The Haines Merchants and Klukwan Masters combined for a 4-0 record at the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau this week and have advanced to tonight’s semifinal round. The Merchants in the “B” bracket defeated Kake, 74-59, and Angoon, 83-58. Haines High School senior Tyler Swinton made his Gold Medal debut by scoring 21 points in each […]

Contemporary dance troupe Thodos Dance Chicago will perform 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 at the Chilkat Center. Haines Arts Council President Tom Heywood said the show is the first by a dance group here in about a decade. “They’re one of the most well-known Chicago dance groups,” Heywood said. “It’s contemporary dance. They’re innovative and […]

The Haines Borough is planning improvements to the Haines School vocational education building, located at the corner of Old Haines Highway and Allen Road. According to the project manual, work will include interior finish, window and Americans with Disabilities Act upgrades and installation of some new siding on the approximately 900-square-foot structure. Bids were due Monday, March […]

Applications for the Haines Borough’s new permanent, full-time executive assistant to the borough manager are due 5 p.m. Monday, April 9. The Haines Borough Assembly last week approved going forward with the hire, expected to cost an estimated $81,000 annually as a permanent position with benefits. The job, vacant since July, previously was a non-benefited, temporary position. […]

Former Chilkoot Indian Association administrator Jim Carnahan said that he has settled his lawsuit against the Haines-based tribe. Carnahan said his termination in October 2010 violated his employment contract, according to documents filed in December 2010. The tribe suspended Carnahan in July 2010. Carnahan alleged that he received no explanation for his suspension and that […]

The Chilkat Valley is featured in four short public service announcements that will appear on public television in Alaska. “Non-Point Pollution,” “Just Think,” “Marine Debris” and “The Watershed” are the work of the Takshanuk Watershed Council, videographers Mario Benassi and Mark McNamara and several Haines School students, who served as actors and producers. Several minutes […]

Leona Santiago, who grew up in Front Street’s Raven House, recounted her experience of abuse from a partner in Seattle during last week’s “Choose Respect” rally in Haines. “I was a little mouse. I had no self-esteem. My son was being abused. I knew I had to get out of that relationship, but I didn’t […]

The Haines Borough has been asked to rescind a request for a state emergency declaration related to sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road in January. Borough manager Mark Earnest told the assembly last week that damage so far hasn’t met the threshold for a state disaster declaration. A state declaration would make the municipality eligible to receive emergency mitigation funding. […]

After considerable discussion, the Haines Borough Assembly has dropped the idea of making its harbormaster a “peace officer.” That puts the local job on similar footing with the harbor chief in Skagway, but with less authority than the same job in Juneau. Skagway harbormaster Matt O’Boyle said municipal code does not designate him as a peace officer, […]