High school elevator will finally be replaced

After five years, Wrangell High School will have a new elevator, at last.

The new elevator will be installed next summer after the borough assembly approved a construction contract last week. Demolition will begin toward the end of the current school year, and Capital Projects Director Amber Al-Haddad hopes construction will be completed by the time students walk in on the first day of school in August 2025.

After an oil leak was discovered at the bottom of the existing elevator’s hydraulic ram in March 2020, the school shut down the elevator. It has not been used since. The elevator was insta...