A team of about 10 people just returned from their second trip mapping and surveying the old shipwreck site of the Star of Bengal, about 80 miles west of Wrangell close to Coronation Island. Over 100 cannery workers died when the ship went down.
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Wrangell City Hall on June 26, 2024. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK) The Central Council of Tlingit &...
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About a dozen students were sitting down at work tables, with glue bottles standing up and pieces of colored glass in their bowls, clattering against each other when the teenaged artists’ hands reached in to extract the desired piece. They’re arranging the glass on ceramic tiles in front of them. A couple other students ground down glass while a noisy machine buzzed on a nearby counter. This is the second day of the mosaic stained glass workshop for Southeast Alaska’s Art Fest held last month in Wrangell.
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Fifteen Wrangell seniors graduated high school May 16. KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki stopped by the school gym where they were setting up for their ceremony later that night to see how they’re feeling. The graduates in the gym shared memories while in school and what’s next for them. Daniel Harrison and Lucas Schneider were not present during the interviews. KSTK sends this audio postcard.
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Episode 56: Latoya Adams first stopped in KSTK to talk about and introduce Kansas City’s hip-hop and country artist Krizz Kaliko. He’s putting on three keynote events with the Wrangell Cooperative Association’s Bouncing Back program in relation to mental health and the 2023 landslide that devastated the community. He also briefly chatted about his transition from hip-hop to country music and what that’s been like for him.
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