Articles from the December 17, 2020 edition
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What can Haines learn from Sitka's deadly landslide?
On Aug. 18, 2015 more than 40 landslides fell across Baranof and Chichagof Islands. The largest slid...
Beach Road residents must reckon with long-term risk of living under Mount Riley
As geoscientists learn more about the Beach Road slide and the geology of Mount Riley, area...
33 residents still displaced; nine homes destroyed
As of Tuesday, 14 residents were registered to spend the night in Red Cross-provided housing, down from 101 early last week. Interim borough manager...
COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Alaska but will take longer to reach Haines
The first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Alaska late Sunday. As of Wednesday, it was unclear when the vaccine will arrive in...
Messages of support and donations pour into Chilkat Valley
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and supplies have entered Haines in the wake of the Dec. 2 landslide, including roughly $450,000 raised...
Haines receives massive grant to expand behavioral health services post-disaster
Local agencies and partners at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau have two weeks to spend an unprecedented $1.4 million the state is channeling...
Big Brothers Big Sisters can match again
In 2018, a funding shortfall prompted Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska to stop making new matches in Haines, but a new state grant will help at...
EOC opens southernmost part of Beach Road
Residents at the southernmost end of Beach Road can return home after state geologists downgraded...
Borough completes temporary repairs to storm-damaged infrastructure
By Ceri Godinez The Haines Borough finished temporary repairs to public infrastructure on Friday, Dec. 11 and is transitioning to long-term repair...
Borough to solicit Lutak Dock development proposal from AIDEA
The Haines Borough Assembly asked interim manager Alekka Fullerton to reach out to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) rega...
Hometown teacher achieved her dreams
Lifelong resident and first-year kindergarten teacher Jenae Larson is missing and is believed to...
Simmons traveled the world, found home in Haines
Haines Economic Development Corporation executive director David Simmons, 30, is missing and...
Assembly Briefs
Manager hiring process to begin Dec. 21 The Haines Borough Assembly has agreed to engage the services of consultant Lenise Henderson-Fontenot, who...
I've never been more proud of Haines
I have never felt so much pride in, so much compassion for, or so much love for a community as I have felt in the last two weeks. My faith in...
Thanks to neighbors for a helping hand
It is our creek that was responsible for the “7 Mile Slide” on the Haines Highway. All of the boulders and rock debris made it to the road via...
Christmas came early
For Christmas this year I got: • A fancy hotel room at the Aspen for a week; • Dozens of new friends; • A different person/restaurant made me...
How can we further help Beach Road residents?
I am worried about the folks who have been evacuated from their homes on Beach Road, unable to return due to the instability of the mountain above...
Stop gulping for air
What is happening across the globe right now is not the “Great Reset,” but “The Great Leap Forward” once implemented in “well meaning” soc...
Let's hope the waters still
On Dec. 21 a rare astronomical event, one replete with literary significance, will be visible for the first time in 800 years. A conjunction between...
Duly Noted
Frank Hickman and Rita Brouillette welcomed twin boys: Cyrus Rockford Hickman and Gunnar Cruz Hickman on Sept. 27 in Anchorage. The boys are joined...
