About 20 people attended a May 18 meeting to support Haines Borough acquisition of Picture Point, and several called for the borough assembly to speed up its timeline for making a decision on the purchase. “I read the crowd as very aggressive, wanting the borough to purchase the property with its own money or to develop other […]
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Brewfest starts with beer banquet Friday
The 19th annual Great Alaska Craft Beer and Homebrew Festival will be held Friday and Saturday at the Southeast state fairgrounds. The main event, a beer-tasting from 1-5 p.m. Saturday in Dalton City, will feature 13 breweries from Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest and dozens of different styles of beer. Some 90 varieties were […]
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Downtown street paving
First Avenue, Willard and Mission streets are on track for paving this year, but other borough roads downtown will likely wait until next year, public facilities director Brad Maynard said this week. Money recently appropriated by the Alaska Legislature – if approved by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell – will pay this year for replacing water […]
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Troopers, police wrangle stubborn cow moose
State troopers and Haines Police used yelling, clapping, sirens, flashing lights, trucks and ultimately a front-end loader to shoo away a cow moose with two newborn calves that bedded down Thursday night next to the high school. “She would look up at us, put her ears down, and then not move at all. She wouldn’t have anything […]
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Graduates urged to dream, plan, have courage
“It went better than I thought,” said Aihan Goldberg, commenting on his electric guitar solo that drew raucous applause during Monday’s graduation ceremony at Haines High School. Goldberg’s original composition was the finale of student musical acts that included a student rock band’s version of a Red Hot Chili Peppers song and a choral rendition […]
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Bicycle-motorist safety discussed
Do bicyclists take up more than their share of local roads? That was a discussion at a recent Haines Borough Planning Commission meeting, where commissioner and former DOT maintenance crew chief Pete Lapham voiced concerns about adult bike riders straddling the fog line. Lapham asked borough manager Mark Earnest, leader of Haines Bikes, to tell riders they’re not […]
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Foundation seeking $15K by Sept. 15
The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation will be seeking $15,000 in local donations by Sept. 15 to meet a matching amount under a challenge grant from the Rasmuson Foundation. The local group must meet the Sept. 15 date in order to qualify for an additional $2,500 to give to local nonprofits during its annual grant cycle […]
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Vet takes apart orca at Lutak
A veterinarian with the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday cut into a juvenile killer whale that washed up last weekend on a Lutak Inlet beach, seeking clues about why it died. NOAA veterinarian Dr. Rachel Dziuba took samples from the orca’s brain, tongue, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and lymph nodes, as well as from […]
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ATVs on local roads? Borough gets request
The Haines Borough Assembly next month is expected to introduce an ordinance that would permit all-terrain vehicles to operate on borough streets and roads. The topic was a discussion item at Tuesday’s assembly meeting, at the request of members Jerry Lapp and Scott Rossman. “I think a lot of people could save money on gas with this, and I […]
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DUI charged in cliffside wreck
Acting on the results of a blood-alcohol test obtained through a search warrant, Alaska State Troopers have charged a Haines woman with driving under the influence during a cliffside crash at 9 Mile Haines Highway April 26. Trooper Josh Bentz said an earlier finding Hicks wasn’t intoxicated at the time of the crash was based […]