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(2001) Professional photographer Gary Braasch leads a workshop in the eagle preserve.
November 1971
This newspaper's staff has recently been taken to task for not publishing more local news.
We, of course, plead guilty, and remind readers: the production of the paper is a "moonlighting" operation-although it sometimes turns into a "sunrising" one. Our staff usually finds it a chore just to get the news we do have into print at all. We don't do an adequate job of covering the news beats because we usually don't have the time.
However, we are always willing to publish the news you send in. If any of you, gentle readers, will send us material, we'll do our best to see that it is printed. For compensation, you'll have to be willing to settle for editor's wages-nothing.
November 1996
Former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond hailed the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve as a "crown jewel in the annals of cooperative resource management" in a speech to a full Chilkat Center crowd.
Hammond, who as governor signed the legislation creating the preserve, kicked off the 2nd Alaska Bald Eagle Festival by expounding on his land use philosophy, prescribing political reforms and relating anecdotes to a largely reverential crowd.
Because the preserve accommodated traditional land uses except one damaging to biological values, it was more agreeable than a park that would have excluded many uses outright, Hammond said.
The preserve model of land management should have been applied to more lands state-wide and Hammond urged the federal government to adopt it for federal lands in Alaska, but was foiled by fears of Alaska developers and environmentalists in the Lower 48.
November 2001
Since receiving word in late September that Haines was awarded a $2 million federal grant to rehabilitate Lutak Dock, acting city manager Vince Hansen has been preparing to set the project in motion.
Hansen said last week he was working on the project's engineering design solicitation, adding that if that solicitation went out by the end of last week, an engineering bid could be complete by mid-December.
And if that happens, Hansen said designs could be complete by the end of March, and construction on the project could be underway by April or May 2002.
The acting city manager recently provided the city council with an updated summary of the $2.7 million project, as well as a breakdown of the costs.
