Session sets water plant and new hospital as priorities

The city’s new manager sat down with the Wrangell Assembly last week to hammer out priorities for the coming year.

Beginning the position in mid-July, Lisa Von Bargen decided she preferred to work more closely with the city’s elected officials, and recommended the goal-setting work sessions as a means to that end.

“In my contract with the assembly, I said I wanted to have a goal setting and work session with them to establish what the priorities were that they wanted to see done,” she explained.

Preparing a list of three dozen different projects – from waterfront development and solid waste di...