June 24, 1926

Capt. Frank Shand of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau took passage on a steamship this morning for Wrangell, where he will spend several months inspecting a large order of lumber amounting to several shiploads which will be shipped from Wrangell to New York via the Panama Canal. According to an announcement from the lumber bureau this morning, the Wrangell sawmill will start up full blast on Monday, June 28, and continue on a full capacity steady run as far into the winter as weather will permit. 

June 22, 1951

Farwest Wrangell Co. will start summer operations next week when the gillnet fishing season opens on the Stikine. Superintendent Einar Ottesen said the company will can as soon as enough fish are available. Arlo Mills, cannery foreman, and Roy Lane arrived here last Tuesday and are working with other members of the crew to get the machinery ready. Ronald Schwartz has been employed as first machinist and Cecil Carter as filler operator. 

June 23, 1976

Four new businesses have opened or will open in the next month in Wrangell, including two electronics shops, a crafts store and a barbershop. Highfield Electronics, on Front Street kitty-corner from the Thunderbird Hotel, opened earlier this month.  Owner Dennis Eastaugh offers television, CB radio, stereo and other electronic repair. The other new electronics shop in town is Iceworm Electronics, in the old Zimovia Market building about four miles on Zimovia Highway. Alan Gregg offers CB radios and depth finders, and services televisions, stereos and other electronics gear. Sisters Tyne Gadd, Terri Gross and Tracy Saunders  have joined together to open Why-Knot Craft Shoppe on the second floor of the Kadin Building on Front Street. The craft shop will offer goods for macrame, sand art, decoupage, candle and jewelry making. Melvin Brady will set up his barbershop in town sometime in mid-July on the first floor of the Kadin Building. 

June 28, 2001

It may have been the sun working its magic, but the city council ran through its agenda in a mere 45 minutes Tuesday night and as a bonus, smiles were in abundance. Real estate cropped up in several items on the agenda, firstly with passage of an ordinance authorizing sale of 18 lots in the Industrial Park. A motion to partially vacate McCormack Street, a plotted but not built street between Second Avenue and Cassiar Street, was defeated.