Wrangell Sentinel -

The borough completed its unprecedented mass review of all property values on the road system last week, with only seven of the initial 179 assessment appeals going to a formal hearing before the Board of Equalization.

All the other cases were resolved without a hearing. Most of the appeals succeeded in achieving some level of reduction in the appraised value — only 24 remained unchanged after appellants met with an assessor.

It had been years since the borough conducted such a comprehensive review, and the reexamination raised the overall assessed value of all buildings and land in the b...