The website Thrillist has named the Haines Highway Alaska’s best scenic drive. “It’s not the road or even the legendary backdrop that puts Haines Highway at the top, because natural beauty is already something Alaska has in abundance. It’s the wildlife-watching opportunities along Haines that make the difference. Also known as the Valley of the […]
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Haines Borough fireman Al Badgley received a standing ovation when he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual Southeast Emergency Medical Services Symposium in Juneau last weekend. Badgley received numerous nominations for the award, said conference organizer and former Haines resident Julie Anderson. One of the nomination letters referred to Badgley as “a tireless champion for […]
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With regard to the mining forum last week
PR spectacles displaying glossy certainties are paramount to professing the gospel of wealth. In order to create the kinds of over-confident narratives about weather and climate prediction, speculation over volatile global economies, and a risk assessment about building infrastructure on a fault line under a glacier, a kind of faith-like scientific approach must be adopted. […]
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Haines Assembly misses Army Corps public comment deadline
The Haines Borough is asking the federal government to halt interim plans for in-place remediation for contaminated soil at 15 Mile on the Haines Highway. Last month, the Army Corps of Engineers detailed a proposal for cleaning up soil contaminated in 1968 by a 33,000-gallon fuel leak from the Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline. The proposal included plans to remove […]
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Army Corps proposes soil cleanup plan
To remove fuel contaminants in the soil at 15.5 Mile Haines Highway, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed excavating at least 7,500 tons of soil as part of an interim soil removal action. The Army Corps is currently evaluating local landfarming as an alternative compared to shipping the soil to the Lower 48. The Army […]
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Arts Outlook
Photos and demos at July First Friday Businesses participating in Haines’ First Friday celebration invite the public to view nature photography, live demonstrations, landscape paintings and more from 5 to 7 p.m. July 6. Port Chilkoot Distillery will display photos by local nature photographer Tom Ganner, but not of his regular wild Alaska subjects. He’ll […]
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Residents felt the heat in 2019
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s deep budget cut proposals and the ensuing battle for ferries, education, community assistance, public radio and a slew of other services dominated headlines this year. The town celebrated the Haines Glacier Bears cross country team after it won the state championship in October. The debate over borough-wide policing persisted another year. The […]
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This Week in History
Archive news from 50, 25 and 10 years ago February 15, 1969 Representatives from Haines to the re-organization meeting of the Southeast Conference learned last Saturday that the contract for the construction of a bridge across the Chilkat River will be met as soon as possible. Warren Wild of the State Highway Department, who spoke at the […]
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Andrea Hedrick and Herky Deppner were married Dec. 30, 2011 in a sunset ceremony on Canova Beach in Melbourne, Fla. The bride is the daughter of Susan and Fred Johnston of Haines and Cynthia and Jim Hedrick of Bedford, Va. The groom is the son of Hannah and Mike Deppner, formerly of Juneau. The flower girl was Sharayah Jo Chapman, the groom’s niece. The ring […]
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Looming SCOTUS decision delays permit
By Jenna Kunze The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s forthcoming decision to approve or revoke Constantine Metal Resources’ waste management permit is delayed, in part because of a U.S. Supreme Court verdict that has the potential to change federal permitting law. DEC will also consider the results of a tracer dye test it requested Constantine […]