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Chilkat Center upgrades underway
The Chilkat Center stage area looked like a Christmas-morning living room Monday, stacked with empty boxes containing about $200,000 in electronic...
Rasmuson at heart of museum's collection of local art
The Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center has acquired a $29,000 scrimshaw etching and a $6,000 portrait of Native elder Charlie Jimmie Sr. under grants...
Hatchery chum bounty may slip
Though still early for predictions, a combination of market and supply issues may reduce local income from chum salmon, the species that drives the...
Advisory committee to meet
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet in the Haines Borough Assembly chambers 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. The agenda will...
Scott, longtime clinic administrator, retires after 20 years
After 20 years, Marcia Scott has retired as administrator at the Haines Health Clinic. Scott started as a receptionist in 1994, when the non-profit...
Craney to staff LCC office, lead outreach
Katie Craney is Lynn Canal Conservation’s new conservation coordinator. She’ll be spokesperson for the group, with duties including membership...
Crime, weather left mark on 2014
The Haines Borough, its school and police department, came under new management in 2014, a year marked by lopsided weather patterns, infrastructure...
Sosa seeks $100K for dock plan
Haines Borough manager David Sosa is asking the assembly to appropriate $100,000 from the Lutak Dock enterprise fund for continued planning and...
Sebens to lead play; auditions in January
Auditions will be held in January for “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a play by Lynn Canal Community Players that director Tod Sebens hopes to stage by...
New members elected to advisory committee
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee met last week for its annual elections, voting in Ryan Cook and re-electing Randy Jackson to...
Preschool will pursue Willard site
The Chilkat Valley Preschool board last week voted to pursue a Willard Street commercial building as the school’s new site. Also, at January’s Hai...
School board taps Tiffany DeWitt, Mike Wilson
Following a 20-minute closed-door session to “compare and contrast” candidates, the Haines Borough School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoi...
Corps permit sought for Juneau Road
The Alaska Department of Transportation this week applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fill or dredge about 100 acres of...
Christmas follies seeks more acts
Acts are still needed for the annual Holly Jolly Christmas Follies, a lighthearted Christmas variety show. Annette Smith of the Lynn Canal Community...
Fish agency approves new highway plan
After panning the Haines Highway expansion project last year, the federal National Marine Fisheries Service has determined the state has made enough...
Invitations to Lutak Dock meeting cause rift
A private development group in Haines is holding its own meeting on the Lutak Dock after discovering participation in a Haines Borough-sponsored event...
Valley foundation gives $15K to 14 nonprofits
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation last week awarded $15,500 to 14 local nonprofits, doubling the number of groups that received funding last yea...
Advisory committee to hold elections, discuss proposals
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Council will elect three new members at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the assembly chambers. Two,...
Editorials
Christmas lights already strung around town are a welcome sight. It’s been gray around here since June and the weatherman says we’re in for more....
Summit to explore fix of Lutak Dock
Haines Borough Manager David Sosa is bringing a facilitator from the University of Alaska Anchorage to Haines Dec. 4-5 to help “facilitate the conve...
Assembly opposes Juneau road plan
The Haines Borough Assembly is remaining firm in its opposition to the proposed East Side Lynn Canal Highway. The assembly voted 5-0 at its Oct. 28 me...
Second, full-time reporter starts; KHNS holds fund drive
Emily Files, the new, full-time reporter at public radio station KHNS, arrived in Haines this week...
Arts Outlook
River Talk returns to center Nov. 20 The “Chilkat Chit Chat Cafe” is reopening for this season’s River Talk program 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20....
Egan, Williams vie to represent Haines in Senate
Incumbent Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, and Tom Williams, R-Juneau, are squaring off to represent Senate District Q in the Alaska Legislature, but Willi...