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  • ANB/ANS Grand Camp will meet in Wrangell Oct. 1-4

    Sue Bahleda, For the Wrangell Sentinel|Sep 25, 2025

    It will be a homecoming when the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood hold their Grand Camp Oct. 1-4 in Wrangell. Wrangell’s history with the ANS goes back to the beginning. The organization was founded by Wrangell women in 1915, following on the formation of the ANB in Sitka in 1912. The 2025 Grand Camp will be held at the Nolan Center. This is the organizations’ first in-person gathering in six years, due to COVID-19 social distancing shutdowns and its aftereffects. While there have been meetings via Zoom, there is a rea...

  • Milk Run Music Fest coming to Wrangell

    Sue Bahleda, For the Wrangell Sentinel|Apr 3, 2025

    WRANGELL - Without a real plan, Olivia Strano found herself in the right place at the right time. When she walked away from her work as a yacht stewardess and onto a Wrangell dock last summer, she felt she had found her home. "I've been searching for my place for 10 years, and Wrangell is everything I've been looking for," she said. While she was working a variety of jobs to make ends meet, she asked locals what was something that Wrangell needed but didn't have. Music, music venues and more...