Wrangell Borough Assembly will discuss several budget items at its meeting Tuesday night. That includes how much the borough should give to the local school district. The assembly will consider approving the local contribution of $1.3 million for the next fiscal year. That’s $450,000 less than the school district requested.
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Sixth grader Erika Jabusch and her brother, Jimmy, recently interviewed their grandfather, Jeff Jabusch, for a documentary they were producing about the Wrangell Hoop Shoot.
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Master weaver Holly Churchill of Ketchikan visited Wrangell during the last week of March. She instructed a group of people to weave traditional Haida hats out of cedar bark. The group spent 40 hours at the Wrangell Cooperative Association Cultural Center, preparing the cedar strips and keeping the plant material hydrated. The final step was the actual weaving. Some students have weaved before while others not-so-much. In addition, other students have more practice with Ravenstail weaving, which uses animal fibers, not cedar.
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Wrangell residents have until May 20 to apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster assistance. The financial assistance is for the deadly landslide that happened last November.
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Episode 11 of Talk on the Rock. Sue Bahleda talks with KSTK’s News Director about her role as a pastor at Island of Faith Lutheran Church in Wrangell. She also chats about how she and her husband, Bill, made it to Southeast Alaska from Michigan, which involves her own journey from being an American Sign Language interpreter to ministry. She discusses the church’s community movie nights and her love for movie scores, show tunes and trivia. Later on in the show we surprise her with a trivia match that she plays with the Wrangell Sentinel’s reporter, Mark Robinson.
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