Big Al’s Salmon Shack opened a month ago on Old Haines Highway across from the convenience store. The trailer-side stand offers deep-fried halibut, salmon and French fries. All the fish is locally caught and processed, said co-owner Harry Rietze. Rietze said he got the idea for deep-frying salmon from dad Hugh Rietze, who battered up […]
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Pizzeria opens at Dalton City
Steve Anderson said dry willow works best in the wood-fired oven of the pizzeria he opened recently in Dalton City. Anderson and K.C. O’Connor run “The Klondike,” a dinner restaurant in the saloon at the state fairgrounds. It’s open 5 to 9 p.m. every day and for lunch Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays and on farmers’ market […]
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Board OKs $280K to cover play area
The Haines Borough school board voted unanimously last week to allocate up to $280,000 to Dawson Construction for a roof to go over the paved basketball court and play area on the Haines School’s west side. The work will be done as a change order proposal to the school renovation project and funds will come from about $400,000 […]
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Menke publishes 3rd book of photographs
Haines photographer Kathleen Menke has published her third book of photographs, “Spirits of the North.” The 80-page, self-published softcover represents three years of photos taken on trips through the North including ones from the Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Denali National Park and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Other locations include Copper River Delta, northern British Columbia […]
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Fair to feature new talent show
Ever dreamed of being discovered at a talent show like “American Idol” or “So You Think You can Dance”? You’ve got your chance at the 2010 Southeast Alaska State Fair. The Southeast Alaska State Fair will host a regional talent show, “Southeast’s Got Talent” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 29, the first day of […]
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Do-again set for Lutak Road section
The state will resurface a 100-foot section of new roadway near 1.2 Mile Lutak Road after cracks opened in the asphalt there last winter. Located on the northbound shoulder of the road, the cracks run parallel to the road for about 30 feet and are up to an inch wide. Subsurface forces apparently pulled the road away […]
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Chip-coat crew works state roads Resurfacing work at town’s edge to go through July
Seventeen miles of outlying roads will get a coat of chip-seal surface in the next six weeks, as the regional maintenance crew from the state Department of Transportation brings its crew to Haines for the first time in five years. The chip-coat crew rotates around Southeast and worked at Prince of Wales Island and Ketchikan […]
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Metal event nets 6 tons
Haines Friends of Recycling hauled about six tons of scrap metal during last weekend’s two-day collection event. “It went very well. People brought dead washers and dryers, bedsprings, dead engines, a lot of siding, random pipes and rusty barrels. You name it, they brought it,” said group board member Frank Holmes. The junk metal went […]
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Local mountaineer learns of distinction 52 years later
By 1958, Bruce Gilbert had climbed some of the most prominent peaks in Europe and the Pacific Northwest. But it was only last month that Gilbert learned that one of his climbs more than 50 years ago was a first ascent. Gilbert, 79, was in the audience of about 80 residents at a Sheldon Museum […]
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Bike relay organizers expect record turnout
Riders on leg six of Saturday’s 18th annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay might want to pack long johns. Swaths of snow along that stretch of the Haines Highway this week were down to the edge of the road, said Judy Ewald, board member and volunteer. “The summit crew better dress warm. It’s going to […]