The Haines Glacier Bear cross-country teams will run their first meet of the season Saturday in Petersburg. With 10 runners led by state qualifier Quinn Asquith Heinz, the boys should be competitive against the region’s top squads, but the girls may face a harder time, due to attrition from competing sports and injuries. The girls’ […]
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Students make big harvest
Haines seventh-graders completed a year-long lesson in the life-cycle of food Monday, when they harvested vegetables from garden plots they fertilized last year with compost of their own lunches. The project started a year ago, when the same students were charged with making compost of table scraps from the school cafeteria. The work got smelly […]
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New parks worker, new look for town’s public spaces
LaVerne Bryant has an idea for the rusty flagpole at Tlingit Park: Paint it and rig it with a flag. “We do all our Fourth of July stuff down here. It sure would be nice to have a flag over the proceedings,” said Bryant, the Haines Borough’s parks laborer. Bryant last week reclaimed a sidewalk […]
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Wounded bear may have survived Large boar shot after stealing Small Tracts chickens
A brown bear shot last week near the start of Small Tracts Road may still be alive, according to state wildlife trooper Ricky Merritt. “People in that neighborhood should be watchful,” Merritt said this week. Merritt was notified Aug. 28 that a bear had been shot two days earlier. On questioning, a resident there confirmed […]
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Special assembly meeting Thursday
A special meeting of the Haines Borough Assembly will be held starting 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9 in the assembly chambers. The purpose of the meeting will be to make a bid award for demolition of the old school buildings, to approve an addendum to the Lily Lake water line project for agency-funded improvements, and to […]
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Leaving for a field of dreams
In 2005, Marilyn Gunn recruited local veterans to sit atop bales of recycled aluminum and plastic for the local recycling group’s Fourth of July parade float. “It was a great tie-in. It was very appealing. It was one of those things that factored into our decision to move here,” said Melissa Aronson, who had worked […]
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Candidate’s residency questioned
Haines Borough Assembly candidate Greg Goodman this week said he believed he meets residency requirements to run for office. Goodman, a former Haines Police chief who worked as a flight engineer in Anchorage between June and April 2008, responded to questions raised by residents, including Republican Party activist Bill Kurz. “My primary residence is here in Haines. It […]
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Buyer meets price for Picture Point Borough may still have options
A five-acre parcel of prime Portage Cove beachfront, including the pull-outs known as “Picture Point,” is slated to be sold by October, but the Haines Borough may still have a chance of acquiring some of the property. Fairbanks attorney Mary Nordale, who oversees the Narada Trust, this week said she’s accepted an offer from a buyer and […]
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Questions come with food to go
Food businesses in trailers are serving up a host of issues for the Haines Borough as they morph into permanent structures after losing their wheels. Under borough code, “temporary use” is defined as a building or structure that is capable of being immediately moved, or a use which is for a limited time up to six months. […]
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Here’s to Mr. Brouillette
I just heard about the passing of Charlie Brouillette. I send my condolences and prayers to his family during this time. As a young adult Charlie shaped, like many of us from Haines, I remember him as my fifth-grade teacher and friend. He was a great person and teacher. I remember telling my wife and […]