Monday, May 26 A caller at the Small Boat Harbor reported crows and ravens in the trash. A Raven Road resident called to ask for help getting a pet macaw out of a tree. The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel was advised. A person came to the station to report personal identification information was taken from […]
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Police Report
Monday, May 12 A Haines resident reported the amount on a check they had written was changed. Police initiated a case for forgery. A caller reported a dog had jumped on a vehicle parked on Dolphin Street, damaging and scratching it. A report was filed. A caller reported people camping at Carr’s Cove, but was […]
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Fish and Wildlife looks into Chilkat Lake resident after ‘falcon’ attack
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating a Chilkat Lake property owner for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act after he wrote in a blog account of how he hacked off a falcon’s foot with a machete. Nathanael Motes and his wife Jennifer Motes write a blog called Motes Mountain Chronicles, detailing the Texas […]
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Police Report
Sunday, April 13 Troopers reported discovering multiple prescription drugs and hypodermic needles inside a vehicle that had thawed out of a snow bank near Tlingit Park. Police responded and had the vehicle towed after initiating a case. The drugs and needles were secured for destruction. A caller reported someone on Sunshine Street burning plastic and […]
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Conservation group presents Chilkat River Tier 3 discussion
A scientist from a regional conservation group presented information to a crowd of more than 100 people about what a Tier 3 designation might entail for the Chilkat River. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council staff scientist Guy Archibald spoke for about an hour in the American Bald Eagle Foundation Saturday evening. People in support and in opposition of the […]
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Mysterious, ‘weird’ and frozen fish washes ashore in Chilkat Inlet
As the tide ebbed down the beach outside his house Friday, Harry Rietze discovered a mysterious sea creature that one scientific paper described as “a puzzling fish with soft bones.” The brown, frozen animal Rietze found is a ragfish, and little is known about them. A few have washed up on beaches in Gustavus and […]
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Roger Schnabel to sell Southeast Roadbuilders
After 41 years in business Roger Schnabel is selling Southeast Roadbuilders to the multinational transportation construction company Colas Group. When the sale is finalized, Southeast Roadbuilders will become a subsidiary of Colas Group’s Alaska affiliate Colaska. Regional companies such as AGGPRO Juneau and Secon are also subsidiaries of Colaska. Southeast Roadbuilders CFO Brenda Josephson said […]
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2017 sees shifting leadership, new beginnings
A shakeup in leadership across government and business, a group of unsatisfied citizens who challenged the assembly and how to approach policing outside the townsite dominated the news this year. The first ripples of discontent occurred after the assembly rejected Diana Lapham’s application to sit on the Ports and Harbor Advisory committee. Don Turner and […]
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Chilkoot group calls for an end to ‘fake Native art’
Citing the spread of what they called “fake Native art” displayed in Haines, several Chilkoot Alaska Natives will draft a policy on how they expect Native art to be displayed and sold in the borough. “Haines is perpetuating a lie,” master carver Wayne Price said as he read from a prepared statement during a forum […]
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Haines artists will be well represented at Juneau’s Dimond Park Aquatic Center. Husband and wife teams Donna Catotti and Rob Goldberg and John and Sharon Svenson are creating large pieces in the pool’s lobby and main viewing area. Donna and Rob worked together on sliding glass partition doors and windows that depict an underwater kelp forest, with a figure swimming among sea life. […]