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 By Tom Morphet    News    November 12, 2015

Preschool to consider 2 options

Chilkat Valley Preschool officials say they’ll be looking at alternatives – including acquiring the Haines Borough’s Human Resources Building,...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 12, 2015

Fish and Game office expecting cuts in '16

The job of managing commercial fisheries in Haines could become tougher next year, as the local department faces deep cuts. A $90,000 cut to...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 12, 2015

Coroner to probe death downtown

An autopsy will be conducted on Jay Proetto, a 67-year-old Haines man found dead Saturday afternoon near an alley off Main Street. He had been seen...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 5, 2015

Board drops plan for preschool

In a decision fraught with tears and recriminations, the Haines Borough School Board voted 5-2 Monday against moving forward with a memorandum of...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 5, 2015

21st eagle festival hosts war veterans

The American Bald Eagle Festival will host two veterans from recent U.S. wars as part of its six-day celebration of America’s bird. “To me,...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 5, 2015

Pellets replace woodstove that burned free wood

The Haines Senior Center lost a low-cost heat source when the Haines Borough replaced a large woodstove in the building in late summer with a pellet...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    November 5, 2015

Hilltop subdivision clears first planning hurdle

The Haines Borough Planning Commission unanimously approved initial design of the 72-lot Hilltop subdivision at its Oct. 15 meeting, after hearing...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 29, 2015

Value of salmon fishery plummets

Smaller salmon, fewer of them and reduced prices paid by buyers dropped the gross value of the Lynn Canal gillnet harvest to its lowest point in at...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 29, 2015

Borough CIP Fund, fish tax ID'd as harbor project funding

At separate meetings last week, commercial fishermen and Haines Borough officials identified potential funding sources for the harbor expansion...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 29, 2015

Rebuilt Battery Point trail garners praise

Hikers are giving good reviews to the Battery Point trail following completion of its reconstruction late last month. “It’s a great...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 29, 2015

Vote on preschool Monday

A proposed agreement between the Haines Borough School District and Chilkat Valley Preschool to site the preschool program at the Haines School...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Borough will fight planned ferry cuts

Haines Borough officials are organizing a community response to a planned reduction in ferry service that tourism director Leslie Ross describes as...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Museum name change not yet final

Should the Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center go by a different name? The museum’s board of directors favors such a move, but it will wait to hear...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Youths crowd swim after donor pays for pool time

A private donation providing free admission boosted the numbers of youths taking advantage of a new swim at the Haines pool. Pool manager RaeAnn...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

More than 2 decades gone, city league hoops return

By Tom Morphet After a departure that lasted two decades or more, regular city league basketball games have returned, with four men’s teams...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

King's Store to close 5 months

By Tom Morphet King’s Store will close for five months starting Oct. 31, and a winter closure may become permanent, owner Bev Jones said this week....

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Funding passes 'tipping point'; center to open May 14

By Tom Morphet A determination that federal trail-building funds could be used for a visitor’s center helped trigger funding that in mid-May will...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Grapplers earn spots at finals in Wrangell

Two Haines grapplers reached the finals of a Wrangell tournament last weekend, but each finished as a runner-up. Sophomore Cameron Merklin-Bauer (126...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Volleyball notches a victory in Petersburg

The Haines High School volleyball team picked up one win at a seven-team Petersburg tournament last weekend. The Glacier Bears topped Skagway, but...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Hearing Wednesday on revised highway expansion

The state Department of Transportation will hold public meetings in Haines and Klukwan Oct. 28 on the draft revised environmental assessment of...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Reclclers consider 're-store'

Haines Friends of Recycling board members will meet early next year to consider the future of a “Re-Store Sale,” an effort to sell used materials...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Committee brings on McDonough, Poinsette

Tim McDonough and Derek Poinsette were elected last week to the State’s Fish and Wildlife Upper Lynn Canal Advisory Committee. Five other seats on...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Klukwan opens preschool

A new preschool program at Klukwan School has attracted between five and seven students and is a “win-win” for the Chatham School District,...

 
 By Tom Morphet    News    October 22, 2015

Borough explores economic development options

The Haines Borough Assembly’s commerce committee on Wednesday endorsed exploring a shift that would put its economic development efforts under a...

 

Duly Noted

Longtime Haines School art teacher Linnus Danner was awaiting surgery at an Anchorage hospital early this week after suffering a broken leg in a bicyc...

 

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