Sept. 3, 1925
After many months of planning for a school gym, the building committee of the Wrangell PTA recently authorized the work of remodeling the playshed adjoining the grade school and the indications are that the school will be in possession of a first-class gymnasium before long. The shed, which has a floor space of 38-by-80, has been raised to give sufficient height, and an addition on each side will provide seating space as well as two dressing rooms, a shower and a small kitchen. The seating capacity will be about 250.

Sept. 1, 1950
C. Howard Baltzo, assistant regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Del Freimuth, FWS pilot, flew in Wednesday morning and were in Wrangell several hours while on a fish patrol of this section. Asked about fishing conditions, Baltzo said there was “a total blank” in Summer Strait and northward. Areas to the south of Wrangell, he said, are better, with fish showing up in spots. But when questioned about an extension of the season, which closes Saturday, he said he was “not optimistic about an extension unless the fish show surprisingly better.” Baltzo concluded by saying that the only streams in the Wrangell area which are known to have had an adequate escapement are Anan, Crittenden and Snake creeks.

Sept. 3, 1975
Plans for a second small boat harbor at Shoemaker Bay have gone from an “immediate project to a total state of limbo,” the state director of Water and Harbors told a joint meeting of the city council and port commission last week. The director, Don Statter, said the about-face in the status of the project came from a cutback in the funding of Army Corps of Engineers programs, one of which was to provide $700,000 for the construction of the second harbor. The unavailability of Corps funds, linked with skyrocketing construction costs, may have killed or at least shelved indefinitely the harbor project, but Satter assured city leaders that if it would pursue alternate federal funding from the Economic Development Administration, the state would “pick up where the Corps is leaving off.”

Aug. 31, 2000
The city council met Tuesday evening for a brief special meeting to discuss three agenda items requiring immediate action. The first was a resolution supporting a grant application to the Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development for a PSP shellfish testing program, which passed unanimously. Second on the agenda was a motion to accept the bid of White Enterprises for construction of the Phillips/Graves Street sewer and water project for $187,777, which also passed unanimously. The third item, status of the Industrial Park permit, generated discussion not only among the council members and mayor, but from the community as well. The council voted to accept the permit area proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The exact use of the property has not yet been determined, but will be discussed by the planning and zoning commission at future meetings.