The Wrangell School Board voted unanimously Monday [Jan. 19] to open a new K-12 certified librarian position that will also focus on media and literacy instruction, but some say the district should adjust existing roles instead of creating a new one.
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Wood chips and sawdust cover the floor as carver Mike Hoyt rhythmically adzes a red cedar pole. Some chips and dust lay on the older totems laying horizontally nearby in the Wrangell Cooperative Association’s Cultural Center and Carving Shed. Initially, he felt bad about that. But then …
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Wrangell’s High School science teacher Heather Howe is the president of the Wrangell Teachers’ Association. She said the district struggles to keep paraprofessionals long-term and she hopes the union can change that.
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A grand jury in Juneau, for the state of Alaska’s First Judicial District, indicted 66-year old Wrangell resident Steven Ray Marshall Thursday for two drug-related felonies: for allegedly possessing 478.8 grams of methamphetamine and for the intent to deliver.
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Wrangell’s borough assembly will discuss its capital project priorities at a special meeting Wednesday. The list will be sent to the state and federal governments with the hopes that the projects will get funding.
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