Ferry schedule open for reservations

By Sentinel staff

As proposed in the draft schedule a month ago Wrangell will see two ferries a week, one southbound and one northbound, under the Alaska Marine Highway System summer schedule, which opened for reservations Feb. 24.

The summer schedule runs May 1 to Sept. 30.

The Matanuska is scheduled to stop in Wrangell southbound early Monday mornings and northbound on Friday afternoons on its weekly run between Bellingham, Washington, and Southeast Alaska.

That's a shift from the schedule for March and April of northbound sailings on Sundays and southbound stops on Wednesdays.

The weekly ru...