Homer is a fishing and tourism town of about 6,000 people at the southern end of theKenai Peninsula. It’s more politically diverse than most cities in Alaska, with a strongliberal side, an equally strong conservative side, and some who just want to tend theirgardens, smoke their fish, hope the Safeway is stocked and that they […]
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Tribal traditional healing gets Medicaid reimbursement in 4 states
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Art Martinez has seen the power of ceremony. Martinez, a clinical psychologist and member of the Chumash Tribe, helped run an American Indian youth ceremonial camp. Held at a sacred tribal site in Northern California, it was designed to help kids’ mental health. He remembers a 14-year-old girl who had been struggling with substance use and was on […]
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SEARHC submits hospital complex plans
Southeast Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) has submitted building plans to the borough for a proposed hospital and medical facility near Jones Point. Although the plan is still in preliminary stages, it lays out a number of possible changes to healthcare services in Haines, including the addition of a 24-hour emergency department and a long-term care […]
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Another sinkhole opens on the Lutak dock
About midday on Friday, an Alaska Marine Lines employee called the Haines harbormaster to let him know a new sinkhole had formed on the Lutak dock. Borough staff spent the weekend repairing the hole that harbormaster Henry Pollan said was at cell 12, near the center of the dock, about 20 feet from the guardrail. […]
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Friends of Eileen Wafer again seek memorial for her near the cruise ship dock
Friends of a teenage murder victim whose case has remained unsolved in Haines for decades are again asking for a memorial to be placed where her body was found. Midge McClellan Clark sent a letter to Mayor Tom Morphet in August, asking him to help find a memorial spot for Eileen Wafer, a 14-year-old who […]
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Lone Haines runner ‘ran her best race of the season’ at state in Palmer
Sophia Hedden was the lone racer for Haines High School at the Alaska School Activities Association Cross Country Division I State Championships in Palmer on Saturday. She landed a 15th-place finish by completing the five-kilometer run in 23 minutes and 3.13 seconds. The race, held at the Mike Janecek Trails at Palmer High School, was […]
Posted inLocal News, Elections
Municipal election Oct. 7; early voting closes Oct. 6
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the ANB/ANS Hall in Haines, and the Klehini Valley Fire Department on Mosquito Lake, for voters to select two assembly members, two planning commission members, two school board members and whether the town should have a seasonal sales tax. Early, or […]
Posted inEnvironment & Natural Resources, Local News
State reports a strong run of Chilkat Kings, some concern remains
The Chilkat river king salmon run returned in high-numbers to spawn this summer — the first season after the run was removed from the state-designated stock of concern list. For much of the last decade and a half, king salmon, or chinook, arrived to spawning streams up the Chilkat in numbers below what state biologists […]
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Duly Noted: Apple pressing, catching a ride, an anniversary, and Haines’ hair routines
Nelle Jurgeleit-Greene is pretty good apple-press operator and trainer of apple pressers. She was on site to teach the finer points of smashing apples into cider at Saturday’s farmers market. She says the cider press was donated to the market by Doug Evenden and DeLise Keim. The press came with the purchase of their house. […]