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Glacier pilot Drake Olson finds his flow state
Olson’s natural inclination — developed for years as a professional race car driver in his 20s — has kept him and his clients safe since 1997 when he started Fly Drake, his charter flying service that he continues to operate today.
Posted inNews, Health
GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility
GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients trying […]
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Middle school wrestlers find state champs success, despite highway woes
Haines middle school wrestlers returned from a successful showing at the state championships in Fairbanks that tested them in the ring — as well as during their return home. The return drive included more than 15 hours of road time, plus a last-minute trip on a fishing tender. In an interview Tuesday, coach Jake Mason […]
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Southeast Road Builders appeals permit remand for Lutak Road project
Southeast Road Builders is appealing a November assembly decision to add more requirements to a permit to extract and store gravel on Lutak Road. In its appeal, the company argues the assembly overstepped its authority by sending a permit back to the planning commission to rehear. Among other points, the company says the assembly didn’t […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Assembly, scale back the Lutak mega-dock
In Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 silent film Modern Times, he is sucked through the conveyor belt and giant gears of industry. 25 years later Republican President Eisenhower issued the same warning about the military-industrial complex. Today in Haines, public funds still feed gigantic gears of private extractive industry — the Haines Highway, Porcupine/Constantine Road upgrades, Palmer […]
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Keep sexualized events out of CVN
If there are future burlesque-type events, like the Nude and Rude show that happened recently, please refrain from printing in the newspaper photos of individual performers in sexual/indecent poses and attire. I understand we live near Juneau, and are therefore influenced by its loud and proud anything-sexual-goes message, but our kids don’t need to pick […]
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Watershed Weekly: “Jilḵáat Héení T’á (Chilkat River King Salmon)
This column is sponsored by Takshanuk Watershed Council By Derek Poinsette A couple of weeks ago, we here in the Upper Lynn Canal were blessed with a consistent stretch of light winds and warm temperatures, with highs in the 40s, and near-perfect conditions for rigging up the poles and trolling Portage Cove for winter king […]
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Legislature plans March 12 vote on Gov. Dunleavy’s executive orders
The Alaska House and Senate have asked Gov. Mike Dunleavy to withdraw three of the 12 executive orders he issued at the start of the legislative session and are planning up-or-down votes on at least six others. According to a draft plan shared with reporters Friday, the votes will take place March 12, during a joint session of the […]
Posted inNews, Wildlife, Salmon
New salmon study adds to evidence that pink salmon could be crowding out sockeye
A new analysis of nearly 25,000 fish scales offers more evidence that the millions of pink salmon churned out by Alaska fish hatcheries could be harming wild sockeye salmon populations when they meet in the ocean, according to the scientists who authored the study. The new peer-reviewed paper, published this week in the ICES Journal of […]