In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
March 11, 1915: Mrs. J. Hyland and her sister Miss E. Philips and their friend Miss E. Roberts arrived Saturday night from Telegraph Creek. The party made the trip over the ice from Telegraph to the mouth of the river. Three sleighs and fifteen dogs in charge of three Indian mushers were used in making the trip. The party encountered a blizzard between the boundary and salt water, but all stood the trip well. Mrs. Hyland brought out a number of fur pelts, black fox, etc. The party left on the Jefferson northbound, Mrs. Hyland going to Juneau on business and Misses Philips and Roberts going to Skagway. All three ladies will be passengers on the Princess Sophia southbound tomorrow night.
March 8, 1940: The good ship “Shrimp” of the Reliance Packing Company doesn't resemble a German U-Boat to folks around Wrangell, but maybe she does to the Canadian customs. At any rate, a Canadian cutter, sighting the ship en route south in Canadian waters the fore part of the week, hailed her down by firing three shots across her bow. A wire to Tom Michaelson from Neil Grant in Seattle says: “Arrived this morning (March 6). Had a wonderful trip and a little excitement. Canadian cutter shot three shots across our bow before we would stop, and boarded our boat to see what we had aboard.”
March 5, 1965: Last night at a special meeting the Wrangell city council went on record as unanimously favoring the establishment of the proposed Jobs Corp camp on the BIA lands located at the Institute. The situation was thoroughly discussed and it was the concensus of the members that Wrangell could only benefit from early establishment of a 100-200 boy camp. A letter stating its position was to be sent as soon as possible. The Rev. Roy Drake, S.J., who is a teacher at Fordham University in New York City, is in Wrangell as a pastor at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.
March 8, 1990: School Board members have instructed their architect to determine what work can be accomplished on the half-finished middle school project with only the $100,000 on hand in district coffers. The decision comes in the wake of a 4-3 City Council vote March 1 to reject the School Board's latest bid for municipal funds to complete the middle school project. Council members rejected the request for $105,000, which would have allowed students to occupy the remodeled wing and commons area started last year as “Phase 1” of the middle school project. Voting for the funding request were Councilmen Tom Sims and Paul Fisher along with Mayor Don House. All three had campaigned last fall in favor of the middle school issue. Casting “no” votes were Councilmen John Baker, Bob Grant, Ken Mason, and Bill Klein. In questioning by the Sentinel last fall, Baker said he would work to find the funds for the School Board if it sought construction money for middle school completion. Grant, Mason, and Klein were not involved in the 1989 election and, therefore, had not taken previous public stands on the issue. School Board President Bill Messmer said the vote left the board having to seek advice from its architect. How much work can be completed with the $100,000 on hand is the question the architect must answer.
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