Before summer gives way to autumn, several Wrangell business owners decided to have one more hurrah downtown with food and live music.

Set for Sunday afternoon, "Warm August Nights" was thought up by Heidi Milazzo, Clay Culbert, Lucy Robinson, Brooke Leslie and Brenda Schwartz-Yeager. "All of us have been working on it together," said Milazzo. "We just wanted to have a fun family event."

Culbert pointed out the lull in local activities around August, with not much by way of entertainment between Bearfest at the end of July and Halloween festivities. With a chance of some late summer sunshine a...