Haines resident Jim Studley was out Sunday with his tool kit, stapling up a line of twinkly white lights, placing the final touches on a local Christmas holiday tradition.

It’s the manger scene outside Sacred Heart Catholic Church at the corner of Third Avenue and Dalton Street. There’s Joseph and Mary, the three kings, a camel, donkey, lamb and cow – with a trumpeting angel gracing the entire scene from above.

At one point, Studley…