May 13, 1926
Early this morning, the Hazel B No. 4 started up the river for the third trip this season. She got underway loaded with some 40 passengers and shoving a barge carrying a tractor, a truck and other mining equipment and baggage. Practically all the passengers and the cargo were bound for Telegraph Creek, B.C., and from there into the Dease Lake district. The largest outfit going on this trip was for the Dickinson Mining Co., with 14 men and several tons of baggage.

May 11, 1951
This week in Wrangell, sawmill operators were as thick as the proverbial fleas. Four executives connected with C.T. Takahashi’s Alaska Wrangell Mills spent the past few days here making last arrangements for the reopening of their mill in the very near future. They contemplate a limited operation at present, operating the old mill as it now stands. While cutting lumber for their own needs and marking the surplus, they will be in the process of revamping and rebuilding to eventually have one of the finest and largest mills in Southeast.

May 12, 1976
Work on a $43,000 waterfront fill project which created land to house a new city warehouse and approach for a new municipal wharf has been completed. A total of 86,000 cubic yards of rock was shuttled to the site from a city pit near the park on Zimovia Highway by contractors Wrangell Logging and Buno Construction. Finished on schedule, the job was inspected last week. The city has advertised for bids for construction of the new city dock to be built of reinforced concrete and also a new barge ramp.

May 10, 2001
Soon boat owners at Shoemaker Bay Harbor will no longer need to use their mountaineering skills to get up to the parking lot at low tide. The port commission on May 3 agreed to go out to bid locally for a 75-foot ramp extension that will considerably lessen the angle of one ramp at low tides. Commissioners also heard from Harbormaster Dave Mork, who reported that “Lake Wrangell,” a large water-filled low area behind the old mill office which had created a nuisance for many years, was eliminated by the simple solution of drilling several holes in the cement which allowed the water to drain down into the rubble-filled area underneath.