I wanted to thank the community for their incredible generosity. Sunday’s fundraiser to help with my medical costs was overwhelming. The love and support that I and my family felt was just a reminder of what an amazing community this is. I can’t begin to thank everyone that has been here for me in the […]
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Court handed corporations democracy
While I whole-heartedly agree with Mr. Lix’s CVN letter that American businessmen should be able to participate in the electoral process, I believe we should exercise that right in the same way as any other citizen, however not as a corporation. U.S. Supreme Court justices Roberts and Alito deserve reproach because their decision in the […]
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Haines not prepared for downturn
I just returned from Juneau! And are they busy! I observed the following under construction: new motel, boat condos, commercial buildings, expansion of cruise ship facilities, downtown parking garage and talk of reopening A.J. Mine, and other mining doing very well. Apparently they see the “handwriting on the wall” and are racing to expand and diversify […]
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Most of us use alcohol in moderation
Glass house? Regarding Dean Lari’s letter in last week’s CVN: My oh my, just who lives in a glass house and throws stones? As if you had a clue as to how much the Elks and Emblem give to this community, all the hours we put into making money to give to our community. Oh, […]
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Chopper, clinic staff came through
I would like to thank most gratefully the Haines Police, the EMT crew, SEARHC clinic staff on duty, the U.S. Coast Guard, family and neighbors who quickly and professionally answered my distress call last Sunday night when my wife suffered a stroke. You have touched my heart. Blaine Thomsen
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Don’t like bears? Move to the Lower 48
If you don’t want to live with bears, mosquitoes, hunters and trappers, winter darkness and snow, move back to your street gangs, high taxation, overcrowding and smog and Kmart. We Alaskans account our liabilities differently. Jack Hodnik
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Reward offered in shootings of bears
At one time, 60 million bison roamed the American West. By 1893 there were 300 left. Grizzlies were completely exterminated throughout most of the West by the late 1880s as well. To this day, few places on Earth contain enough wild land to support this ultimate North American predator. Thankfully, Alaska is still one such […]
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Bear shooter missed important lessons
To the person who shot the bear or bears: I hope I wasn’t your kindergarten teacher. Because if I was, I have failed. I didn’t teach you to think. You obviously can’t count. By senselessly shooting one mother bear, you have also probably killed two little cubs because they have no mother to raise and […]
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Duly Noted
An appreciation dinner for Pete Lapham will be held 3 p.m. Sunday at the Elks Lodge. Donations for the dinner will be accepted at the door. A dinner and auction fund-raiser for Merrick Bochart is slated for 5:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Haines School cafeteria. Merrick, 24, was diagnosed this fall with B-cell, […]
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Library gets top rating
The Library Journal Index of Public Library Service has awarded the Haines Borough Public Library a five-star rating for the third consecutive year. “I’d like to make a proclamation commemorating and honoring our Haines Borough Public Library, who recently received the Library Journal five-star rating award,” Mayor Jan Hill said at an October meeting of the Haines Borough Assembly. “This is quite an […]