Feb. 25, 1926
Another new business establishment will soon be in operation on Front Street. A service station and garage, measuring 26 by 68 feet, is being built on the vacant lot between the City Store and Maurice Healy’s Fur Emporium. I. C. Bjorge, who is at the head of the new enterprise, states that in addition to supplying gasoline and oils he will carry a liberal stock of automobile accessories. Repair work will be an important feature too.


Feb. 23, 1951
Joel Wing, U.S. Commissioner and Recorder for Wrangell, encourages all parents of Wrangell-born children to check with him as soon as possible to determine whether or not birth certificates for the children are on record in the local office. Several cases have come up recently when a Wrangell-born person needed a birth certificate but none were recorded for them. Parents have assumed that certificates are recorded but that has proven not to always be true.


Feb. 25, 1976
About 50 persons showed up at a state Department of Fish and Game hearing last week on the question of a salmon hatchery in Burnett Inlet on Etolin Island. The hatchery is proposed by the Alaska Aquaculture Foundation, a newly-formed nonprofit. A number of individuals spoke in favor of the proposal. The nonprofit proposes building a hatchery, which by 1984 could be handling 50 million salmon eggs and theoretically be self-supporting through the sale of fish after the fishing fleets harvest a percentage of the hatchery-bred stock.


Feb. 22, 2001
Tuesday’s joint workshop with the city council, port commission and the Friends of the Museum demonstrated that Wrangell is both its own worst enemy and its best friend. The meeting was chaired by Ottie Florschutz, port commission president. The commissioners led the discussion with their consensus that the museum project and the boat haul-out could co-exist on the fill area, and that the museum site would be the best location for the Nolan Center. Most meeting participants and members of the audience agreed that both projects are needed to stimulate Wrangell’s flagging economy and that each should proceed quickly.