Articles from the January 21, 2021 edition
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Seven weeks after slide, full extent of recovery aid still unknown
On Tuesday, the state submitted to FEMA a “Preliminary Damage Assessment,” cataloging damage to public and private infrastructure in the wake of...
Haines COVID-19 vaccination rate nears 40 percent
Roughly 580 Haines residents received the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last weekend... Full story
Legislative intern boards flight despite testing positive for COVID-19
A University of Alaska student intern passing through Haines boarded an Alaska Seaplanes flight last week, despite testing positive for the COVID-19...
Remote sellers tax yields $125K in first three quarters of 2020
The Haines Borough's loss of pandemic related sales tax revenues this summer has been offset by the...
Small landslide indicates instability in Beach Road area, EOC says
A small landslide occurred on the southeast flank of the Dec. 2 Beach Road slide path between...
Assembly makes plan to address Haines' bear problem
The Haines Borough Assembly’s Commerce Committee began chipping away at a plan to address the borough’s bear problem at a meeting Tuesday. The...
Avalanche Center tracks rainfall data
A new rain-monitoring tracker on the Haines Avalanche Center’s website was created earlier this month and is intended to provide a convenient locati...
First Alaska state ferry sinks at Anacortes dock
The first ship built for what would become Alaska's state ferry system sank Jan. 13 in a windstorm...
CIA applies for funding to repair borough roads damaged by landslides and flooding
The Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) is partnering with the Haines Borough to secure funding to repair local roads damaged by the early December...
Science Cowboy
Dear Precipitation Ponderers- There are way too many factors that affect the snow-to-rain conversion calculation for me to give you a definitive...
Put healing ahead of divisiveness
I would like to respond to Sharon Resnick’s letter from last week. Since I also worked in Emergency Logistics under Sylvia Heinz and Brenda...
Get away from 'Big Tech'
Looks as if Big Tech is wishing that America would be the next USSR and that they will be the next Pravda. Look it up if you don’t understand. Some...
A road is less risky than crossing the slide
Many displaced residents from the Beach Road landslide in Haines are trying to get a controlled access road built across the slide so that they can...
Thanks for keeping Trump out of office
I am aware that this letter will probably not make it much further than the Haines area, but hopefully it will find its way into the hands of even a...
Duly Noted
Aaliyah Michelle Houghton-Bynum was born on Jan. 16 in Anchorage to Karlie Spud and George Houghton-Bynum of Klukwan. She was 5 pounds 9 ounces and...
