Four friends headed to Nome for the finish of the 2011 Iditarod. Bruce and Gail Gilbert were joined by Lucy Harrell and Diana Pyle. The four drove to Anchorage, braving minus 38 temperatures in Tok, and flew out to Nome for six days of spectating and exploring. Housing in Nome was tight, and Bruce wasn’t […]
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Dumped moose investigated
Fish and wildlife protection officer Rick Merritt is seeking information on a cow moose head dumped over the guardrail near 1.5 Mile Mud Bay Road recently. Merritt believes the moose may have been poached, as the animal wasn’t one of three cows taken legally by residents in hunts outside Haines last year. The […]
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Swim-a-thon sets record
Members of the Haines Dolphins swim team again have set records in their annual swim-a-thon fundraiser. “We raised $20,000 with a smaller team than ever before,” said coordinator Sarah Posey, noting the Dolphins had a 100 percent participation rate in the event. The team in 2010 raised more than $19,000. In early March, 43 Dolphins […]
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School board reviews draft budget
School superintendent Michael Byer offered his first draft budget to the Haines Borough School District Tuesday. The $5.6 million spending plan Byer called “a first blush” and “moving target” includes a 3 percent increase in the borough’s contribution to the school general fund and an overall increase in spending of $230,000. It does not include […]
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Manager approves 2,200 skier days
Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest has allocated a total of 2,200 skier days to the borough’s three helicopter skiing tour operators for a season to run through May 3. His distribution was Alaska Heliskiing, 1,250; Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures (SEABA), 750; and Alaska Mountain Guides (AMG), 200. “These numbers represent the initial allocation for the 2011 season,” […]
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Planners narrow list of survey questions
Haines Borough Planning Commission members last week narrowed to 50 the number of questions adult residents will be asked during a phone survey to be conducted of 200 local households April 21-23. The borough is funding the survey to help direct its planning efforts. Residents with cell phones or unlisted numbers who would like to […]
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Highway widening document out soon
Road work through the critical habitat area of the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve will be one area of scrutiny in the environmental assessment of the Haines Highway expansion project. The environmental document for widening the road between the Haines airport and 25.3 Mile should be out this summer, said Reuben Yost, project manager at […]
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Fishing safety class offered
Commercial fishermen interested in taking a free, vessel-safety and drill conductor course in Haines May 18-19 should contact the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) at 907-747-3287 or go to http://www.amsea.org. Eight participants are required for the course to be held. The 18-hour course would be held at Haines High School and would include a […]
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Redistricting position gets 2nd look; Language about group’s map raises questions
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-1 Tuesday in support of a redistricting plan that includes Haines and Skagway in a state House district with Petersburg, Wrangell, Kake, Hoonah, Angoon, Pelican, Yakutat, Metlakatla and Prince of Wales Island. Assemblyman Steve Vick cast the dissenting vote, asking to eliminate language in the resolution that tilted the borough’s support toward a map […]
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‘Big Air’ contest set for Sunday
Wacky weather won’t ground this year’s Olen Nash Memorial Big Air Contest, set for around noon Sunday near Three Guardsmen Mountain in British Columbia. “I just got back from the Pass to go see if there’s even enough snow, because it’s been such a strange year,” coordinator Luck Dunbar said this week. “It’s just nothing […]