Colette Czarnecki, Author at KSTK

State Rep. Jeremy Bynum talks Southeast Alaska infrastructure during Wrangell visit

Alaska State Representative Jeremy Bynum visited Wrangell Oct. 25 to meet with constituents and visit some of the borough’s new developments, like Alder Top Village that will have housing and the deep water port mill area.

Talk on the Rock: Coven Petticrew on dance revitalization, cultural healing and Tlingit dance group Ch’xasaan

Episode 84: Coven Petticrew has been deeply connected with revitalizing cultural dance for decades. He practiced it in the Aleutians and now he’s helping organize a Tlingit dance group in Wrangell, called Ch’xasaan. It acknowledges the first Raven village in the area and it means “waterfall town.” Petticrew talked with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki on the meaning behind dance revitalization and how it’s a meaningful source for healing.

One incumbent returns to Tribal Council; WCA welcomes three new council members

Wrangell’s local tribe has announced the unofficial results of yesterday’s Tribal council election.

Wrangell Cooperative Association Tribal Council election approaches; meet five of the candidates

Six candidates have been nominated to run for four seats on Wrangell Cooperative Association’s Tribal Council for this year’s election.

After a winter storm collapsed grow tunnels, a local farm presses on

Dwane Ballou is giving me a tour of his family run small-scale farm, Oceanview Gardens. After the past six years, they are one of a few growers in Wrangell who supply the community with fresh produce and flowers. Our footsteps crunch under the gravel and ice crystals that settled on the ground. We’re looking at four of the farm’s grow tunnels, mostly with torn plastic hanging on the sides and no plastic on top. Dented and disjointed metal keep the structure of one tunnel standing. A couple months ago there was no wreckage, until the snow started falling.