Articles from the September 2, 2021 edition
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Late Chilkoot River sockeye run causes surprise, nostalgia
Fishermen in Lutak Inlet saw a bumper run of sockeye salmon in the last two weeks of August as more than 24,000 fish passed the weir between Aug. 22...
Juneau hospital answers Haines' call for mental health help
Haines’ mental health care needs aren’t being met, wrote Haines Borough mayor Doug Olerud in an Aug. 18 letter to Juneau’s Bartlett Regional...
Local lifeguard saves surfer
An experienced California surfer riding the bore tide wave on Turnagain Arm near Anchorage credits...
Chilkoot Indian Association seats two new members after tribal elections
The Chilkoot Indian Association’s council chair and vice chair, Les Katzeek and James Hart, were unseated at last week’s election. The three...
Art students ollie into skate park mural project
Armed with paint brushes, rollers and rolls of tape, Haines High School art students launched a...
Haines' COVID-19 case count drops as state numbers escalate
As Alaska eclipsed its record for the number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19, the Haines Borough’s case count dropped to six active...
Five candidates run for contested school board election
Five candidates for school board are running for four open seats next month. The race is one of the first contested elections for school board in...
Gaps in Haines service persist in published winter ferry schedule
Last week the state published its fall/winter ferry schedule, from Oct. 1 through April. As proposed in the draft schedule released in July, Haines...
Family wonders if missing relative came to Haines; police say no evidence
The sister of Joseph Clayton, a 48-year-old Oregon man that went missing in Juneau on Aug. 20, thinks that Clayton might have boarded a ferry to...
Correction
Last week’s article “Students Return to School with a greater sense of normalcy,” incorrectly reported that the Mat-Su school district...
McDonald, local musician, painter dies at 51
Obituary submitted by Travis Kukull. Peter McDonald died Thursday, Aug. 26 in his sleep while...
Shout-out to varied perspectives
Here’s my shout-out to the process that led to the very first local public piece that I’m aware of that expresses something other than MSM...
Please consider impact of heliski permit
Dear community of Haines. My name is Bruce Bauer, owner of the Funny Farm since 1997. As I have been involved in the heliski industry since its...
Huling would be an invaluable asset
We are fortunate to have a young person of Tyler Huling’s caliber running for a seat on the Haines Borough Assembly. Tyler is a lifelong Alaskan...
Vote for Debra!
What a nice surprise it was to see that Debra Schnabel was running for assembly. Debra brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the job from...
Huling will be a great assembly member
We are so lucky to have someone like Tyler Huling running for the Borough Assembly! I’ve been friends with Tyler since college. Hearing her stories...
Duly Noted
Credit Blake Ward with finding Asher Jimenez’s lost mountain bike. Blake was throwing a Frisbee with his girlfriend on the lot in front of the Presb...
