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The Wrangell Sentinel received four awards in this year’s Alaska Press Club contest, including third place for best weekly newspaper in the state.

The Nome Nugget was judged the best weekly in the state.

The awards were announced April 30, based on work in 2021.

Sentinel reporter Sarah Aslam won second place among small newspapers in the best short feature story category for her Oct. 21, 2021, reporting, “Tlingit culture, language lives on through heritage learners.” The judges described it as “an important story told with heart and purpose.”

Sentinel editor Marc Lutz took third place among sm...