City Park will get a second pavilion next year

If you’ve enjoyed City Park’s newly refurbished pavilion this summer, you might be twice as happy now.

The borough recently approved a construction contract for a new pavilion in City Park, and the best part: Wrangell hardly has to pay anything for it. The new pavilion replaces the structure that was destroyed in a November 2021 windstorm. It will be built exactly where the old one stood, a couple hundred feet south of the pavilion upgraded this summer.

Following the storm, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management allocated around $130,000 to Wrangell for a new pavilio...