Three Wrangell residents charged with drug felonies
Three Wrangell residents are being charged with felonies for manufacturing or delivering methamphetamine.
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Talk on the Rock: Calleigh Miller on sourdough and her micro bakery – Clearwater Baking
Episode 54: Imagine visiting a tiny structure, filled with baked goods and instructions on how to pay through the honor system. That’s Wrangell’s Clearwater Baking. Calleigh Miller chatted with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki about recently opening up her micro bakery. She started her sourdough journey in Jan. 2024 and it grew from there, when people requested her to make them baked goods. Miller said most of her treats are sourdough, like her jalapeno cheddar focaccia and cookies. But each week is never the same. People can preorder through her Facebook site, Clearwater Baking.
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School district forms ad hoc committee for budget crisis
About 30 people packed the school board meeting room at Evergreen Elementary on April 14.
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Tribal commission worries about British Columbia’s mining regulations; mine company states they operate sustainably
Red Chris Mine sits 25 miles from Alaska’s border in the Stikine River Watershed. It has operated for a decade, but its ownership changed two years ago. Before the new company, Newmont, bought the mine, conservation scientists conducted research over a seven year span. Newmont has made some environmental adjustments since they acquired the mine in 2023. But they are also hoping to expand the copper and gold mine, which is already bigger than Wrangell Island. That’s even after an environmental report was published last month. It shows heavy metals have leached into a transboundary Alaska and British Columbia watershed. Communities downstream of the Stikine River are concerned about this, including Wrangell’s tribal government, the Wrangell Cooperative Association.
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Federal subsistence king salmon fishery closes this season on Stikine River
The Wrangell Ranger District will close the federal subsistence Chinook or king salmon fishery in the Stikine River between May 15 and June 30. It’s the ninth year in a row that the fishery has been closed.
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