The Haines Senior Center reminds local elders age 60 and older that they are invited to the center at 33 Mission Street for hot lunch, Monday through Thursday at noon. Meals include a main dish, salad, hot vegetable, bread, rice or noodles, milk and dessert. Anyone wanting to attend is asked to call Leslie at […]
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Local citizens group files applications for recall
By Margaret Friedenauer and Krista Kielsmeier A local citizens group on Friday filed applications for recall of Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman, Steve Vick and Joanne Waterman. The Haines Recall Committee officially filed the paperwork with the Alaska Public Offices Commission and the borough to initiate the recall effort. Resident Jim Shook is named as chairman. Assembly members Jerry Lapp and […]
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Deadline for fair exhibit entries draws close
Love the fair? Then you better be working on your entries. Exhibit entry deadlines for the Southeast Alaska State Fair are approaching. Items for most categories of entries including fiber arts, quilting, sewing, fine arts and crafts, writing, photography, woodworking and school projects can be dropped off at the fairgrounds on Friday, July 22, 10 […]
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Youth players to represent in Juneau
More than 60 children participated in the Haines Little League this season. Games ran from May to July at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds. The Braves and the Reds competed in tee-ball for ages 5 to 8 and the Red Sox and Yankees clashed in baseball for athletes up to age 12. “We just try […]
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Klukwan team sweeps up at Dustball Tourney
A men’s Klukwan team at last weekend’s Dustball International Slo-Pitch Tournament in Whitehorse lost its first two softball games and then “pretty much destroyed everyone” to win the “D” division, said infielder Brian Elliott. The team also included Michael Ganey, Tyrell Horton, Daniel Klanott, Jeffrey Klanott, Christian Lende, Jesse McGraw, Adrian Nash, Andre Stevens, Henry Stevens and […]
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CVCF offers grant writing program
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation and Haines Borough Public Library are offering a workshop on how to best seek grant funding and develop a successful grant application. The CVCF also will announce its 2011 grant cycle. The workshop is July 20 from 1 to 3 at the library.
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Constantine: Less activity at Palmer deposit this season
Constantine Metal Resources is not as active at the Palmer deposit this summer as it was in past years, but the company says the project is still its “core asset.” In an e-mail, Darwin Green, a geologist with the company, said Constantine won’t be drilling on the property as in the past four years, but […]
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Home confinement sentencing for Ecstasy bust at border
A Haines man was sentenced to 16 months of home confinement for trying to bring 802 pills of Ecstasy into the country at the U.S. border station here last November. Dennim Craig Hagwood, 19, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Juneau. Judge Timothy Burgess also sentenced Hagwood to 750 hours of community service […]
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Chum on the run; season looks bountiful for gillnetters
The chum salmon are creating a plentiful harvest for gillnetters, who have turned out en masse to bring in the bounty. “The early part of the season is going very well and as anticipated for the chum return,” said Randy Bachman with Alaska Department of Fish and Game commercial fishery division in Haines. Bachman said […]
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Lemcke steps in as interim public facilities director
Brian Lemcke, the Haines Borough’s new interim director of public facilities, said his first few days on the job have shown “there’s actually a lot going on in this little town.” “I’ve been looking at everything from changing door locks to making sure fire hydrants are hooked up right,” said Lemcke, a former city councilor […]