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Feb. 24, 1969
Television in the Haines area has become a matter of controversy.
A group of some fifty subscribers have petitioned the television company to make changes in its service. A copy of the petition was sent to this paper, and is printed in full on this and the next page. If, as requested in the petition, the company wishes to reply by using this newspaper, space will be provided for response.
2019 Editor's note: The petiton's complaints included, "The 'down time' time usually equals and sometimes exceeds the viewing time, quoted prices and acutal billing on installation and rehookup differ, quality of the programs are not equal to the rest of Southeast Alaska, many very old movies are run numerous times, such as the 'Broken Lance.'" The memo also complained of eye witness accounts of "heavy drinking parties going on in the T.V. room within the last week."
March 3, 1994
The 26-foot wooden sailboat Manu Kai was raised Tuesday afternoon after swamping at the Small Boat Harbor early last Friday.
After rigging a strap cradle beneath the 66-year-old craft, a crew of eight fishermen and friends used a hand winch and one from the fishing boat Rustler to carefully lift the gunwales inches above the water line.
Using three pumps, they emptied the former racing sloop of saltwater, exposing the deck littered with mussels and silt and the small cabin's soaked contents. The boat's nine horsepower diesel engine was restarted after five days underwater.
Lon Garrison who was watching the vessel for owner Betsy Wilson, said a back siphon in a replacement bilge pump hose caused it to take on water. Wilson, a local fisheries technician, was on vacation and returned to town Wednesday.
Feb. 26, 2009
Despite use of energy-saving lighting and a design aimed at efficiency, the new $17 million school complex is using 10 to 25 percent more electricity every month than the previous separate school buildings, according to a report released last week.
Stephanie Scott, staff to the borough's Energy and Sustainability Commission, delivered the results of her energy audit on the combined school building to the school board Feb. 10 and to the Haines Borough Assembly Feb. 17. Scott described energy consumption at the new school building and at Mosquito Lake School as "stunning." The new school building alone uses around half of all electricity and heating oil consumed by borough facilities, and more energy than the Chilkat Center, Sheldon Museum, library, radio tower, weather station, and administrative and public safety buildings combined.
