The sixth annual Chilkat River Walk, Run and Ride from Klukwan to Haines is set for Saturday, May 12. The event raises money for the Chilkat Valley Cancer Travel Fund and raises awareness about breast cancer and breast health. This is the second year participants can run or bicycle the course, in addition to walking.   The 23-mile event […]

The Haines Borough Assembly last week introduced an ordinance that would require a simple majority vote of remaining members to fill assembly vacancies, a move aimed at easing gridlock. The borough’s government affairs and services committee of assembly members Daymond Hoffman, Debra Schnabel and committee chair Steve Vick recommended the change. Last June, the assembly failed to appoint a replacement for a […]

This year’s Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 12, at the Haines School has a theme of food security. “People are becoming increasingly concerned about the cost of shipping food, the quality of food that you can get when it’s shipped, and how and why it’s important to grow and/or […]

Lemonade stands are set to spring up around town on Sunday, May 6, as part of Lemonade Day Alaska, an event that educates students about the challenges of entrepreneurship. The national Lemonade Day started in Texas in 2007 and is “a free, fun, experiential learning program that teaches youth how to start, own and operate […]

Following a recent public meeting in Haines, state parks officials are gathering public comments on plans for a bear-viewing platform along the Chilkoot River, as well as on potential short-term and long-term management and infrastructure changes in the busy river corridor. Posters listing potential changes, as well as maps and examples of platform design are […]

By Tom Morphet Though a bit shrunken in numbers from previous years, the Haines High School track and field teams ran fast enough, jumped high enough and threw far enough to beat several larger schools at the Capital Invitational meet last weekend in Juneau. The teams compete at the Haines Invitational beginning 3 p.m. Friday […]

Haines Borough Harbormaster Phil Benner and his staff are hosting a customer appreciation barbecue on Wednesday, May 16, and will share plans for facilities. “We’ll do it every year,” Benner said. “You get to interact differently with people when you’re eating with them, and also to show the projects that we got funded, as long […]

Tracy Mikowski holds a degree in wildlife biology and knows animals found in the wild should be left there. But when Mikowski came across a newborn seal in beach grass along Chilkat Inlet 6 a.m. Wednesday, she scooped it up. “I struggled with it. I debated it. But I knew it wasn’t going to survive […]

The annual Fourth of July fireworks display is back on schedule. The Haines Borough recently agreed to pay for insurance coverage for the event, following a decision by the Haines Chamber of Commerce to no longer sponsor it. A $5 million policy purchased through Fire Art by Griz, the fireworks supplier for pyrotechnician Phil Wilde, costs $1,500, […]