Haines Assisted Living is negotiating to buy the Thunderbird Motel as the site of a possible veterans’ home in Haines. Purchase would be funded by a $500,000 legislative appropriation secured by state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, to HAL last year for a feasibility study of a home. The appropriation also could be used to reduce HAL […]
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Harbormaster to leave April 1; apply by March 29
Haines Borough Harbormaster Ed Barrett submitted his resignation last week. “I wish the organization and the community well,” Barrett wrote in his letter dated Feb. 29. “My life has been enriched by my experience here but I must spend more time with my family and devote more time to my health than is possible while […]
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Local GOP for Romney
Mitt Romney won the Presidential Preference Poll of local Republicans on Tuesday, when turnout was a third of the 2008 total. Residents cast 39 votes at the Captain’s Choice Motel lounge, and the tally was Romney, 15; Ron Paul, 11; Rick Santorum, 9; Newt Gingrich, 3; and undecided, 1. Romney also won the statewide poll […]
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HARK event offers to ‘chip’ dogs
“Pelly,” a husky mix that resident Marnie Hartman adopted in Whitehorse, Y.T., came with an implanted microchip that stored contact information about the pooch’s new family. The microchip was required for adoption. Hartman said this week she feels the technology is a bit “bizarre,” but understands its potential benefit. “I will say that many of […]
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Season snow record set
If you notched a tree or took a photo of the high-snow mark five years ago, you may not believe it, but Haines has set an all-time record for a winter’s snowfall. The 6.7 inches of snow that fell in town March 1 raised the season’s accumulation above the previous season high, 309 inches, set […]
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Heli-Skiing Guide Dies Avalanche
A heli-ski guide died and a client was critically injured after being caught in an avalanche Tuesday morning during a heli-ski tour near Chilkat Lake. For more on this story read this weeks Chilkat Valley News.
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Troopers investigate cop’s care of horses
The veterinarian who treated three ailing horses belonging to a Haines Borough police officer said the animals in mid-January were suffering “extreme neglect” and “barely alive.” “I worked many years on neglect cases and I’ve seen lots of starved animals and those were the worst-looking horses I’d ever seen. They were completely emaciated… The first few days […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Volunteers made Olympics a success
Community Youth Development, Well and Fit Community Council, and the Southeast Alaska State Fair would like to thank Haines Borough, Alaska Mountain Guides, Mountain Market, Tomi Scovill and friends, Ray Staska, Tim Walter, Ron Jackson, Judy Erekson, Annette Smith, and all the chili cooks for making the 2012 Winter Olympics at the fairgrounds a success. Thanks […]
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Thanks for help with Asian dinners
I would like to thank Yuko Hays for going above and beyond to help us at the American Legion Asian dinner, making the sushi, donating her time and also money. I would also like to thank Sherry Nason, Carole Ridge, Kathryn Coleman, and Nancy Coleman for their hard work. Thank you, Auxiliary ladies, for the […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Change laws to ensure horse care
Who has the responsibility for the humane care of horses? One would think that Haines Animal Rescue Kennel (HARK) would. They handle dogs and cats and do a good job for us. Don’t they do the same job for horses? No! They can legally do very little for horses and nothing past three weeks. At […]