When 16-year-old Haidyn Gadd applied for a summer internship through the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, she initially wanted to work at her mom’s coffee shop.
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The Wrangell Borough Assembly tonight will consider authorizing loan applications to assist the McKinnon Street improvement project. These loans would address water and sewer utility replacement. One of the loans is at $315,719 from the Alaska Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Program. It would replace approximately 280 ft. of a six-inch asbestos cement water main.
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Wrangell Public Schools begins school Thursday and the new superintendent, Joshua Garrett, has been in the office since early July preparing.
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Ancestors of local Tlingit residents carved the petroglyph into a dark gray shale piece. It’s about 3 feet by 2.5 feet. It shows a face, with circular eyes and a lebret marking below the bottom lip. But, somebody last month destroyed the historic rock art that’s likely hundreds to thousands of years old.
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Singer-songwriter Dara Rilatos is the voice behind Juneau-based soul-funk band The Planktonics. But her musical roots go back to her childhood in Wrangell.
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