Residents reflect on the first year of the pandemic

For some in Haines, the arrival of COVID-19 one year ago felt like a seismic shift.

“I will never forget it. My daughter was in labor in Juneau. When she went into the hospital, everything was normal, and when she left, we were in lockdown. I cut Emilia Ann’s umbilical cord on March 16. On March 17, I was not allowed back in the hospital to see her,” Heather Lende said. She flew back to…