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Becca Clark / Wrangell Sentinel

Allen Frank, of Channel Construction, stands March 19 next to a small portion of the mountain of tires that the company is trucking from the community's waste transfer station to the former mill site at 6-Mile, which the borough purchased in 2022 for future industrial development. The borough expects the hauling will be completed before the end of the month. The construction company already operates a scrap metal operation at the site, and hauling the tires off the island for disposal will be part of a new lease agreement under negotiation with the borough that will likely last five years.