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Writer and beloved teacher leaves behind enduring legacy
Teacher, writer, and influential community member, Doris Owen Ward, 93, died peacefully Sunday Jan....
AMHS draft summer schedule proposes increase from 2020
Haines would receive four to five ferries per week between May 1 and Sept. 30 under the Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT)’s proposed summer...
Beach Road residents ask for road access, power and ability to move home
At a townhall meeting Monday, Beach Road residents asked that the Haines Borough Assembly continue working to improve access to the neighborhood,...
Assembly approves access to Beach Road
Beach Road residents were able to extract cars and possessions from homes beginning Monday at noon...
Beach Road closure extended
Beach Road east of a barricade at the far end of Portage Cove will remain closed to the public after the Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously to...
Assembly votes to advertise new manager hire
Eight months after the firing of then-manager Debra Schnabel, the Haines Borough is advertising for a new, permanent manager. On Tuesday, assembly...
Federal government extends CARES Act spending deadline
The Haines Borough Assembly voted to roll back a December spending plan for leftover CARES Act funds after the federal government approved an...
We need people we can trust on the EOC
Brenda Josephson lost her seat on the borough assembly because many of us who voted for her the first time around were appalled by her misuse of...
Collaboration leads to positive hiring process
My compliments to the Haines Borough Assembly, the Personnel Committee, and the mayor for doing a thorough job in finding the best borough manager...
2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: "I don't want to relive this year, nor sh...
Reeves: A dedicated volunteer who worked and played hard
The sudden death of retired attorney and volunteer emergency medical technician Philip Reeves...
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...
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...
Floods, slides pummel Haines, rebuilding begins
The skies cleared Wednesday after a week of rain that kept instabilities in the landscape active and...
Changing climate means more landslides in future, scientists say
The Dec. 2 slope failure at Beach Road that left two residents missing is at once tragic and...
Evacuees worry about homes and when they will be able to return safely
After the Dec. 2 Beach Road landslide, more than 50 Haines residents were displaced when...
Volunteers comb beaches for debris after ground search efforts suspended
Local volunteers are continuing to comb beaches for personal belongings and debris from the Dec. 2...
Beach Road residents request organized effort to winterize homes, mayor says landslide risk too high
Some Beach Road residents apparently made attempts to reach their homes Wednesday morning as...
AP&T installs temporary lines to restore power to Lutak homes
AP&T crews restored power at about 3 p.m. Sunday to the 46 homes toward the end of Lutak Road that h...
A 200-year weather event could happen in any given year, according to NOAA
The 200-year weather event that flooded Haines and triggered a lethal landslide on Dec. 2 has the...
I am proud of Doug Olerud
I am moved each time I hear mayor Douglas Olerud speak at the recent daily emergency briefings. I was especially moved hearing him interact with...
Duly Noted
It has been an overwhelming, exhausting and tragic week in Haines. As I am writing this column I pray that by the time we print we do not receive more...
Geologists say Beach Road slide area remains unsafe for on-foot search and rescue
On Friday, three State of Alaska geologists were finally able to get into Haines via the ferry to...
