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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Voices chatter and drums beat while hundreds of people gathered in a drive through lot next to a tribal carving shed in Wrangell on a warm, clear July day. Their eyes watched about 50 people crouched down to wooden beams on the ground, beneath a two-ton red cedar totem pole. The lead carver of this new pole instructs those standing next to the beams.
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