Eight members of the Haines Dolphins swim team competed at the Dec. 5-7 Southeast Champs meet in Juneau, an elite event that required athletes to post qualifying times to enter. The meet also drew entrants from Craig, Juneau, Ketchikan, Petersburg and Sitka. “It’s a relatively difficult meet to qualify for,” said coach Robert Butker. Dolphin […]
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Cozzi, Stuart get pay increases
The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday approved new contracts for clerk Julie Cozzi and chief fiscal officer Jila Stuart, increasing wages for both borough officers. Cozzi’s annual salary increased from $62,940 to $67,500. Stuart is paid hourly for 36 to 40 hours of work per week. Her hourly wage increased from $28.46 to $30. Manager David Sosa and […]
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Bears hoop season takes flight
The holidays won’t be much of a break for Haines High School’s basketball teams, with out-of-town tournaments leading into the Jan. 2 opening of conference play. The Haines girls this week were on their way to Petersburg to compete in the Little Norway Tournament. The Glacier Bears’ schedule included the host Vikings on Thursday (Dec. […]
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Candidate offered development job
After two rounds of interviews, Haines Borough manager David Sosa last week offered the community and economic development director job to Bill Mandeville of Tumwater, Wash. Mandeville has worked for Washington’s Department of Commerce since 2006. He manages a $6.5 million revolving loan fund designed to redevelop sites with environmental hazards into productive commercial and industrial […]
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Sebens to lead play; auditions in January
Auditions will be held in January for “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a play by Lynn Canal Community Players that director Tod Sebens hopes to stage by late February. Set in County Donegal, Ireland in 1936, the play is a drama of a large, Catholic family coming to grips with its poverty and insecurity in a changing world at […]
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Mackowiak, Olerud top Jobbins in cookie showdown
That’s the way the Christmas cookie crumbles. Tammy Jobbins, reigning champion of the Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Cookie and Candy Contest, was unseated last week by Martha Mackowiak in the adult cookie category and by Charlotte Olerud in the adult candy category. Jobbins won first place in the adult candy competition last year, and swept […]
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Yeti’s makes specialties of bread, rolls
Yeti’s Yummies officially opened last week, just in time to order a batch of fresh-baked banana muffins or loaf of “Christmas in Vermont” bread for your holiday gathering. Yvette Graham launched the cottage food business Dec. 8. A lifelong baker, Graham makes everything from orange-glazed pumpkin gingerbread to pumpernickel country loaves to blueberry pies. “When […]
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Sarah J’s moving into downtown
After four seasons in her “pigeon coop” location on Portage Street, Sarah Jaymot is moving her cafe and coffee shop downtown. Jaymot recently purchased the Hungry Moose on Second Avenue and plans to operate Sarah J’s out of the trailer until she can build a new structure on the plot. She is also in […]
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Shop offers trapping gear
Local trappers need no longer buy their gear online and wait weeks for supplies to arrive. Resident Ryan Cook this year launched Cookie’s General Store to help out his fellow trappers by selling traps, snares, scents and stretcher boards here. Cook started the business after becoming frustrated with the time it took equipment he bought […]
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Consignment shop is now ‘Treasures’
A little more than a year after Helen Mooney assumed ownership of the consignment store at 1 Mile Haines Highway, the business is again changing hands. As of Nov. 1, What’s In Store became Talia’s Treasures, owned by Tammy Hauser. Hauser, who named the store after her daughter, said the opportunity fell into her lap. […]