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Budget: $12.2 million, reduction in tax rates
On a 4-2 vote, the Haines Borough Assembly approved its $12.2 million spending plan for the coming year Tuesday, including a reduction in the...
Truck breakdown foils would-be thief
A would-be thief who packed his truck full of $2,000 worth of stolen lumber at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds tried to pass himself off as...
21st KCIBR Saturday
What started out as an international celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Haines Highway has grown into one of the premiere bicycling events...
Gillnetters expecting leaner season
Haines commercial fishermen say they’re expecting a dip in chum salmon prices this year and also say they’ll be watching for interception of...
Fisherman's effort aims to help hospital
A commercial gillnet fisherman has launched an effort aimed at raising money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital, and he’s hoping to get...
Statement alleging vandalism untrue
In the article in the CVN of June 6, regarding trespassing at Viking Cove, Karen Garcia reports that Sally Andersen said: “Einspruch is the only...
Links owners make benefit a success
For yet another year, thank you, Kathy and Stan Jones, for offering your beautiful Valley of the Eagles Golf Links for the Hospice of Haines benefit...
Friends help locate stolen kayak
Thank you to everyone who helped me look for, and find, my kayak. I’m impressed by the number of you who helped me as I tried to track it down....
Editorial
A friend recently commented that there was “too much government news” in our newspaper. Another reader told me he thinks the newspaper does a...
Holmes dies at 95
A celebration of the life of Florence Holmes was held May 28 in Fairbanks. She died May 19 at age 95. The second of five children born to P.B....