“It’s really easy to be like, ‘Oh, no one cares about art,’” junior Paige Baggen said. “But no, so many other people feel exactly the same way I do. So many people think it’s so important.”
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Near Wrangell, the search for a shipwreck that took the lives of Asian cannery workers a hundred years ago
An eight-person crew of scientists, artists and divers are trying to locate the site of one of the deadliest shipwrecks in Alaska history.
Alaska Seaplanes adds daily run connecting Sitka, Wrangell and Petersburg
The daily flights will depart Sitka at 1 p.m., touching down in Petersburg and Wrangell before returning to Sitka by 3 p.m.
Wrangell fisherman Otto Florschutz is running to fill Alaska’s seat in the US House
Florschutz has been elected multiple times to Wrangell’s Port Commission and has served for decades on Wrangell’s Fish and Game Advisory Committee.
Wrangell students hope to win Vans shoe design contest to fund high school art program
Wrangell students say they’re confident in their two painted pairs of canvas sneakers that could earn their school’s art program up to $50,000 in prize money.
Alaska Board of Fisheries seat remains vacant more than one month after deadline to appoint successor
A spokesperson for Gov. Dunleavy said that the administration is still taking applications for the vacant seat on the Alaska Board of Fisheries.