May 6, 1926
C.C. Mundy has taken out a building permit for construction of a four-room modern house to be built on Wrangell Avenue. C.A. Carlson has been awarded the contract. This is the first of four houses which Mr. Mundy plans to build during the year to relieve the town’s tight housing conditions.

May 4, 1951
After a meeting with fishermen last Monday evening at the Bjorge Hall, C.L. Anderson, territorial director of the Alaska Department of Fisheries, announced this week that two hunters have been hired to kill off the hair seal on the Stikine Flats. The seals are a fish destroyer. The recent Legislature appropriated $50,000 for the Department of Fisheries to use for seal control during the current biennium.

May 5, 1976
The state Department of Fish and Game verified this week issuance of a permit for Alaska Aquaculture Foundation of Wrangell to establish a nonprofit salmon hatchery at Burnett Inlet on Etolin Island. In addition to the Department of Fish and Game permit to obtain and incubate salmon eggs and release the fry, hatchery operators must obtain permits from other state and federal agencies for land use, water use, waste discharge and structures in navigable waters before hatchery operations can begin.

May 3, 2001
This past month, a wolf was spotted with greater frequency and some alarm. Wrangell druggist Alan Norgaard had more than a brief glimpse of a wolf one evening last week while on a walk around the airport loop with his rottweiler, Kaiser. Norgaard paused at the airport rock pit, then prepared to move on, when a “big dog” ran across the road and proceeded to follow them. Getting nervous after several attempts to shoo away the creature, Norgaard stopped at the airport terminal, and went inside to tell about his strange walking companion. The next evening police, after briefly trying to trap the wolf, shot it, citing the need to avoid possible human danger from an animal which had no natural fear of people.