The Borough Assembly met in open session on Tuesday, Oct 25 to hammer out a unified message with the Wrangell Medical Center Board – and to look to the citizens of Wrangell to vote in the Nov. 15 special election.

That election will put before the voters a proposed ordinance that would authorize the borough to pledge 29 acres of property at the site of the new hospital. The buildings to be raised there would also be pledged as collateral on a $24.7 million U.S.D.A. loan.

The preliminary text of a public statement put together by Mayor Jeremy Maxand and WMC Board President Mark Robinson st...