The Picture Point Wayside Project is costing more than the Haines Borough projected, with new bathrooms at $25,000 over budget and paving of the pullouts pretty much out of the picture. The ad hoc Picture Point Design Committee met at the site Monday to discuss the project and get an update from tourism director Leslie Ross. Ross […]
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Drop in salmon prices a blow to fleet
A major drop in prices paid to fishermen soured the opening week of the Lynn Canal commercial gillnet season. Blame it on a storm in the global salmon market. Processors’ prices were down as much as nearly 50 percent for sockeye, 30 percent for chum and 64 percent for pink salmon. “(The price) is the worst it’s […]
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Minor offense ticket holiday coming to an end
Fines for minor offenses are on their way back. The Haines Borough Assembly recently introduced an ordinance that will empower police and some borough employees to write tickets for offenses ranging from illegal dumping to letting your dog run at large. Due to an April 2013 change in the court system, police and other borough employees like […]
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E-waste: 3rd highest collection
Haines Friends of Recycling volunteers packed up 17,414 pounds of electronics at the group’s ninth annual electronic waste collection event held June 5-6. Boosted by some “gigantic televisions” and computers from the former Klukwan, Inc. office, the poundage was the third highest in the event’s history, said group leader Melissa Aronson. A little more than 12,000 […]
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Testimony supports waiving cruise ship fees
Haines Borough staff and local tour operators turned out this week at an assembly Commerce Committee meeting to lobby for a proposed program that would grant docking fee waivers to cruise ship companies in the hopes of boosting sales tax revenue. Community and economic development director Bill Mandeville on Tuesday presented two options for the […]
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Thanks for help with Youth Fishing Day
The third annual Youth Fishing Day on the Chilkat River was a great success. Dozens of young anglers and their families showed up to try their hand at casting for Dolly Varden. Thank you to the sponsors who made Youth Fishing Day possible. Alaska Power and Telephone provided prizes, Alaska Sport Shop provided tackle and Howsers IGA provided snacks. If you’d […]
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Klukwan history books published
The village of Klukwan is celebrating the completion of nine locally written books on Chilkat Tlingit culture, a project funded by a 2011 Library Services Enhancement Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Written by villager and cultural advocate Lani Hotch, each title in the Klukwan History Book Series incorporates Tlingit language and recounts a story related […]
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King salmon rules tighten
Chilkat Inlet closed to July 16 Department of Fish and Game biologists this week outlined new restrictions on area fisheries aimed to protect the Chilkat king salmon return, including closing Chilkat Inlet to subsistence fishing through July 15. Sport fishing in Chilkat Inlet also will be closed through July 15, with a daily bag limit […]
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Chilkats seek top protection for river
The Chilkat Indian Village is pursuing protections for the Chilkat River that would prohibit activities affecting the river’s water quality. The village submitted a proposal to the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Advisory Council last week requesting the river be designated as an Outstanding National Resource Water, which protects waters of exceptional recreational, environmental or ecological significance […]
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Can Chilkat king salmon be saved?
Fishing restrictions to protect dwindling numbers of Chilkat king salmon may be coming to the most lucrative commercial fishery in the area – harvest of hatchery-raised chum salmon by gillnet boats in south Lynn Canal. Ed Jones, the state Department of Fish and Game’s Chinook salmon research coordinator, said this week that state biologists will meet […]