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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – State and Japanese agencies have agreed to keep the lines of communication open over a proposed mega-liquefied natural gas project. Alaska is pursuing the project with three major energy companies, TransCanada Corp. and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. The intended market is Asia, and the nonbinding agreement signed Monday is aimed at strengthening ties with Japan. The “memorandum of cooperation” was signed by Alaska’s Natural Resources commissioner, Joe Balash, and a representative of Japan’s Ministry of Economy,...
PETERSBURG – Mark Weaver, 59, was indicted by a Grand Jury in U.S. District Court on two counts of Possession of Unregistered Destructive Devices in conjunction with an explosion at the Petersburg rock quarry July 13. He was arrested Aug. 27 in Tacoma, Wash. According to court documents, “Weaver did knowingly possess a destructive device which was not registered to him.” The document also states that Weaver possessed seven hand grenades, which were also unregistered. The prosecutor Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Bottini said, “The first d...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) Southeast Alaska’s last mid-sized timber mill is at risk of closing if a sale that would clear-cut 3,700 acres of old-growth forest stalls, according to industry representatives and the U.S. Forest Service. Viking Lumber Co. in Klawock was the winning bidder when the Big Thorne sale was announced last year. The sale was later withdrawn amid appeals by critics, with concerns raised about the impacts on Alexander Archipelago wolves. That spurred further review by the Forest Service that led to a decision last month to go a...
Like catching halibut with a herring, one good deed can sometimes attract another. Wells Fargo announced Monday it will contribute $1,000 to Camp Carmel on Vank Island to honor its Wrangell-branch service manager Aleisha Mollen's efforts there as its assistant program director. For three years Mollen has volunteered at the summer camp as a youth counselor. She also provides weekly one-on-one counseling sessions for local youth at Wrangell Bible Baptist Church, which provides free meals for...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A new report finds Alaska’s Internet speeds are among the slowest in the country. Only Arkansas had slower speeds during the second quarter of 2014, according to the report, set for release later this month, from Internet content delivery company Akamai Technologies. Alaska’s Internet speeds are up 33 percent from last year. But they are about half as fast as the three states with the fastest Internet delivery - Virginia, Delaware and Massachusetts. The rankings are based off content, such as websites and videos, del...
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 being contested, that of Mayor and for a seat on the Wrangell School Board. Two candidates announced they will be running for the position of Mayor, incumbent David Jack and Kipha Valvoda. The position is a 2-year term. For a 3-year term on the School Board, Aleisha Mollen will run against the i...
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 bit over light refreshments. The evening also gave them a chance to acquaint themselves with some new faces at the school. Wrangell School District has a new superintendent, Patrick Mayer, most recently the principal of Delta High School in the Delta-Greely School District. It also has a new...
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. Girls on the Run and Girls on Track are both part of a national program that combines running and training for a 5K with teaching girls life skills through interactive lessons and promoting community awareness. The girls meet three times a week after school. Every session begins with a lesson...
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. Warner brings with him Mr. Earl H. Wilson who will assist in the field work. The survey of the Wrangell townsite has been held up so long it was feared by some of our citizens that the work might not be completed this year. With Mr. Warner in the field, we can feel assured the work will progress as...
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 Training and Resource Center. Beginning Monday, the five-day event is being hosted by the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, in partnership with the Chilkat Indian Village, Craig Tribal Association, Douglas Indian Association, Organized Village of Kasaan, Petersburg Indian A...
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 30s, helping to raise his younger siblings, Gordon, Ole, Bea and Bev after losing both parents by the age of 16. He was employed as a pipefitter in the Seattle shipyards until he enlisted and served as a combat engineer with the Sixth Army. While serving in the Philippines, he was selected and...
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 up there and later in New Jersey where she graduated from Leonia High School. While in her early twenties, she worked in New York City for Metropolitan Life Insurance until she moved to the west coast to be closer to her sister, Delores Linderson. She moved to Olympia, Wash., and met telephone man Ca...
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 George Washington (CVN 73). George Washington and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interest of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. After its crew spent the past month c...
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 via helicopter across the barrier in early July. As of July 20, nearly 4,000 sockeye and over 1,000 large Chinook salmon were successfully transported over the slide area and released into the upper Tahltan River. Water levels in the Tahtan River had receded by the end of July making it possible f...
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 Wrangell Chamber of Commerce. This year the Chamber helped organize and send submissions to the Haines fair, after hosting its first-ever Wrangell Fair during this year's July 4 celebrations. "I think that inspired some interest," Cyni Waddington said of the local fair, getting artists working on projects...
There are a lot of reasons people decide to get a dog. Besides being pets or boon companions, canines can also serve in a number of capacities from assisting the blind to herding, hunting, detecting pests and sledding. Steve Prysunka decided he wanted his family dog to help his community as a tracking dog for Wrangell Search and Rescue, a division of the volunteer fire department. It will fill a need since Wrangell's emergency services have not had local access to search-and-rescue dogs for the...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly had a full plate when it met Tuesday evening, starting with steps toward solving the city's dog problem. Members examined proposed changes drawn up by the borough's code review committee which would reduce loopholes and correct the fee schedule for code infractions concerning the handling and restraint of animals within borough limits. The committee has been going through all the borough's codes for possible revision in turn, but this particular issue has taken precedence. “That was moved up to the forefront,” sai...
September 10, 1914: The fire department was called out last Sunday to extinguish a fire in the house occupied by J.R. Bender, back of the St. Michaels Trading Company store. The fire started from distillate being spilled on a hot stove which flamed up and set fire to a tank used to supply an oil burner stove, which in turn flamed up and set fire to the house. The house is owned by P.C. McCormack. The fire came very close to being a disastrous one, but for the ready response of the fire boys, who extinguished it in fine shape, but only after...
Administrative and nursing staff from the Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) presented an update of a new patient portal program in progress to the hospital’s board of directors at Wednesday’s monthly meeting. Cathy Gross, Denise McPherson and Katrina Ottesen delivered a Powerpoint presentation outlining the hospital’s progress setting up an electronic health records (EHR) system. “Our team meets every week and we can actually have a report we run through and look at,” said Gross. Wrangell’s is one of three Alaskan medical centers now unrolling s...
School may have just begun for Wrangell students, but they can’t rightly start without notebooks, pencils and other supplies. For those still needing materials, the Wrangell Cooperative Association will be holding its annual backpack giveaway on Wednesday. Last year 85 new backpacks were distributed to area students, each laden with brand new school materials. But due to cutbacks, this year’s program was only going to be able to acquire around 20. Knowing some donors, the program’s organizer, Carol Snoddy, decided to see if she could acqui...
It had risen above Wrangell's rooftops for well over a century, acting as a beacon both to Sunday-morning parishioners and ships at sea alike. Now, no more. On Tuesday morning, a hydraulic lift run by Johnson Construction hoisted the neon cross from First Presbyterian's roof for the last time. "The ships used to use it as a beacon," said Nancy Barlow, who manages the church's hostel. "It's like a lighthouse." To her knowledge, the neon cross was only one of two in the world used atop church...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Searchers turned their attention underground Monday for a Juneau woman missing for three months. An expert on Juneau mine shafts led a team under Mount Roberts to look for hiker Sharon Buis, who disappeared May 24. Brian Weed said he did not want to give people false hope that Buis will be found, the Juneau Empire reported. “She may not be down there,” Weed said. “But there's at least two (mining shafts) you could have fallen in if you were sliding down snow, and they're covered most of the year. Probably end of August,...
After being rescheduled earlier in the month because of foul weather, supporters of cancer care were finally able to come together this past weekend to golf, mingle and raise funds for a good cause. Now in its tenth year, the men's and women's Rally For Cancer Care golf tournaments have raised funds for the Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) Foundation's Cancer Care Fund. The fund provides up to $1,000 per year, per applicant to help defray travel and lodging costs for individuals receiving cancer...