Author: Sage Smiley

‘The Sound of Music’ breaks Wrangell’s 20-year community theater dry spell this week

More than 40 Wrangell residents are helping bring the musical “The Sound of Music” to the stage. To give an inside look, KSTK reporter Sage Smiley dons a different hat – a nun’s wimple, to be precise.

Wrangell Family Resilience Fair celebrates 5 years

The fair aims to bring resources together to show how the community can help local families. Local organizations set up tables at the 5th Annual Family Resilience Fair on November 19.

15 Southeast Tribes seek involvement as sovereign nations in Canadian mine permitting processes

More than a dozen Southeast Alaska tribal governments and councils are asking the provincial government of British Columbia to recognize their sovereignty and give them a seat at the decision-making table when natural resource development could impact the communities downstream.

Learning Lingít at lunch

Some Wrangell residents are using their lunchtimes to learn the critically endangered Lingít language – Wrangell’s tribe is sponsoring a year of beginning Lingít classes for adults.

Southeast’s 2022 commercial salmon harvest was half as large last year’s, but worth millions more

Even though the total harvest was half of last year’s (58 million catch), the total value at the docks for Southeast increased by $12 million this year.