Thank you to all the amazing volunteers and the community for our very successful electronic recycling event. We collected 15,200 pounds of electronics this year. Over the past five years Haines Friends of Recycling has sent over 72,000 pounds of electronics to Total Reclaim for environmentally responsible recycling. We now have a loading ramp and […]
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Lani Hotch a ‘treasure’ to Klukwan
In one month I’ve seen and now read about Lani Hotch being honored. How proud she must be and the people of Klukwan, because I am proud of her. Myself, I’ve seen a lot happen in Klukwan. They’re saving their people and especially the language and culture. That’s working together for you. I wish our people of […]
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Thanks for volunteering opportunity
Many thanks to the Haines Volunteer Fire Department, HARK, The Haines Borough Library, and the Sheldon Museum for helping me, along with Nicole Studley, Brooke Messerschmidt, and Natalie Benassi, experience the delights of volunteering during our summer school program. Thanks, too, to Mario Benassi and Stephen Kroschel for an extra-special introduction to the wild residents at Kroschel […]
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Division has always existed in Haines
Judy Erekson said: “For me, Karen Hess and her committee are showing their true colors by constantly litigating any time she doesn’t get her way, and verbally attacking anyone who doesn’t agree with her.” It’s not about “litigating to get her way.” It’s about demanding that the Haines assembly simply abide by state law, that’s […]
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Youth theater puts on sweet performance
The Summer Youth Theater Conservatory’s production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was a smashing success. Imagine putting together a major production with an amazing and complicated set and props in a mere three weeks! Director Elise Lammers and her assistants, Rene Martin and Tia Heywood, are to be congratulated for putting it all together, […]
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Duly Noted
Steve and Jamie Knudsen welcomed daughter Madyson Paige on July 8. She was born in Juneau with grandmother Shari Wallers, aunt Jeanette Baker, both of Haines, and Aunt Sue Carson of Juneau present. The family returned to Haines on July 10 and was welcomed home by siblings Amber, age 7, and Hayden, 4. “Everybody […]
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Unattended campfires result in department response
The Haines Volunteer Fire Department in the past week responded to two calls for fires in the woods near Fourth Avenue. “If you’re having a campfire, you need to have a good base where it’s not into the organic layer, because even though you put the fire out, it spreads underneath the ground,” said fireman […]
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Sealaska creates Tlingit language tools
Sealaska Heritage Institute has released flash cards, an audio CD and an online interactive tool designed to teach the Tlingit alphabet to children. Students using the online tool will be able to scroll through the images, see the Tlingit text and hear how the characters and words sound in Tlingit. The tool is available at http://www.sealaskaheritage.org in […]
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Old mining drill to get spit and polish
The Haines Borough Assembly at its July 12 meeting approved a resolution to pay Dave Pahl of the Haines Hammer Museum $18,800 to restore the Keystone Driller that for years sat at Lookout Point as a tourist attraction. Pahl said this week he is still negotiating the contract with the borough, but hopes to begin work on […]
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Mayor wants youth voice on rec committee
Mayor Jan Hill has designated one seat on the Haines Borough’s revived, seven-member Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee to be filled by a representative between the ages of 16 and 21. “I’d like to just encourage some youth involvement in this as one of the user groups that we would be accommodating,” Hill said at the July […]