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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...
The borough assembly voted 7-0 Tuesday to push an amendment to borough code on the plight of abandoned or derelict vessels to a second reading. The suggested revisions originally came out of the city’s Ports & Harbors commission by a unanimous approval in October. At that time, assembly members objected to portions of the existing borough code relating to the harbormaster’s ability to impound vessels for violation of public code and the number of public notices made before impounding a boat. Assembly member James Stough, who raised con...
Gym denizens looking for a treat after a few hours on a treadmill may have to go a little further. Parks officials are considering remove vending machines from the swimming pool to make space for additional exercise equipment and the hallway outside the community gym to prevent food from working its way into the gym, Parks and Recreation Director Amber Al-Haddad told the department’s advisory committee. Concerns about the availability of space and about the healthiness of the snacks offered drove the decision, Al-Haddad said. “I totally und...
In the Sentinel 75, 50 and 25 years ago. November 11, 1938: The story of the first Armistice Day celebration in Wrangell was told in the Wrangell Sentinel of November 14, 1918, as follows: More than 142 years ago, in the city of Philadelphia, a bell rang out the news that a nation had been born with Liberty as its watchword, rang and rang that all might know the wonderful tidings. A few years ago, bells everywhere proclaimed the fact that this nation, grown to a mighty world power, had helped win liberty for a war-wracked world, and freedom...
On October 29, Wrangell Magistrate Chris Ellis adjudicated the following case: Thomas Evenson, 69, was found guilty of Disorderly Conduct – Create Hazard Condition. He was ordered to pay $50 in fines and surcharges and placed on probation for a year. A charge of Disorderly Conduct – Expose Buttocks was dismissed....
To the Editor: Thank you to those in the community who are bigger than Facebook. Thank you to those who look for the facts for yourself, rather than believe what you hear through the grapevine. Facebook is a powerful tool. One that allows you to get in touch with old friends from around the globe, wish somebody a happy birthday, or sell some junk in your basement. It is also the perfect vehicle to ruin somebody’s reputation. A person can spend a lifetime building personal and professional relationships, hours upon hours trying to perfect t...
Maria Weeg the daughter of Stephen Weeg and Nancy Grecco of Pocatello, Idaho, and Jeremy Maxand the son of Bob and Alysse Maxand of Wrangell, Alaska, were married on October 5, 2013. The ceremony was held at Cinder Winery in Garden City, Idaho and was officiated by Timothy Rooney, of Mustang, Okla. Maria and Jeremy met in Boise, Idaho in February 2003. After six years of procrastination, Jeremy invited Maria to Wrangell, where he was living, and the two made their first home together. In...
Louise Amy Bradley, 62, died on October 28, 2013. Louise was Tlingit, Raven/Frog and was born September 26, 1952 in Wrangell, Alaska to Henry and Fannie Bradley. She was the 6th if 11 children. She was named after her grandmother Louise Bradley, a founding member of ANS Camp #1. Louise was an active member of ANS Camp #1 throughout her life. Louise loved to play bingo, pick berries and make cookies for her family. She found pleasure in playing with her cats. She enjoyed sobriety for 30 years...
A bruised and somewhat diminished Wolves team still found ways to shine at the Craig Invitational Nov. 8 and 9. The key word for the Wolves was experience, said head coach Jeffery Rooney. The Craig Invitational’s structure of round-robin wrestling Nov. 8 and tournament wrestling Nov. 9 allowed each of the Wolves to boost their mat time considerably, Rooney added. “We combined a few classes, moved a few kids around all over there, a lot of good wrestling,” he said. “Everybody walked out of the tournament there with five, six, seven matches...
Freshman Kaylauna Churchill, left, standing, and sophomore Kyla Teat perform their pantomime as part of a command performance Saturday night at Wrangell High School. Churchill and Teat are part of the schools Drama, Debate and Forensics Team, which held a home meet Nov. 8 and 9. They placed third in the pantomime category. Full results and a news story will be in the Nov. 21 edition of the Sentinel....
U.S. Rep. Don Young cancelled a planned public appearance in Wrangell and Petersburg Nov. 6 after reporting chest discomfort, according to a press release issued by his office. Young had originally planned for a public meet-and-greet following a tour of city facilities in Wrangell with borough department heads and assembly members. He completed the tour with department heads, according to Harbormaster Greg Meissner. When media representatives and officials later showed up for the 3 pm meeting with Mr. Young, a staff representative said Young...
For the eleventh consecutive year, the Wrangell Ministerial Association will hand out Thanksgiving food baskets to needy families. Distribution of the food baskets will be Nov. 22 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the first (upper) floor of the Harbor Light Assembly of God Church. Families in need of a little assistance over the holiday should make sure their names are on the list beforehand, organizers said. Families collecting their baskets will see two familiar faces. Don and Bonnie Roher, who’ve helped coordinate the annual food giveaway since t...
Officials from Samson Tug and Barge said freight operations in Wrangell and Petersburg would go largely unaltered as a result of a merger set to take effect this weekend. The merger has been in the works for months. Global shipping company Lynden, Inc. announced it would purchase the Northland Services brand and combine it with Alaska Marine Lines (AML) in April. Northland and AML are the two main cargo providers to Southeast, and Alaska state officials initially warned the arrangement could lea...