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'Noises Off' farce opens next Thursday
A realized dream for both director and cast members will come to the Chilkat Center stage next...
Subcommittee to inventory local trails
A new trails subcommittee workshop aims to complete an inventory assessment of trails, consider trespass issues or consider establishment of an...
HARK receives $3K grant from Nashville nonprofit
On Saturday, Haines Animal Rescue Kennel director Kay Clements found a surprise in her mailbox: an unsolicited $3,000 check and an acknowledgement as...
Tier 3 bill topic of state senate committee hearing
The Senate Resources Committee will meet on Friday at 3:30 p.m. to discuss a bill that would require three state agencies’ approval before...
Drug task force finds alcohol major contributor to crime
While the Haines Borough’s drug enforcement task force has worked since June 2017 to find solutions to drug-related issues, recent data analyzing...
Longtime PC chair passes the torch
Earlier this year, Rob Goldberg stepped down as longtime chair of Haines Borough Planning Commission to allow for new leadership in 2019. Past and...
Stanford proposes recreation memorial at 25 Mile
A proposed Chilkat Valley recreational memorial site at 25 Mile Haines Highway would honor deceased Haines residents who have promoted the outdoors...
Assembly Briefs
Schnabel to draft Portage Cove MOU A memorandum of understanding between the Haines Borough and Alaska Arts Confluence (AAC) will be drafted next week...
Business Briefs
Juneau-based firm buys local accounting business Bengie’s Business Services changed hands after nearly two decades under Bengie Stuart. In February,...
Sex crime response team lacks equipment to function
A sexual assault response team that would allow victims to be examined and treated without leaving Haines is stalled by lack of forensic equipment....
School board considers jobs, programs as cuts loom
Last week a school board work group discussed best and worst case scenarios in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed budget, including layoffs...
GAS committee pulls stakes from tents in draft housing ordinance
The Government Affairs and Services Committee advanced a recommendation to the assembly on a substitute ordinance for employee housing that would...
Group forms to keep golf course in public use
Four residents interested in forming a Friends of the Golf Course volunteer group to maintain and run the Valley of the Eagles golf course as a...
State considers status of wildlife Trooper position
State wildlife trooper Trent Chwialkowski will leave Haines before summer for a post in Cantwell, Alaska. “No decision or change has been made in...
Resource extraction debate surfaces conflict-of-interest issues for officials
For the second time in three months, planning commission members examined if their voting powers were compromised by a commissioner’s potential...
Assembly favors 'soft opening' for tour code
The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously approved a temporary change to tourism code for 2019 that will reverse by March 1, 2020 if the borough does...
Graduate students working with Dr. Oakley research Lynx and Moose in Yukon
A Canadian graduate student working with Haines’ veterinarian Michelle Oakley to research the boom and bust cycle of lynx in the Yukon presented...
Assembly directs resource extraction to committee
Borough planner Holly Smith and residents on both sides of the aisle asked the Haines Borough Assembly to hold off adopting an ordinance that would...
Pakistani intern compares Haines and home, past and present
Using gloved hands, Hina Zaidi braces each side of a brittle newspaper's pages as she turns them....
Resource extraction in Mud Bay is again on the table
The Haines Borough Planning Commission reversed course last week, advancing a code change that would allow large-scale resource extraction in the Mud...
Students reflect on Elizabeth Peratrovich's legacy
Haines students from kindergarten to 12th grade described Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth...
Tourism code goes back to committee
In the borough’s newest rendition of tourism code, administration is allowed unscheduled site visits and operators are required to submit a safety p...
Chilkat historical society works to inject energy into its mission
“Relevance” was the buzz word at the Chilkat Valley Historical Society (CVHS) meeting on Thursday, where members wordsmithed a new mission...
Call ins aimed at seniors
The Alaska Commission on Aging (ACoA) will host teleconferences every two weeks through April to a discuss a targeted “watch list” of at least...
Assembly split on water main extension
A resolution to authorize the upgrade of a water main on Mathias Avenue failed this week when assembly members Tom Morphet and Brenda Josephson said...
