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Monday was the first day of the summer reading program at the Wrangell Public Library. The program lasts for eight weeks until July 26 and culminates in a pool pizza party. With hundreds of books to choose from and 140 prize drawings to enter, the summer reading program has proven again and again to be a fun way for kids to spend the season.

Representatives from both the city councils of Petersburg and Kake were in Wrangell on Wednesday night to attend the city council workshop on the possible four dam pool divestiture. The visiting representatives are concerned with Wrangell's potential involvement with Cascade Creek and Wrangell's direction on the divestiture.

The school board is holding a special meeting tonight to take action on an initiative that would provide students with laptops. This initiative would be established through a partnership with the Association of Alaska School Boards' Consortium for Digital Learning.

After 38 years of teaching, Wrangell high school teacher Patty Gilbert is retiring.

While Wrangell's Tyee Lake hydroelectric facility is conducting its annual shut down for maintenance, the city has to run on diesel generators. Since getting power from diesel generators is more costly than getting power from Tyee, the city implements a fuel surcharge to cover the difference.