The American Bald Eagle Foundation announced Tuesday that it is canceling its November festival due to COVID-19 concerns and a limited budget. “We’ve had an incredibly difficult couple of years,” said ABEF raptor program manager Sidney Campbell. “We’re stretched really thin as far as resources go because we’ve had such poor tourism. We could try to host […]
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Arts Outlook
Musical documentary depicts First Nations empowerment The story of a newspaper and how it helped unite a group of First Nations activists fighting for social justice is the subject of a documentary that will come to Haines in November. The Haines Arts Council will be screening the award-winning musical documentary “The Road Forward.” The documentary […]
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This Week in History
July 16, 1971 Pipeline halt will cut down jobs Closure of the Army’s Haines-Fairbanks petroleum products pipeline from Haines to Tok will result in about a two-thirds reduction in personnel at the Haines terminal, Col. B. A. Spinks, director of petroleum supply control center, U.S. Army, Alaska, said last night. The pipeline will be placed […]
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Duly Noted
A group of elementary students slept at Haines School for a “peep-over” Friday, when the library’s chicken eggs were expected to hatch. Organized by school librarian Leigh Horner, who kept her personal chicken eggs in the library as a learning tool for students, the event was Horner’s spring reading contest prize. About 100 students were eligible. […]
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Duly Noted
Bob Lowden, a mechanic who operated a garage in Haines for more than 20 years, died Monday at a hospice facility in Wasilla. He was 64 and had cancer. A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition of the CVN. Local photographer John Hagen is one of four recipients of this year’s Connie Boochever Fellowship, which recognizes […]
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Henderson field soil samples show low levels of contaminants
Test results from the Henderson field where community gardeners and the farm Foundroot grow vegetables have come back showing a low level of diesel, a finding Takshanuk Watershed Council’s Derek Poinsette says is still preliminary. Poinsette said the presence of diesel is low and it’s unclear if it existed in the soil prior to the […]
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Bald Eagle Foundation nixes planting in Henderson Field
Foundroot seeks new fields By Kyle Clayton Citing erosion and the possibilities of contamination stemming from December floods, the American Bald Eagle Foundation board won’t allow the use of its Henderson field for agriculture this summer, frustrating gardeners and farmers who lease the land each year. The farmers say they are confused by the board’s decision and […]
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Duly Noted
KTVA Anchorage Channel 11’s Heather Hintze traveled to Haines last week to interview owners of the Haines Brewing Company and Port Chilkoot Distillery. Hintze spoke with brewery co-owner Paul Wheeler and customers Ed Hays and Darwin Feakes on Friday, before moving on to the distillery, where she interviewed co-owner Heather Shade and employee Macky Cassidy. Both the brewery and distillery are also featured in the October […]
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Duly Noted
Adze Scott Hart was born to parents Ted Hart and Meghan Elliott on Sept. 10 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital. He weighed seven pounds and measured 21 inches. Hart’s mother Harriett Brouillette, brother James Hart and cousin Zach James were in the waiting room during the birth. The grandparents are Harriett, Glen Brouillette, Joan Elliott and Scott Schneider. The couple returned to Haines on Sunday. “Mountain Mamas Gone Mad” […]
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Video celebrates what would have been 26th Alaska Bald Eagle Festival
On Wednesday, the American Bald Eagle Foundation released a short film “trailer” to mark what would have been the 26th annual Alaska Bald Eagle Festival. The video is available for viewing on the foundation’s website, Facebook page and Instagram. Like most public events in 2020, this year’s Alaska Bald Eagle Festival was cancelled back in June due […]