Month: August 2012

Hospital and EMS test their response skills

Wrangell’s EMS team and hospital staff attended to 30 volunteer patients during...

The 2012-13 school year brings new technology, new curriculum

It’s the first day of school in the Wrangell School District, and about 312 students are headed back to class. This year, the students will encounter major technological upgrades. District Superintendent Rich Rhodes said that...

Former Navy SEAL says new Bin Laden mission book may not be as problematic as first assumed

Last week Fox News revealed that former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette wrote a new memoir about the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, “No Easy Day.” Bissonnette’s family used to live in Wrangell but he grew up in Aniak, a village...

KSTK installs new satellite

KSTK recently installed a new satellite dish with funds from National Public Radio in Washington,...

Former Navy SEAL grew up in a village near Bethel, excelled at paintball

It’s not everyday that a person from a tiny remote village in Alaska gets national attention. But that’s what’s happening to Matt Bissonnette, a former Navy Seal who has penned a book titled “No Easy Day”, about killing Osama...