The Wrangell Borough Assembly will consider adding a fifth, full-time position that’s split between the water and wastewater treatment plant operations. That’s one of the items on the assembly’s agenda at its regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday night.
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Freight is Wrangell’s lifeline, like other Southeast Alaska communities. The borough decommissioned its barge ramp earlier this year. Since then, officials have been figuring out where to put the new one. Engineers deemed he 47-year-old ramp unsafe due to its deteriorating structure.
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Episode 66: Sept. 2 marks Ronan Rooney’s fifth year anniversary of his multimedia project, Wrangell History Unlocked. It consists of his podcast, a blog and a historical timeline of archival footage he’s helped uncover. He spoke with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki about his commitment to historical storytelling, how he juggles working simultaneously on a variety of Wrangell stories and his journey throughout the last five years with the project.
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About a dozen people during Wrangell’s annual Bear Fest this summer were busy painting dead fish or drying out their fresh new prints with hairdryers in Wrangell’s Nolan Center. The room was mostly quiet, except for the hairdryer blowing and a gentle chatter between people every now and then. Fish from the Fourth of July’s Scrap Derby lay in a cooler full of ice. There’s also rubber molds of salmon and halibut on a table to the side in the large room.
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The vote came after months of debate on creating a city ordinance regarding micromobility devices — or e-bikes and e-scooters. The Wrangell Borough Assembly decided not to enforce a minimum age for people riding the devices, and to follow state law to reduce liability for the city and borough.
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