Tyler Wyatt will make his first trip to Alaska later this month to start his job as the new head coach of the Haines Dolphins swim team. “I’m originally from Colorado, so I know, pretty much, what I’m going to be facing,” Wyatt said. “It’s going to take a period of adjustment, but I’m sure […]

The community birthday calendar – a Haines School project for decades – needs a rescue. For years, the calendar was compiled by the junior class at Haines High School, as a fund-raiser for the prom, but students no longer want to do the work and class advisor Lilly Boron said the calendar has become something […]

Gershon Cohen, coach of the Haines High School Drama, Debate and Forensics team, flew to the Marshall Islands last month to help develop debate programs in that South Pacific country. “This is halfway between Hawaii and Australia,” Cohen said. “It’s one of the smallest specks of land in the world, really.” His Haines team last […]

An exhibit of photographs by Ron Horn will open at the Sheldon Museum with a public reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12. Horn’s “Natural Art: Digital Photographs of Haines Wildlife and Landscapes” display will run through Sept. 23 and is the third and final Six-Week Spotlight exhibit of the season. The Six-Week Spotlight is an […]

Jim Shook, chairman of the Haines Recall Committee, said petitions for the potential recall of Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman will be turned in by Friday, Aug. 12, the deadline to be on the ballot for the October municipal election. Each petition needs at least 275 certified signatures. “We want to get as many as possible, because […]