 In 2017 SEARHC merged with local non-profit Alaska Island Community Services to form AICS, a Division of Searhc.In 1943 the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissioned artist Austin Mecklem and his wife, Marianne Greer Appel, to paint a mural, "Old Town in Alaska", intended for the Wrangell post office.The work was completed at their studio in New York state, transported via railway on Oct 19, 1943, arrived in Wrangell in December 1943 and installed in early 1944.