Oct. 21, 1926

A piano has been rented for the high school to be used in assembly singing and chorus work. The piano also will be used by the orchestra. In other school news, enrollment numbers are in and the total comes to 183 students this fall. There are 143 students in the grade school and 40 in the high school. The enrollment for the corresponding period last year was 145 in the grade school and 29 in the high school. More than half of this year’s enrollment have been neither absent nor tardy during the past six weeks – 75 in the grade school and 20 in the high school. 

Oct. 19, 1951

In comparison with 21 bull moose taken by hunters off the Stikine River last year, only 15 were reported for this season, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Monte Cremmons, local agent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. In addition to the 11 successful hunting parties reported in the Sentinel midway in the season, four more bagged bulls in the past two weeks. The Carl Bradley and Ed Lowney party bagged their second moose on Oct. 14, and brought it out whole. They were marooned by low water until near the end of the season. Petersburg hunters, headed by Arne Trones, claimed the 15th and final animal for the season.

Oct. 20, 1976

Good news will fly into Wrangell on Thursday, Oct. 21 – weather permitting – when Alaska Airlines resumes its jet service here for the first time since the airline was struck by its flight attendants on Sept. 25. It was expected that the U.S. Postal Service would return the responsibility of bringing mail in and out of Wrangell to Alaska Airlines, ending the emergency contract it had granted L.A.B. Flying Service, of Juneau, when the flight attendant strike began. Along with resumption of regularly scheduled passenger service here, the airline was expected to lift its freeze on freight and Gold Streak service for Wrangell. 

Oct. 18, 2001

Gov. Tony Knowles, same as many other governors across the nation, has called members of Alaska’s National Guard to help ensure the safety of the state’s airports, fulfilling a request by President George Bush to provide a visible deterrent after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. On Oct. 11, three National Guardsmen arrived in Wrangell for a stay estimated to last four to six months until new FAA guidelines and other federal support is developed and put into place.