Editing Wrangell, Alaska (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Shakes Island.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Totem pole]]s at the Shakes house]]
[[File:Wrangell downtown.JPG|thumb|right|Wrangell downtown]]
In an election held on May 6, 2008, to decide whether to upgrade from city to borough status, 63.99% of the votes were in favor of borough status.<ref name=incvote>{{cite web |title=2008 Wrangel Incorporation Election: May 6, 2008: Official Results |date=May 30, 2008 |work=Division of Elections |publisher=State of Alaska |url=http://www.elections.alaska.gov/08WRAI/08wrai_results.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408062424/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/08WRAI/08wrai_results.pdf |archive-date=April 8, 2010}}</ref> On May 30, 2008, Wrangell was reincorporated as the City and Borough of Wrangell.<ref name="DCRA">{{cite web | url = http://dcra.commerce.alaska.gov/DCBD/municipal%20Certificates/Boroughs/Wrangell_Borough.pdf | title = Certificate of Incorporation of the City and Borough of Wrangell | date = May 30, 2008 | publisher = [[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development]], Division of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA) | access-date = May 4, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100615143831/http://dcra.commerce.alaska.gov/DCBD/Municipal%20Certificates/Boroughs/Wrangell_Borough.pdf | archive-date = June 15, 2010 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Canadian American Donald McConachie Sr. was the first mayor of the CBW. He was succeeded by Jeremy M. Maxand, but was elected in 2012 as mayor again after Maxand declined to seek reelection.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-04/wrangell-race-tips-mcconachie-2-votes#.UHzpr8VX0oh|agency=Juneau Empire|title=Wrangell race tips to McConachie - by 2 votes|date=October 4, 2012|access-date=October 15, 2012|first=Mark|last=Miller}}</ref>

The Wrangell Cooperative Association has commissioned a team to restore Chief Shakes House and the totems at Totem Park. It consists of a master carver, Wayne Price, and six assistants, four of them women, accepted after intensive training in the use of the traditional [[adze]] tool.<ref>[http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12233&Itemid=80 Kate Spielberger, "Wrangell carvers making history renovating site"], AP, Juneau, Alaska, in ''Indian Country News'', November 2011, accessed November 7, 2011</ref>