The Wrangell Borough Assembly unanimously voted Tuesday evening to extend the borough's COVID-19 emergency declaration through March to ensure the community remains eligible for any financial assistance. The assembly also voted to extend its resolution allowing the suspension of in-person assembly meetings until it can make accommodations for social distancing.

The assembly declaration retroactively extends through March an emergency ordinance that had expired Dec. 31, which was a continuation of a similar emergency declaration of last March that expired in October.

"In order to ensure the...