The new online subsistence dashboard includes data on sockeye fisheries monitoring as well as wildlife regulatory changes and boundaries. There are live maps to help harvesters better navigate current regulations.
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U.S. Army Vietnam era veteran Val Cooday was one of dozens of people who paddled canoes up through Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage this summer. They were heading to Celebration – a biennial festival in Juneau that honors the region’s Indigenous people. The voyage was healing and inspirational to some participants, including Cooday. To her, the number of paddlers seem to grow more and more each time.
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Wrangell’s assembly will consider changing the Parks and Recreation Board’s meeting requirements in the municipal code. At Tuesday’s meeting, the assembly could modify the code from meeting monthly to quarterly. The proposal says the change should relieve any strain that staff and board members experience while putting together monthly meeting packets, according to Parks Director Lucy Robinson.
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Two propositions will be on Wrangell’s ballot in next month’s municipal election.
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Wrangell’s polishing pond, which is one of the two treatment ponds at the community’s wastewater treatment plant, flooded on Saturday. Staff also noticed that the outfall line wasn’t flowing. That’s the line where treated sewage water flows into the ocean.
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