President after president, administrator after administrator, council after council and last, but not least, nepotism after nepotism. This is very much so. Seems like they forgot the rest of us, as usual. This is what I see and hear every day: 1) Non-natives in our IRA and teaching our children. 2) By-laws neglected. No meetings […]

The recent “School of Ghoul” Halloween party at Mosquito Lake School was a great success! A big thank you goes out to a group of volunteers that made this happen: Shawna Kinison, Janet Hayes, Joe and Edie Ordonez, Yvette Graham, Jae McDermaid, Natalie Benassi, Susan Haddock, Kris Nagy, Lee Nash, Denise Richards, Fred Graham, Josie Allen, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]