The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously Tuesday for contracting with an assessing firm to complete borough assessments and to train a local person for the assessor job. Borough manager Mark Earnest said the most qualified job applicant for the assessor and land manager position, Dave Lockrem of Wisconsin, declined the borough’s offer last week. “For whatever reason, it’s hard […]
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Chamber aims effort at assembly
The Haines Chamber of Commerce’s primary goal this year: Regular participation in local government. Regular chamber participation at borough meetings and five other priorities were ideas culled from a list generated by about 35 residents at a brainstorming meeting in March aimed at giving the chamber direction. “It was a good representation of the community […]
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Without a taxi, visitors hitchhike
Sharon and Gregory Belisle of Whitehorse, Y.T., have been coming to Haines about 15 years, often on a cabin cruiser they keep in Skagway. Last week, their boat’s steering went out in Lynn Canal, and they limped into the harbor to make repairs. But with no local cab service, the Belisles were left hauling heavy pipe […]
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Spoken Tlingit in race against time
Like similar programs that have sprung up in the region in the past decade, Sheldon Museum’s Tlingit class is building an appreciation and awareness of the area’s indigenous language. But a larger effort will be needed to keep the language from fading into history, advocates say. “The fate of the Tlingit language is a lot […]
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Assembly OKs 10K pay hike for harbormaster
The Haines Borough Assembly Friday May 7 gave the borough manager the go-ahead to increase harbormaster pay by up to $10,000 to attract the borough’s top candidate, currently harbormaster in Whittier. The borough budgeted $58,000 in wages for the harbormaster position this year, up from $55,000 it paid former harbormaster Christian Racich. The assembly’s okay gives borough […]
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Election rule change fuels assembly spat
The Haines Borough Assembly last week tangled over a draft ordinance revising local election laws, sending the proposed law to its government services committee for review after a heated discussion. The borough is seeking to clarify its election rules in the wake of a successful lawsuit brought by voters last fall that overturned results of an election […]
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Thanks for supporting fair Spring Fling
I’d like to thank everyone who turned out at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds May 8 to make Spring Fling a great event. Thanks so much to the fair board and staff for their hard work, and to Nicole Edwards and her band for playing a great concert. We appreciate those who chose to show […]
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Emblem Club supports Little League
On behalf of the Haines Little League, I would like to thank the Haines Emblem Club for their generous donation to our league. The baseball players are gearing up for their season with the opening game on May 13at 4:30 at Fair Field. Once again we will have three teams of hardball players and at […]
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Amounts matter; Haines is unique
I’ve lived in Fairbanks 10 years and am in what may be a long process sorting out moving to Haines. I have subscribed to CVN since last August. I saw that Steve Vick was going to trade life in Haines for a job in Fairbanks, and kind of cringed. Two issues later I saw that he’s staying and […]
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Child mental health issues are common
Chances are a child or adolescent you know has a serious mental health need. In fact, mental health problems affect one in five young people. Mental health problems are painful, especially for children and adolescents. Words that make fun of mental health create a sense of shame, feelings of guilt and loss of self-esteem. For a […]