Is Alaska familiar with St. Patrick’s Day? That one night of the year American-lrish people live for—yet can never remember? (The tragedy of my...

Haines Friends of Recycling has added markers, magnifying glasses and magnets by the bins at the recycle center to make your sorting easier.  Your...

Russia used to own Alaska. We have resources, timber, oil, minerals, fish. We aren’t that far from Russia. What’s to say Putin might not want to...

This is the type of response I was hoping for. Any discussion at this level is escaping from making decisions that are less than critical thinking....

We had another excellent Winter Games on Saturday, thanks in large part to all of the hardworking people who put in so much time and effort to bring...

Haines Huts And Trails extends smiling high-fives to everyone who helped make the 2022 Kat to Koot Alpine Adventure Race a success.  More than 30 sno...

Thanks to all the XC skiers and snowshoers who came out on Winterfest Sunday for the Miles Klehini Classic at 25M, despite the wet and soggy...

The month-long 2022 Tournament of the Readers finished this week with a nail-biting match between two fifth-grade teams. Congratulations to the...

It was fitting to see two articles side by side in the recent Feb. 10 Chilkat Valley News regarding the approval of the Lutak cell tower lease and...

Our board is appreciative of the respectful communication we received from HBSD families and the Haines community regarding COVID-19 mitigations. We...

Have you heard of the Ides of March? The day Julius Caesar died? (Which Shakespeare tried to warn him about?) Never mind the details about Caesar...

Little “ Charlie Duncan” had no hair. He didn’t even have a care. No mama’s milk did he drink. It looked like he was sound asleep. Mama...

It takes fortitude to be new in a community and expect that community will change everything to fit your personal desires. George...

If we lived in the Atacama Desert, I’d be a pro miner. But, we don’t. We live in a coastal wetland. Water vectors are everywhere. Disturb the...

We’ve been hearing for some time about Haines’ problems with losing population, and that one way to address this is to encourage subdivisions via...

Since the 1960’s Haines has not allowed mobile homes or RVs as residences outside of permitted mobile home or RV parks.  Why?  Because they do...

I am sympathetic to Mr. Woodard’s view and while he undoubtedly makes great points (in the Feb. 3rd issue of the CVN) about the power and...

I have eight grandchildren in the public school system across the country. They have all experienced the loss of what a “normal” school year once...

Picketing in front of our school all week? Really? I am disgusted and feel only embarrassment for you people. Shame on you for attempting to make our...

I would like to thank Zephyr Sincerny who shoveled the snow off the roof on Jan. 15. I had four feet of snow on the roof annex and thought the roof...

Thank you so much to Art Woodard and his paraphrase from “The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies” by Richard Paul and Linda Elder, CVN, February 3,...

Non-Indigenous Alaskan culture is rooted in the individual’s right to do as she pleases - at least we pretend it is, until she wants to live a...

There’s lots of dogs in Haines. Not all of them are well behaved. Here are some tips for proper canine stewardship. • Before you make that giant...

In my last letter, I spilled the beans about the toehold we artists enjoy in the new historical Renaissance (200-300 year duration is my guess, solar...

When it came to my attention that another communications tower had been proposed for our town it raised some concern. December 21st of 2021, the...