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This week in history

July 1971 Non-reserved vehicles have 3-day wait now for ferry Southbound vehicle traffic on the Alaska Ferry System has built up to a point where there is now a three-day wait for passage for vehicles without reservations, local ferry officials said Tuesday. They emphasized, however, that those vehicles with reservations will leave on the day […]

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Skits laugh at history

“Skits-O-Frenia – The Historical Hysterical Histrionics Skit Festival” will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Chilkat Center. The Foundation for the Chilkat Center for the Arts and the Lynn Canal Community Players are putting on the festival to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chilkat Center. According to a press release, the […]

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HARK, Sosa hit standoff in talks

Contract negotiations between the Haines Borough and Haines Animal Rescue Kennel ground to a halt last week, with the two sides blaming each other for the hold-up. Borough manager David Sosa sent out a press release late Friday afternoon saying the two organizations were unable to reach an agreement and that “we are no longer using HARK […]

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Pet Duly Noted

Editor’s note: Reporter Eileen McIver has covered Duly Noted for the CVN this summer, but her real interest is animals. McIver is returning to Healy, Alaska after this week. She wrote a final column on her favorite subject. By Eileen McIver Six kittens were born July 13 to mother Shadow. The kittens each weighed three ounces, […]

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HARK board removes its executive director

The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel is back to looking for a new executive director and animal control officer. The nonprofit recently fired executive director Nicole Swensgard, said HARK board president Tara Bicknell. Animal control officer Madeline Nicholl will be leaving HARK in about a month to pursue other career opportunities, Bicknell said. Bicknell said Swensgard […]

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Talk on crowd-sourcing for non-profits

The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation thanks Steve Vick for his excellent presentation on crowd-sourcing for nonprofits. Thanks also to the Haines Borough Public Library for hosting the program, particularly Jessie Morgan for handling publicity and for making Steve’s presentation available to other communities through the OWL program (Online With Libraries). For those who missed Steve’s talk, it soon will […]

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Wild Things

We have oodles of signs of spring in Haines. The daylight returns, the temperatures warm and, boom, the birds arrive, the bears come out, and the plants emerge and bloom.  Mark Battaion saw a robin March 23. Since 1999, the earliest the first robins have arrived is March 1 and the latest is April 30. Sometimes a few […]

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Thanks for help with pet fashion show

The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel would like to thank all the community members, local dogs and volunteers who participated in our recent pet fashion show. We especially want to thank Mayor Stephanie Scott, Greg Podsiki and Kay Clements for judging the fashion show. As well as Joanne Waterman for being the auctioneer and Marty Fowler, who was master of […]