visitors are all flocking as well....
July 25, 1912: Nearly every member of the Motor Boat Club; many of their friends and the band-boys attended the Club Picnic at Pat's Creek last Sunday. Of the eight boats, the Alieris, Gray and Red Streaks, Etolin, Poor Farmer, Black Fox, Dentist and Secret, all had minor troubles except the Secret, which tended to make the trip eventful. The fishing was not up to expectations as the creek was very low and the only good fish caught were by F. Johnson, M. Katenmeyer and the Editor who braved the mosquito army at the head of the lake. July 23,...
The artistry and musical magic of duo Tuck and Patti Andress will be at the forefront of the entertainment available to Wrangell during the 2012 Bearfest celebration – with two performances July 27-28 at the Nolan Center. With a string of 14 albums, including a major-label release on Epic Records, and a career spanning more than 30 years, the pair still tour relentlessly with their unique style of Tuck’s guitar-oriented jazz and Patti’s lilting vocals. Tuck, a guitar phenomenon and native of Ok...
Erika Lynn Jabusch was born on June 26, 2012 in Anchorage to Mike and Natalya Jabusch. Erika weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. and was 20 inches long at birth. Erika is welcomed into the family by big brother Jimmy, 1 1/2. Maternal grandparents are Boris and Olga Segalevich of Anchorage. Paternal grandparents are Kay and Jeff Jabusch of Wrangell. Paternal great-grandfather is Maurice Buness of Wrangell....
Fort Wrangell, 1898. The Sentinel would be grateful for any additional information you may have about photos run in this section....
The Wrangell Ranger District and U.S. Forest Service kicked off their “Nature Detectives” program last week with a pair of youngsters joining USFS interpreters Cory Delabrue and MiKayla Stokes for a trip through the muskeg. The day trip, which included Michaela and Samantha Moran of Mesa, Ariz., began at Volunteer Park and extended through the muskeg on the east side of Ishiyama Drive – and was intended to show the varied insects, flora and other natural wonders that abound in the marshy groun...
Alaska Airlines and Muskeg Meadows golf course held their largest tournament of the year last weekend with an 18-hole drop-out scramble on Saturday and a 9-hole event on Sunday. Despite a weather forecast calling for rain showers most of the day, the morning clouds burned off and temperatures topped a comfortable 70 degrees for 53 participants who took part in the tournament on Saturday. Scott Habberstad, the Director of Sales and Marketing for the airline, said the tournament was great – even t...
Wrangell’s American Legion Post members march with the colors during the Fourth of July parade on Front Street....
July 18, 1912: Dr. Dawes has recently received a modern x-ray machine from northeastern surgical appliance firm and is now prepared to see the exact location and condition of fractured bones. The outfit which is fitted to run on the city's current consists of coil, rheostat, interrupter, volt and amp meter in a compact cabinet. The x-ray tube which throws the greenish penetrating rays operates on a voltage high enough to show a six-inch gap. Mr. A. Crossman, who broke both wrists in a fall several weeks ago, was the first willing victim to be...
Britany Lindley graduated from Pacific Lutheran University on May 27, 2012 with a degree in English and a minor in Legal Studies. Britany is the daughter of Jody and Elsie and is a 2008 graduate from Wrangell High School....
Wrangell, for its size, offers nearly a dozen churches of differing denominations and creeds. And now, one of those churches has been blessed with a new leader of its flock. Richard Fincher, the new pastor at Hope Community Church of God, recently arrived from Georgia, where he pastored and assisted at a pair of churches in the northern region of the state. His prior pastorship was at the Mount Bethel First Church of God in Toccoa, Ga., and he was an assistant pastor at Gordon Lake Wesleyan...
Chuck Oliver Logging Show Hand Bucking - Idaho Style 1st Place, Scott McAuliffe and Merlin Sabo 1:32:80, 2nd place, Randy Oliver and Ron Schacher, 1:47.25, 3rd place, Sean Kelly and Paul McCaige, 1:57.65 Hand Bucking – Single Jack 1st Place, Karl Franci, 31.75, 2nd place, Mike Lockabey, 48.25, 3rd place Merlin Sabo, 53.94. Choker Setting 1st place Karl Franci :18.72, 2nd place, Leif Larsson, :23.31, 3rd place Ron Schacher, :24.81. Ax Chopping 1st place, Merlin Sabo :29, 2nd place Karl Franci, :...
A crowd gathered near Outer Drive watch the fireworks shot from the south side of City Dock for Wrangell’s Fourth of July celebration....
When Bahá’u’lláh founded the Bahá’í faith in the mid-19th century, it was an outgrowth of a movement related to his Islamic upbringing. His faith, he claimed, was the prophetic proclamation and realization of another closely related religion of the time called Babism. In Babism, it was said, there would be a messenger from God who would unite Islam, Christianity and all other major world religions. The fulfillment of that prophecy, the Bahá’í faith, began in Persia, which is now known as Iran under the leadership of Bahá’u’lláh....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. July 4, 1912: With 1,100 mile journey to finish, a crowded schedule and limited time, Mayor William A. Gilmore, who was a passenger north on the Jefferson, found it impossible to stop in Wrangell in the interest of his campaign for delegate to Congress. Starting at Nome on June 17 and traveling south on the steamer Dora C at the time of the Katma eruption to Valdez and to Ketchikan, Mr. Gilmore has had an exciting and successful journey and expresses himself well pleased with the outlook. The remain...
Members of Wrangell’s Boy Scout Troop 40 joined forces June 19-24 with the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the Sitka Conservation Society, the US Forest Service, and local Wrangell volunteers to conduct a number of Wilderness stewardship activities on the Stikine River. The outing, funded in part by a grant through the National Forest Foundation, focused on managing invasive weeds near Twin Lakes and was part of a nationwide effort by the Forest Service to steward Wilderness areas. D...
Talea Hayes and Trevor Kellar were married June 10, 2010 in Lake Tahoe, Calif. The couple will reside in Grass Valley, Calif., where the Trevor is a commercial driver and Talea is a preschool teacher at Beale Air Force Base. The groom is the son of Darcy Erickson and Tom Kellar. The bride is the daughter of Roby and Rynda Hayes and she graduated from WHS in 2004....
Arborist Rico Montenegro plants the first apple tree in the Wrangell orchard at Evergreen Elementary School with, from left, Jamie Roberts, Derek Robbins and Kris Reed....
In a heavy drizzle of rain and high humidity, Muskeg Meadows Golf Course hosted the Ottesen’s True Value, 9-Hole 4-Person Best Ball Scramble, and 9-Hole, 4-Person Mystery Scramble tournaments June 30-July 1. The course welcomed 20 participants who took part in the tournament on Saturday, while 12 golfers – three teams of four players – took part on Sunday. On Saturday, the first place team consisted of Wrangell Golf Club members Bill Messmer, Pete Walden, John Morse, and Eric Kading with a Net 22 score (team handicap, 13.) The No. 2 spot went...
Outgoing Borough Clerk Christie Jamieson accepts a plaque from Mayor Jeremy Maxand acknowledging her 32 years of service to the city during her retirement celebration last week....