Nash Steel Stickler was born on July 14 at Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital on the Big Island. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. Parents Daniel and Corrie Stickler with big brothers Olen and Aksel decided to buck the trend and turned the baby-waiting burden into a vacation. Traditionally, expectant parents travel from Haines to Juneau, Anchorage or Sitka […]

Dan Schultz and Stacie Evans were married at Chilkat State Park on July 24. Derek Poinsette officiated the wedding ceremony that was followed by a champagne toast and appetizers at the Park Pavilion. Stacie’s best friends from college, Traci and Cory Smith, came from Great Falls, Montana, and her parents Tom and Susan Evans traveled up from Boise, Idaho. Dan’s parents Laverne and Richard Schultz joined from Stillwater, Minnesota. His sister Mary Wellington, brother-in-law […]

Jenn Walsh, Jessica Kayser-Forster, and Abbey Holmes are home from a nine-day and 100-mile journey. They were dropped on top of Flower Mountain by Coastal Helicopters and proceeded to hike, mostly glacier travel to Bartlett Cove in Gustavus. They used Fairweather Ski Works approach skis to traverse the glaciers. The terminus of the Carroll glacier ended up being […]

Former resident and Mud Bay landowner Dave Walker recently spent 10 days at his beachfront cabin. Besides visiting across-the-bay neighbors Randy and Mira Ericksen, he worked on his place. “Other than that, I saw some other friends from six feet away, yelling into the wind. It was an interesting trip,” he said. Walker is a fine woodworker who has created […]

A ridge atop Flower Mountain set a dramatic backdrop for Saturday’s wedding of Teslin Podsiki and Josh Whitby. Teslin’s mom Teri Bastable-Podsiki served as officiant. Out-of-town guests included Josh’s mom Dana Whitby of Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., Teslin’s aunt Penny Reed of North Carolina and cousins Alice and Taylor Reed. Visitors in the wedding party included Martin and Tori Justus of Fairbanks and Sierra Cheyenne of Pennsylvania. COVID caused a cancellation of the wedding celebration here last […]

Credit Blake Ward with finding Asher Jimenez’s lost mountain bike. Blake was throwing a Frisbee with his girlfriend on the lot in front of the Presbyterian Church. An errant throw sent him into a brushy ditch there where he found the bike, which appeared to have been stashed there, Blake said. He turned the bike in to the police […]

Haines High grad Kirby Faverty, 19, has won the Mark Robb Award at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo. The award recognizes a student athlete who “consistently contributes to the team’s success and leads through example by commitment, dedication and teamwork.” A shooting guard, Kirby was named spring MVP on the school’s hoops squad last year. He’ll […]