Beth Sandefur News Today

Tongass School of Arts and Sciences fifth grader Paisley King earned the district spelling bee title in a fast-paced competition held on the evening of Feb. 22 at Fawn Mountain

Schoenbar Middle School students wrapped the school year with a project designed to commemorate the World War II Aleut relocation camp that once operated at Ward Lake. To understand the history of relocation camps in Southeast Alaska — including the Ketchikan area — more than 200 seventh- and eighth-graders across three English classes at Schoenbar read the book "Aleutian Sparrow" by Karen Hesse, a historical fiction novel written in verse about the Ward Lake camp that was opened in t...