March 4, 1926
The last of the inside finishing work of Wrangell’s new $40,000 hospital is being completed and it will be ready to open its doors within a very short time. The building and equipment is a gift to the community from Bishop Rowe of the Episcopal church. The new hospital will be equipped with the most modern X-ray, two large sterilizers of the latest design, and all other equipment will represent the last word in its particular line. The building will have one of the only two passenger elevators in Alaska.

March 2, 1951
The southbound Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Dennis Winn stopped in Wrangell on Tuesday and unloaded a whale boat for the local sea scout unit. After school on Wednesday, the boys lowered the boat into the water from the McCormack Dock under supervision of scout leader Frank Denney. The boat is 28 feet long with a nine-foot beam, and with the exception of a bow seat and two loose planks damaged in the launching operation, the craft is in excellent shape. It is now in the Hanson Boat Shop for remodeling and installing a small engine, a sail and partial decking.

March 3, 1976
Wrangell’s plan to build a swimming pool suffered what could be a serious setback last week when only two bids were returned by prospective contractors, both nearly half-a-million dollars higher than the engineers’ estimates. Chuck Pool, of Pool and Associates, the Ketchikan engineering firm which designed the pool along with August E. Waegemann, of San Francisco, said 35 sets of plans had gone out for the job. Pool expressed surprise at the million-dollar-plus bids and that more proposals were not forthcoming.

March 1, 2001
Police Chief Tom Clemons told the city council of the deterioration of the Public Safety Building. “Something has to be done, there is a double garage door that keeps falling off the hinges and our kitchen is in violation of code,” he said at the meeting. The council directed staff to look into the matter. City Manager Bob Prunella said, “We have to figure out where we are going to get the money to cover this.”