Wrangell will get $43 million federal grant for 6-Mile, waterfront and flume

Wrangell’s efforts to add to its downtown waterfront, develop the former 6-Mile Mill property for a possible shipyard and replace its leaking water diversion flume to the community reservoirs will receive a $43 million boost from the federal government.

The borough applied this past spring for a federal Economic Development Administration Industry Transformation Pathway Grant.

The official announcement is not expected until later this month, but Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a tight reelection race, delivered the news last week.

Sullivan, who is seeking a third term, was in Ketchikan for...