I would like to thank everyone who turned out to help with the Haines Animal Rescue Kennel membership event. Thanks to Mario Benassi for the great film reminding us all of what a great place we live in and how lucky we are to see the grandeur of Haines. Thanks to the kitchen help: Bill […]
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Scavenger team appreciates sponsors
Thank you, Miles Furniture and Alaska Power and Telephone, for sponsoring Sonny Myers, Scott Bradford, Russ Bell and Brian Wright in the Venturer Scouts Scavenger Hunt last Saturday. Julie Myers
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Disappointed in McEwen sentence
I was extremely interested about the outcome of the McEwen case, but disappointed that the 60-day jail sentence was suspended. I just got a sticker from the Animal Legal Defense Fund which states, “Abuse an animal… go to jail.” Obviously, this legislation hasn’t been enacted in Alaska yet, but hopefully it will be at some […]
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Police Blotter
Monday, May 23 A caller requested a welfare check on an individual they had not heard from in a week. An officer responded and found no one at home. A dispatcher called the ferry terminal and was told the individual left on a ferry a couple days earlier and would not be home until early […]
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Police Blotter
Sunday, April 8 A caller reported unsupervised, small children at the skate park. A parent picked up the children, and police referred the incident to the Office of Children’s Services. Firefighters responded to a campfire on Lutak Road reportedly out of control. Saturday, April 7 A caller reported a rock broke a window at a Main Street […]
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Duly Noted
Friends at the Pioneers of Alaska’s Sunday meeting sang “Happy Birthday” to Layton A. Bennett in anticipation of his 93rd birthday Thursday, April 12. Wife Lou is organizing a family party with sons Lynn Bennett of Juneau and Eric Bennett of Bellevue, Wash. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the […]
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Spring Harvest
A minus four-foot tide Sunday morning sent residents to local beaches for subsistence harvests. Above, Cindy Buxton cuts seaweed. Residents also dug dungeness crabs on exposed tidal flats.
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Assembly considers appointments
Members of the Haines Borough’s government affairs and services committee last week debated the role of special elections in filling assembly vacancies. The April 3 meeting followed the assembly’s failure last June to appoint a replacement for a seat vacated by Greg Goodman. The decision was left to voters in the October municipal election. The […]
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Library Week
Eric Holle entertains library patrons at the Haines Public Library during Music In the Stacks celebrating Library Week.
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Planners to revisit primary school lot
Four years after the Haines Borough Assembly agreed to keep the Haines primary school building to see how land there would fit into a downtown plan, the borough’s planning commission is being asked whether the property should be sold. The borough demolished the building on the property in October 2010. The planning commission will hold a hearing […]