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A reduced Wrangell wrestling squad visited Juneau this weekend for the Pilot Invitational. Freshman Darren Shilts earned the highest place for the Wolves, wrestling his way back to third place in the 132-lb bracket. Senior Alex Cano wrestled his way to fourth place by beating Wrangell freshman Sam Armstrong before losing a close decision to Ketchikan’s Kadin Hallstron. Sophomore Chet Armstrong scored another fourth place for the Wolves in the 152-lb. bracket. Alissa Heller also secured a fifth place finish in the 98-lb bracket. Shilts lost h...
A number one seed for the Region V tournament is within the grasp of the Wrangell volleyball team after a weekend sweep in Haines. The Lady Wolves both benefited and suffered from foul weather. High seas and wind kept regional rivals Craig and Metlakatla from attending, but also barred the attendance of two of the volleyball team's starters and the varsity head coach. The meet led off with an exhibition match against Haines the first day, followed by an evening match up against Skagway. "There...
While one part of the news was certainly somber at the informal end-of-year Outfitter Guide Meeting at the Wrangell Ranger District, the tone was light-hearted. First, the somber news. The Wrangell Ranger District faces a 30 percent cut to its recreation budget in preliminary figures. Ranger Bob Dalrymple cautioned that if that number were to hold – although he’s seen budget cuts fail to materialize in the past – the Anan Bear Observatory could be shuttered. The observatory is a marquee attraction for tourism in Wrangell, and drew 2,873 visit...
PETERSBURG – The commercial sea cucumber fishery is wrapping up with a total of 1.4 million pounds harvested as of last Thursday. Scott Walker, Ketchikan Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said the fishery started out with around 195 commercial divers when it opened in early October. “The bulk of the fishery is over,” Walker said. “The week before last was the last big push we had with around 113 divers. This week we’re down to 25 divers, maybe 30.” According to Alaska Fisheries Entry Commission d...
It didn't matter what Ben Florschutz might have wanted. He wasn't going to get a sucking chest wound. "No chest wounds tonight!" said Fire Department administrator Dorianne Curley, putting the kibosh on Florschutz's plans. The wounds in this case were thankfully all simulated, though you wouldn't know it with a casual glance at Wrangell High senior Hannah Armstrong's left arm, which dribbled fake blood from a fake gunshot wound as she cradled it in the auditorium of the Nolan Center Thursday...
When he was nine months old, Spencer Petticrew’s parents tried to give him a single pea. The pea didn’t quite make it into his mouth, but only brushed his lips, his mother, Sherri Pettcrew, said. However, Spencer turned bright red within 30 seconds, and started having difficulty breathing. The Petticrews rushed their son to an emergency room, where doctors determined that Spencer had a severe food allergy. “His entire face turned red, he got hives all over his body and he couldn’t breathe and we had to go to the emergency room,” she said. “It...
Borough officials placed two items related to water use atop the 2014-15 capital budget request list. The list itself has yet to be completed. Borough assembly members said at the Nov. 12 assembly meeting they would work to revise items lower on the list, and possibly break one big-ticket item – the purchase and development of the former Mill property -- up into phases, which might be more palatable to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which plays a role in evaluating the r...
Coming months could bring big changes to the way the Wrangell Unit of the Tongass National Forest operates, officials said. The Wrangell Unit is looking at an approximately 30 percent cut to its total recreation budget this year, said Ranger Bob Dalrymple. At that rate, some 60 percent of remote access cabins (cabins which require a helicopter or boat for access) would be up for possible elimination, and officials would have to seriously re-evaluate — among other things — operations at the Anan Bear Observatory. That may come as pot...
In the Sentinel 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 18, 1938: The Hospital Auxiliary staged a very successful benefit for the Bishop Rowe General Hospital on Armistice Day when 65 persons registered between the hours of 3 to 5 and attended the annual silver tea, postponed from last May. Perhaps the greatest surprise to the tea patrons was the fact that quantities of garden flowers, particularly snapdragons, had been saved from the heavy frost of preceding days and were used to center the daintily arranged tea tables and wherever a vase could be...
Bar and liquor-store owners praised a possible revision in Wrangell’s liquor laws this week. Revisions to liquor sale ordinances approved on first reading by the borough assembly Nov. 12 would allow alcohol to be sold on election days in the borough, and also standardize the hours of operation for any business selling alcohol throughout the calendar year. As borough code currently stands, businesses selling alcohol may open between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. during the fall and winter only by special permit, and not at all on election days. Current law...
On November 12, Wrangell Magistrate Chris Ellis adjudicated the following case: Harry Churchill, 79, was found guilty of Failure To Stop For School Bus. He was ordered to pay $400 in fines and surcharges and placed on probation for one year....
Michael Daris Frazier, known to friends as Wolf Creek Mike, was born May 30, 1939 in Walla Walla, Wash. to Daris and Ellen Frazier. He grew up in Walla Walla, Spokane, Lake Pend Orrville, and Bremerton, Illahee, and Gilberton on the Kitsap Peninsula. Mike graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle, and joined the Marines on November 10, 1957. After receiving his honorable discharge Mike spent a couple of years in college and then it was on to industry, firmly establishing himself in the...
Rita Rae Perez, 65, died on November 11, 2013. She was born Tlingit/Aleut Raven/Frog on May 6, 1948 in Wrangell, Alaska to Henry and Fanny (Theordosia) Bradley. She was their 4th daughter. Rita loved to spend time with her kids and grandkids and watch her grandsons' school sporting events. She also could be found playing bingo, card games and dice games. She enjoyed derby fishing with her sister Johanna, plus City Park family picnics. She loved family and friends' company as long as there was...
The borough's energy committee asked borough administrator Jeff Jabusch to provide the borough assembly with data-driven assessments of options for the future of the Thomas Bay Power Authority. The committee's Monday meeting was largely an informal affair, with most decisions being made by consensus instead of role-call votes. Committee members also honed in on the options for the TBPA, which has been stuck in limbo since the Petersburg borough council voted to withhold their portion of funding...
Wrangell Oil, Inc. officially ceased to exist Friday. Bill Privett, the current owner of the town’s multi-generational oil concern (and, in the interests of full disclosure, the Sentinel’s landlord) sold his company to Seward-based Petro Marine Services for an undisclosed sum. The sale is a win-win for the community, based largely on the economies of the scale Petro Marine can provide, Privett said. The Wrangell Distribution plant joined Petro Marine’s Alaskan plants in Ketchikan, Petersburg, Kodiak, Seward, Sitka, Skagway, Whittier, Anchorage,...
Wrangell High’s drama, debate and forensics team drew mixed results at the season’s lone home meet. Kyla Teat and Kaylauna Churchill placed third and delivered a command performance pantomime titled “Doctor’s Office,” the highest honor awarded to Wolves debaters over the course of the two-day event. Ben Florschutz earned another third place in extemporaneous commentary, a category in which presenters have a limited amount of time to research and present on a topic. Florschutz also placed fifth in the category of original oratory, during wh...
Alaska Island Community Services Chief Financial Officer Georgianna Buhler will depart the organization soon, AICS officials said. Buhler delivered a two-month notice after ten years with the community service group, according to AICS Executive director Mark Walker. Voicemail messages to Buhler’s phone weren’t immediately returned Tuesday. “We don’t think it’s going to impact our services,” Walker said. “Georgianna provided great service for us and was a very devoted employee and we’re gonna miss her.” AICS hasn’t yet formulated a plan t...
PETERSBURG – Kevin Colson, Wildlife Biologist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, gave a presentation in the public library conference room Tuesday night about moose populations and their long journey to Southeast Alaska. To help tell the story, Colson for the past year and a half has worked with Petersburg high school teacher Joni Johnson and her science students as they collect and catalogue moose DNA samples. Before moose made their way to Southeast, a very recent occurrence that didn’t happen until the early 1900s, they lived in the bo...
The Wrangell Planning and Zoning commission voted 4-0 to grant a conditional use permit to Christie and Bruce Jamieson at a Nov. 14 meeting. The Jamiesons told commissioners they plan to operate a bed and breakfast out of their house at 612 Zimovia Highway, for one tourism season from approximately May 2014 until the end of September 2014. They plan to host as many as four people, and provide bicycles for tourists to travel around town, they said. “Our home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, so we have two empty bedrooms with one bathroom to...
The girls volleyball team was eager to size up the regional competition going into an invitational at Craig this weekend. Craig, Klawock and Wrangell sit atop the rankings for the Region V conference at first, second and third respectively. The invitational represented one last chance to test out the competition going into this weekend’s seeding tournament in Haines, according to head coach Jessica Whitaker. “It was kind of just pick-up games to get a look at each other,” she said. “Especially right before the seeding tournament, it’s ni...
The borough assembly voted 7-0 Tuesday night to select Jeff Jabusch for the borough manager position. The vote means Jabusch will enter into contract negotiations with assembly members Donald Blake and James Stough, as well as Mayor David Jack, in the coming weeks. The assembly had been looking for a new manager since the resignation of former administrator Tim Rooney in August. Assembly members had reduced a list of 15 candidates to four, prior to Tuesday's vote. Jabsuch said he was happy with...
Stikine Middle School seventh graders buzzed around Shoemaker Shelter lighting fires one afternoon last week. Instead of committing a spree of wanton teenage vandalism, students were learning skills essential to life in Southeast. One by one, they took turns starting a fire using a nine-volt battery and steel wool as well as flint and steel to light cotton balls smeared with Vaseline – all under careful supervision and in designated fire areas. They also practiced building shelters from n...