A photo of Andrew Williamson in his junior high basketball uniform and one on a Little League baseball card were tacked to a wooden cross erected at Port Chilkoot beach this week. Williamson, 14, died in a drowning accident at the beach Saturday. Friends and family members said he was a good-natured and quiet youth […]
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Hikes offered
The borough’s Community Youth Development program and Alaska Mountain Guides are combining efforts to offer a summer hiking program. Hikes will include ones to Battery Point Friday, to Moose Meadows June 19, up Mount Riley on July 10 and up Mount Ripinsky on July 24. The hikes are free and open to students between ages 10 and 16. Space […]
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Girls’ running program caps 2nd season
The Girls on the Run program culminated its second season recently with a 5K run from the airport to Dalton City. Fourteen girls and eight adults made the run that finished with a pizza party. Ten-year-old Brittney Bradford prodded on her cousin Makayla Crager, 9. “Toward the end, it was tiring and I wasn’t sure […]
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Two hiking parties helped off Riley
Deep snow and confusing flagging tape are making hiking on Mount Riley tricky, say members of the local search and rescue team. Two hiking parties called for help after getting lost on the mountain last week. Jonathan Truong, 23, a passenger off the cruise ship Ryndam, used a cell phone to call for rescue on the north […]
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Blaze clues won’t come from trail registers anymore
Clues on the origin of the wildfire in Chilkat State Park near Seduction Point won’t be coming from the Seduction Point Trail register. The register – a log used to record use of the trail – was removed along with ones at Battery Point Trail, 7 Mile Trail and other locations – about four years […]
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Campfire touches off blaze near Seduction Point
A lift from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and diminishing winds helped firefighters tame a wildfire near Dalasuga Island, about a half-mile north of Seduction Point. The blaze, apparently touched off by a smoldering campfire there, scorched 1.5 acres and penetrated as deeply as 100 feet into the forest of Chilkat State Park. “We had […]
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Scrap metal drive set
Haines Friends of Recycling is holding a scrap metal drive 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12 at its Small Tracts Road center. Drive coordinator Frank Holmes said the group had stopped accepting scrap metals when prices for it plummeted early in the recession, but prices have since improved. Accepting […]
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New bear monitor has experience in similar settings
Five years ago, Shannon Donahue read a newspaper story about a biologist who studied interactions between people and bears along the Chilkoot River. “I didn’t realize before then that there was a whole field of study on human-bear interactions,” Donahue said. Several years of field work and a master’s degree later, Donahue is the new bear monitor at […]
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Hart leads derby after 1st weekend
The catch was up, but fish were small during the first weekend of the 32nd Haines King Salmon Derby. Twenty-four fishermen turned in 30 kings during the Memorial Day weekend. Richard Hart of Haines led with a king 28.75 pounds. Hart was trailed by Ray Staska, 26.35, and Jeff Fields, 22.75. Clear, calm, warm weather allowed […]
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Boy, 14, drowns within view of crowds at PC Dock beach
Haines Borough officials were scheduling a meeting this week among emergency responders, social workers, and school officials to make sure witnesses to a drowning Saturday at Port Chilkoot Dock have access to counseling. Andrew Williamson, 14, drowned in about 10 feet of water 100 feet offshore on a warm afternoon as 50 or more people at […]