Once again the Haines High School Drama, Debate and Forensics team had a successful dinner fundraiser thanks to the generosity of our community. Food donations from Howsers IGA, the Bowmans, the Buxtons, and Alaska Meat and Grocery coupled with many hours of culinary labor donated by Leigh Horner, Suzanne Smith, and DDF fundraiser-in-charge Lisa Schwartz […]
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Miles made Haines a better place
Dennis Miles, you were the very best of us. Ever quick with a smile, a joke and always easy to laugh. Intelligent, focused and driven, but forever goofy and irreverent and never one to take yourself too seriously. Transparent as the consummate salesman that you were and yet, the true goal was always clear for […]
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Don’t encourage squirrel-killing
I was saddened to read in last week’s edition of the Chilkat Valley News the story of the squirrel killings. When we were children we were taught not to use innocent animals for target practice. Hunting for food for your family or if you needed to survive in the wilderness is one thing, but shooting little animals […]
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Duly Noted
Heather, Chip, Christian, J.J., and Stoli Lende and Sarah and Caroline Elliott returned last week from a family vacation to Sayulita, Mexico. Sarah said the trip marked the first Lende family vacation in many years, and credited J.J. with making all the plans. Eliza Lende and Sarah’s husband Brian Elliott couldn’t make the trip. Highlights […]
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Scouts resume push to finish camp
The Haines Venturer Scouts have requested additional legislative funding for a Boy Scout camp on Mud Bay Road. Greg Podsiki, director of both the camp and the Venturer Scouts, said the project would serve Boy Scouts of America. Venturer Scouts is a coed Boy Scouts program. “The development of a shower house and a series […]
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Student speakers reach final round at Ketchikan
All 10 Haines High School participants in a Drama, Debate and Forensics tournament last weekend in Ketchikan made the finals in at least one event. “It’s never happened before, as far as I know,” said Haines coach Gershon Cohen. The Haines squad included senior Sung Heywood; juniors Esther Bower, Cassie Galasso and Elena Horner; sophomores […]
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Rescue chopper lost visibility against side of Ripinsky
As they lowered rescue swimmer Craig Powers 120 feet to pluck injured hiker Keith Hutchins off a Mount Ripinsky cliffside, U.S. Coast Guard crewmen lost visibility out their port and forward windows, then, several times, lost sight of Hutchins and Powers below. “As we started the hoist, we were in a cloud,” pilot Andy Schanno said in […]
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Flashy Sitka hoops squads blast past Glacier Bears
The Haines boys’ varsity basketball team took early leads in games against Sitka last weekend, but succumbed to the more experienced Wolves both nights. Haines guards had trouble with Sitka defenders at midcourt, and the team continues to struggle with its inside game. The Glacier Bears looked like they were clicking on all cylinders Saturday, […]
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Friends bag squirrels, make hat
A distinctive, squirrel-skin hat seen around town is the result of collaboration by a group of friends and a lesson about use of wild critters. The hat is sewn with the hides of nine squirrels that Haines sixth-graders Charlie Bower, Ketch Jacobson, Mori Hays and Dawson Evenden shot with pellet guns. They skinned the squirrels […]
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Next school project: Locker room rebuild
Haines Borough and school district officials are working on a plan to rebuild the locker rooms in the school gymnasium and swimming pool. Project director Brad Maynard recently asked Jensen Yorba Lott architects to submit a proposal for remodel of the locker rooms. The borough hopes to use the firm’s plans and estimates in a school […]