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Senior center stocks up on sockeye
The Haines Senior Center would like to thank the Chilkoot Indian Association for their generous grant to purchase Sockeye Salmon from local fishermen...
By Duly Noted
Hazel Englund celebrated her 101st birthday Saturday with visits from family and friends at her hilltop home near 2 Mile Haines Highway. More than 30...
Thanks to Garden Partiers
We would like to thank all those that came out to support Takshanuk Watershed Council’s garden education program at our Garden Party fund raiser...
Food donations boost senior center
On behalf of the Haines Senior Center, I want to give a huge thank you to all the people who help support the center. Recently, Dr. Stan Jones...
Seabee Bieleski traveled widely
A rosary is scheduled 7 p.m. Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for lifelong resident Tom...
Planners: Don't expand borough
The Haines Borough Planning Commission quashed the idea of expanding borough boundaries after the assembly referred the idea to planners last month....
Assembly adds to budget for health care, nonprofits, library
The Haines Borough Assembly approved several of member Margaret Friedenauer’s suggested budget amendments Tuesday, adding money to non-profits,...
Committee raises sales tax questions
Should the Haines Borough and nonprofits collect sales tax on sales of goods and services? An assembly subcommittee looking at ways to raise revenues...
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Carol Iverson of Salem, Ore., was in town last week, visiting brother Don Hartmann and catching up with friends. Former schoolmates she visited includ...
Forester job clears initial hurdlle
The state House of Representatives Finance Committee approved an amendment last week that could lead to funding for a nine-month forester position in...
Legislation planted to save forestry job
Legislation has been introduced in the state House of Representatives to fund a forester in Haines. The forestry office, operated here since the...
Assembly refines tax message
Haines Borough Assembly members agreed the municipality should send a message to lawmakers preferring a state income tax over a statewide sales tax du...
Assembly to mull state tax issues
Should the Haines Borough take a position on a statewide sales tax or a state income tax? The borough assembly will meet as a committee 4 p.m....
Assembly extends lobbyist's hire
The Haines Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to keep lobbyist Bill Thomas on the job until June, to advertise for a permanent borough manager in Alaska...
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Two Haines High School graduates met up at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in New Orleans....
Facilities chief Ryan is interim manager
Haines Borough Facilities Director Brad Ryan is once again interim manager. Mayor Jan Hill broke a 3-3 assembly deadlock Tuesday, giving Ryan the...
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The Haines Volunteer Fire Department can help you make your winter a safe one. Vouchers for $30 off the price of ice grippers are available on a...
Fair membership meeting, dinner Friday at Harriett Hall
The Southeast Alaska State Fair will hold its annual membership meeting starting 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 at the fairgrounds’ Harriett Hall. A dinner...
Veteran tally slipping?
Local officials often proclaim Haines as boasting the highest number of veterans per capita in Alaska, but a report released last month by Alaska...
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Kee Heywood is credited as an editor of the micro-documentary film, “The Search for Earth Proxima,” by Speculative Films. The film, which...
Manager delays harbor job, for a moment
Less than seven hours after postponing the Small Boat Harbor expansion project, Haines Borough Manager Bill Seward retracted the directive and gave...
Vote on tourism tax advances
After more than an hour of testimony from residents, the Haines Borough Finance Committee last week recommended to let voters in the fall municipal...
Letter-writer omitted some facts
Regarding Karen Hess’ letter in last week’s paper in which she describes the facts behind the funding of the Port Chilkoot Dock complex: her...
Dock was also paid by grants, head tax
In response to last week’s article, specifically to J.R. Churchill and the petition to repeal the 1 percent sales tax that funds the tourism...
The bullies have taken over Haines
Don Turner III, while sitting at the Planning Commission table last week, wore a T-shirt that said, “I like the sound you make when you shut up....
