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The northern lights were out over Wrangell on Friday night, viewed here from the Airport Loop Road....
April 14, 1921 Richard Suratt, Wrangell’s movie photographer, sent recently to the company he represents an interesting group of pictures which were taken on his recent trip to see construction of the Alaska Railroad. The one that will no doubt excite the most interest wherever shown was taken at the end of steel along the construction of the railroad, and shows passengers, alighting from a modern railroad coach, being transferred to dog sleds. The coach is standing at the extreme end of the finished portion of the railroad, the ends of the rai...
Wrangell's Rowen Wiederspohn (right) competes against Thunder Mountain's Sage Richards at the Brandon Pilot Invitational held Saturday at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau. Click here for more photos and results of the wrestling meet....
April 7, 1921 The skating party given at the rink last Thursday night for the benefit of the tennis court was a great success and added a considerable amount to the fund which is being raised for its improvement. Sixteen dollars were netted from the sale of the tickets and the girls who sold lemonade cleared over four dollars. The skaters had a very enjoyable evening and a large number of spectators were present. April 5, 1946 Wrangell has again followed an old established custom of giving more than was asked, according to G. J. Fabricius,...
The tugboat Edith Olson pulls a barge past the heavy-lift vessel Red Zed I in the Tongass Narrows near Ketchikan during a heavy snowfall last Friday. The 712-foot-long heavy-lift vessel was expected to spend the week in Ketchikan, taking aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System's two mothballed fast ferries that the state has sold to a Mediterranean-based tour operator. The semi-submersible Red Zed 1 will give the 235-foot-long Chenega and Fairweather a piggyback ride to Spain. The state paid...
Adam Sprehe (left) and Nick Allen concentrate on their targets 25 yards away in the community center gym, while Quinton Davies watches intently from behind, waiting for his turn to shoot in the Wrangell Parks and Recreation archery class March 11....
Members of the Ritchie family enjoy their drive-through lunch at Irene Ingle Public Library (left to right): Bonnie, Chad and Bo. The library hosted a hot dog lunch for the public Tuesday afternoon, in celebration of National Library Week. Red velvet cupcakes were the dessert....
Jillian Privett prepares to fill a bowl to go at KSTK's chili feed last Saturday afternoon. The fundraising event featured winning dishes from previous chili cooking contests the radio station has hosted, along with an art auction. People could choose between moose and venison, vegetarian and other chili offerings on a chilly day in the high 30s. The station reports it sold 70 bowls of the different varieties at the event....
Mason Rushmore shows off an Easter egg he found along the Volunteer Park nature trail on Saturday. Eggs were hidden along the trail the first few days of April by Marilyn Mork, with the American Legion Auxiliary, to encourage parents and kids to go enjoy the outdoors and hunt for the treats....
March 31, 1921 It is with genuine pleasure that we add to our exchange list the Wrangell (Alaska) Sentinel, the Sultan (Washington) Star announced. “The Sentinel is a neatly printed, newsy well-edited paper, and apparently has the generous support of the businessmen of Wrangell. Now, you old sourdoughs of the Skykomish Valley whose feet are itching to go back to the scenes of your triumphs or defeats in the frozen northwest, mush into the Star office and read the news from your old stomping grounds. The Sentinel will be kept on file for your a...
Wrangell's secondary schools returned to in-person class Monday after a four-day move to distance learning when a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Back in the classroom for college English on Monday were (left to right) Liana Carney, Jade Balansag, Paige Baggen and Terra Hoyt. Bob Davis, lead teacher and assistant principal for the secondary schools, said in a letter that while in-person classes are back, online classes are still an option for all students. He asked that any...
March 24, 1921 The pupils of the public school were given a delightful surprise last Friday afternoon, when before being dismissed for the day they were told to go to the gymnasium. Arriving there, they were served with ice-cream and cake by ladies of the Parent-Teachers Association. In order to facilitate the work for those in charge of the party, the pupils, accompanied by their teachers, left the school in relays. Members of the school board also were invited to be present at the time. The party given Friday takes the place of the one given...
March 17, 1921 The peak of high prices has not been reached in printing materials. In December the Sentinel laid in a supply of certificate bond paper at 32 cents a pound. This same paper is quoted on the Seattle market today at 37 cents a pound. All printing machinery and other equipment is still soaring. A typesetting machine that was priced at $4,100 at the outbreak of the war is now listed at $5,0000. All over the United States papers are being forced out of business owing to high prices of printing materials. Other papers are attempting...
The high school is creating a permanent display to honor “the sacrifices made by our military service members,” the school announced last week. The display will include a large wooden American flag, plaques for each branch of the military, and the names of all Wrangell High School graduates serving in the military and all Wrangell residents who have retired from military service. The school asks that anyone who is serving or is retired, or knows someone in either category, to call Katelyn Reeves at 874-3393 or Bob Davis at 874-3395 or 907...
After temporarily moving to distance learning in response to an increase of COVID-19 cases in the community, Wrangell schools reconvened for in-person classes Monday. Junior James Shilts started the day in strength training class. “I’m really excited to have everybody back,” said teacher Jack Carney. “A lot of kids are in training programs for basketball, and wrestling and different sports, so we’re happy about that. I’m just excited to get back and in school, because online [classes] c...
The 477-foot-long Cable Innovator pulled in as close as it could at Shoemaker Bay on Monday to lay GCI’s fiber optic cable to a new onshore connection point. See the full story on Page 5....
March 10, 1921 E.L. Carpenter of the U.S. Engineering Department, who has been in Wrangell for some time to survey and give an official report on the site of the proposed breakwater, 350 feet in length from Shustak Point, is leaving for Seattle on the Mary. A petition was circulated in April 1919 by Samuel Cunningham and forwarded to Delegate Grigsby for the breakwater at Wrangell harbor which would afford protection in stormy weather to hundreds of boats. Later it was found that the petition had been lost, and in early 1920 Oscar Wickstrom,...
The week started clear, with blue skies over Heritage Harbor on Sunday afternoon, but the forecast was for rain and possible snow to return later in the week, reminding the community that winter is not completely finished for the year....
Just as ice floats from Shakes Glacier into the Stikine River every year, so too will visitors return to Wrangell this summer. The Sentinel wants to help the community get ready and visitors to know what the area has to offer. The 2021 Wrangell Guide will be printed and published online the first week of April. Call or email the Sentinel now to reserve your ad in the visitor guide, which this year will feature photos from award-winning photographer and frequent Stikine and Anan Creek visitor...
March 3, 1921 About 160 feet of the dock, which is being built by Donald Sinclair for the convenience of fisherman and other boatmen who are patrons of the City Store, have been completed and the balance of the 200 feet, which will be the length of the main dock, will be put in when the tides permit the work to continue. The dock is seven feet wide. An inclined approach about 40 feet long will connect a substantial floating dock 80 feet in length with this main dock. The whole structure, which runs out from a platform at the rear of the...
Feb. 24, 1921 The annual ball of the Wrangell Fire Department, an event always looked forward to as one of the big affairs of the year, was held Saturday night. The hall was decorated with flags, helmets, ladders and axes, and a three-piece orchestra furnished the music. There was a large attendance and Arnt Sorset, who was floor manager, kept the dances going in quick succession, assuring everyone a good time. The fireman’s dance is usually given on the 22nd of February, but it was decided to have it on the nearest Saturday to that date this y...