From impressive athletic successes and community celebrations to business closures and painful losses, Wrangell's 2022 was full of engaging stories, both triumphant and tragic.

Last January was a month of new beginnings. Issabella and Tawney Crowley welcomed Wrangell's first baby of the year, Ryleigh Rowan Crowley, into the world on Jan. 4 at the Ketchikan Medical Center.

The Decker family established a memorial scholarship fund to honor Sig and Helen Decker, two former Wrangell residents who died in a car crash in Petersburg July 2020.

However, January was also a month of endings. The SEA...