Author: Colette Czarnecki

Under the shell in Wrangell’s yards

Atlas walks around her fairly large pen in Charity Hommel’s living room. Circular windows embedded in the plywood allow the sulcata tortoise to peer out into the living space beyond her own quarters. Also known as an African spurred tortoise, she breathes through her nostrils, which are above her mouth. It sounds mildly high pitched-like when someone inflates a bicycle tire with a pump.

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Wrangell Sentinel reporter speaks up about her life

Reporter Becca Clark moved to Southeast Alaska to work for the Wrangell Sentinel in early spring. Since then, she’s attended lots of City Hall meetings and cultural events on the island. But who is Becca Clark? KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki met up with her to learn a little more about one of Wrangell’s newer citizens. Clark said she grew up in the northeastern part of the U.S. 

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