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Sabrina Yoder and her 2-year-old daughter Addy are just starting on their bird feeder project, arranging the pre-cut pieces in a workshop held as part of the annual Stikine Birding Festival last Saturday. Sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and Angerman's, the event in front of the Nolan Center provided the wood and tools, along with help, for people to build a bird feeder, while also learning more about feathered fliers. (Photo by Caleb Vierkant)...
The Wrangell Elks Lodge hosted a hamburger dinner last Thursday to award participants in the annual Hoop Shoot contest. Due to the pandemic, the Elks did not hold a regional or national Hoop Shoot this year. Instead, lodges that participated in the contest at the local level had their scores compared, and statewide trophies were given out. Wrangell's state Hoop Shoot winners included (left to right, top row) Aadyn Gillen, Keaton Gadd, Brody Knecht, Paige Hoyt and Haidyn Gadd; and (bottom row)...
Delilah Roane (left) and Maria Holder look over a hermit crab they caught in a tide pool at the Sea Day event last Friday at Shoemaker Park. The Wrangell Cooperative Association and the U.S. Forest Service sponsored the event for the community's homeschool kids. The day featured arts and crafts, education on the plants and animals that can be found near the water, and a potluck lunch for several dozen homeschoolers....
Alyssa Coleman enjoys her Monday afternoon with a book outside City Hall. Wrangell reached a sunny 61 degrees on Monday, far from the record of 72 but still several degrees above average for the day. Sadly, the good weather did not last, with rain Tuesday and rain mostly forecast through Monday....
April 28, 1921 Four mining load claims located on Zarembo Island, about 20 miles from Wrangell, were recorded at the courthouse this week. The claims are designated as Zarembo load claims Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and are located on the northeasterly corner of the island about one mile up the creek from the water. There is an excellent harbor less than two miles from where the claims are located, and the big steamers pass within sight of the property on their regular course. The locators are Messrs. Ed Cox, Tom W. Baker, E. Sholin and W.P. Shotridge....
April 21, 1921 A business deal for which negotiations have been pending for some time and which is of great interest to the community was closed this week with the sale of the St. Michael Trading Co. store by P.C. McCormack to two well-known young men of Wrangell, Ernest and Leonard Campbell. While the transaction was not entirely completed, Mr. McCormack retired from the business at the end of last week. The St. Michael Trading Co. store is one of the oldest here, Mr. McCormack having been one of the four men who established the business in 18...
Jamie Early (left) and Adeline Andrews (with the hose) were among the crew at the Wrangell Lady Wolves high school basketball team car wash fundraiser Saturday morning. Coach Christy Good said that they were trying to get a head start for next year and raise money to help cover travel costs. The team raised $1,577. "I can't even tell you how many cars we washed," she said. The team would likely have another fundraiser event sometime this summer, Good said....
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...
