Articles from the September 4, 2014 edition
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Candidates announced for regular election
An official list of candidates for this year’s City and Borough of Wrangell regular election on Oct. 7 was released by Borough Clerk Kim Lane on Friday evening. At the moment, only two offices are b... Full story
Open house kicks off new school year
School is back in session for the borough's students, after classes resumed last week. To mark the occasion, Wrangell High School and Stikine Middle School hosted their open house Tuesday evening, welcoming parents, students and faculty to mingle a... Full story
School program getting girls on the right track
Taking a cue from the success of Evergreen Elementary School's winter Girls on the Run program, for the first time a similar Girls on Track group has been started for girls at Stikine Middle School.... Full story
The Way We Were
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. September 17, 1914: Mr. Frank Warner, U.S. Surveyor for Alaska, arrived on the Dolphin Tuesday. Mr. Warner is here to survey the Wrangell townsite and will go to work at once and complete the work. Mr....
Canadian mines on upcoming tribal conference agenda
Representatives of Southeast Alaskan tribal groups will be meeting in Juneau next week to discuss regional concerns at the annual Southeast Environmental Conference in the city’s Vocational T...
Obituary, Maurice Buness, 93
Maurice Buness, 93, died August 23, 2014 in Wrangell Medical Center Long Term Care. Buness was born May 24, 1921 in Powers Lake, N. D. to Magna and Bjarne Buness. He grew up in the Dustbowl of the... Full story
Obituary, Wanda Ann Andresen, 83
Wanda Ann Andresen, 83 passed away at the Wrangell Medical Center on July 16, 2014 with family by her side. Wanda Ann Brady-Casey, was born in 1930 in St. Louis, Mo., and spent her childhood growing u... Full story
Preparing for Pacific patrol
YOKOSUKA (AP) – Japan Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Trey Torvend, uses a deck crawler to strip hangar bay door tracks aboard the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS G...
Fish Factor
If Russia won't buy seafood from the US, we won't buy seafood from them. That's the gauntlet being thrown down by Alaska's Congressional Delegation to retaliate against Russia's yearlong ban on food...
Relocation efforts help sockeye salmon reach escapement goal
PETERSBURG – Efforts by the Canadian agency Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to relocate salmon across a barrier created by a landslide in late May are helping sockeye salmon reach escapement goals. DFO began relocating sockeye and Chinook salmon v...
Wrangell artists impress at State Fair
Wrangellites fared well this year at the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, with a dozen local artists garnering 22 prizes. "All the entries placed pretty well," said Shawna Buness of the...
