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March 18, 1915: C.G. Burnett, A.B. Pennycook and E.P. Clark returned Saturday afternoon on the gas boat Peggy from a 300 mile cruise through Fredrick Sound, Chatham Strait, and Sumner Strait. They report that all bays along Baranoff Island are still frozen up. The following additional items of news were gleaned from a conversation with one of the members of the party. Captain Morgan, formerly of Wrangell, arrived in Port Walter recently after a seven years absence from Alaska. Captain Morgan was married last year to a lady of the Lone Star state and expects to have her join him soon. He plans to come to Wrangell to live in a few months. The Peggy got froze in at Port Walter, it being necessary for the crew to chop a way for her to get out.
March 15, 1940: The Shakes Island project will be in shape for the opening of the tourist season around the first of June, Regional forester B. Frank Heintzleman said here today. Heintzleman arrived here yesterday with Pilot Shell Simmons, who was en route to Juneau, and will fly over to Petersburg this afternoon with Tony Schwamm, accompanied by District Ranger S.S. Dennison. The regional forester, father of the plan to develop Shakes Island into an attractive, historical recreation area, reported the work progressing in good shape and said that if it was found necessary, additional men would be put on to get everything in shape by the tourist season.
March 12, 1965: The Wrangell City Council granted two 55-year leases and four building permits at its regular meeting last Tuesday. Harbor Seafoods was granted a 55-year lease on a strip of land approximately 8' x 40' adjoining their property which is necessary for the building of their cold storage. A building permit was also issued. Reliance Shrimp Co. was granted a 55-year lease and a building permit on submerged property for an extension of its dock. A building permit was granted to Ora Phillips for rebuilding their home which was damaged severely in a recent fire.
March 15, 1990: School Board members approved a nearly $94,000 change order Monday, allowing completion of some areas of the middle school construction project. The vote came as the city's new manager, Darrell Maple, explored funding options for the municipality to complete the entire construction job. Board members approved a $93,826 change order to Ritchie Transportation Inc., the contractor for Phase 1 of the middle school job. The money comes from about $130,000 in leftover construction funds available in the Phase 1 project. Superintendent Mary Francis said the money would finish the indoor stairs in the front of the building to allow students inside access between the downstairs commons area and the upper floor of classrooms. It also will allow for removal of the under-ground fuel tank buried in concrete between the exiting vocational-education building and the high school. That tank was buried during construction of the high school in 1985 despite considerable problems - and expenses - in keeping the tank below ground.
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