Nov. 24, 1969
Casting tryouts for a winter play “Exit the Body” will begin Wednesday evening at 8 in the lobby of the Chilkat Center.
The hilarious mystery-farce by Fred Carmichael has a cast of five men and five women, and concerns itself with a search for stolen jewels left in a New England house, and bodies which appear and disappear in a closet.
The production date has not yet been set, but the play will probably be presented some time after Christmas. Ray Menaker will direct.
All people interested in the play are urged to come to the tryouts, even those who do not want acting roles, but who will help with staging, set-building, lighting, costuming, props, publicity, etc. No experience needed for any work.
Nov. 24, 1994
Tightening education budgets aren’t narrowing options for students at Haines High School, where satellite technology is used to increase class offerings.
No longer is foreign language a one-class department, for example. Although French is still the only foreign language taught by Haines High faculty, local students are learning Japanese and Spanish – through a national television network called IDEANet.
With teachers based in Tacoma, Wash., and students enrolled across the country, IDEANet beams courses daily via satellite to classrooms like Haines’. Students here tune in at the television with a local teacher on hand to supervise, not teach, the class.
Nov. 19, 2009
Chilkoot bears also appear to be Ferebee bears, town bears and Mount Ripinsky bears.
These were some of the areas where two brown bears, collared along the Chilkoot River, wandered in the last year.
A presentation of the data was held at the Haines Library Tuesday night in front of a standing-room only crowd of more than 50 residents. Sponsored by the Takshanuk Watershed Council, the talk featured state biologist Ryan Scott.
“These two bears did things I did not expect,” Scott said.
The state collared two sows in the fall of 2008, shooting them with darts and placing a GPS collar on the bruins: #233, about three years old and 200 pounds and #235, estimated at 10 years old and 450 pounds.
Data from the young bear were presented first and when the map of the bear’s roamings was presented, the audience gasped.
The bruin had a home range of 76 square miles and in one year had visited Taiya Inlet, Taiyasanki Harbor, upper Ferebee Valley, Mount Ripinsky, Peak 3,920, downtown, the Small Boat Harbor, Battery Point, Chilkoot River and the far end of Chilkoot Lake.
Scott said the wandering was indicative of the bear’s youth. “I’m not convinced that this bear is going to stay here (Chilkoot River).”
It denned at 2,800 feet on Halutu Ridge, which separates the Ferebee from Taiya Inlet.