The Mosquito Lake Community Center’s Victory Garden has provided food to roughly 75 families in the Chilkat Valley this year, according to organizer Erika Merklin’s estimates. Merklin has been tracking garden use and said she will have finalized numbers once the harvest wraps up, likely around the end of September. Since June, Merklin and other […]
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Census on track to count more than 99% of households nationwide, bureau says
As of Sept. 20, 10 days before the deadline for census response, 97% of Alaskan households had been counted compared to Haines’ 32% response rate, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. In Haines, an undercount of just 1% of the population would result in a loss of $744,000 over 10 years, according to Census Bureau […]
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This Week in History
2010 Creditors worried as Cruise West flounders Tour operators and other Haines businesses may be left holding bills for Cruise West, a 37-year-old cruise line with local ties that announced a “restructuring” last week and stopped answering its phone. It has since sold its largest vessel, the 120-passenger Spirit of Oceanus, suspended bookings and replaced […]
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AMHS finalizes winter ferry schedule
The Alaska Marine Highway System began accepting bookings for its winter ferry schedule this month. Under the finalized winter schedule, Haines will receive three port calls a week—Sunday, Tuesday, Friday—from the LeConte until the vessel goes into layup in mid-February. After that, the community will receive a weekly visit from the Matanuska until the LeConte […]
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Thanks for the new dump station
We would like to thank the Haines Borough for installing a public dump station at the Sewer & Water Department on Fair Drive. A dump station is the best way to empty black and gray water tanks in an RV, camper, or trailer into a sewer system. We were concerned for both local and out-of-state campers when the dump station at Delta […]
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Appreciation for Brenda Josephson’s service
I have owned property at Porcupine for over 45 years and have been following Haines Borough politics since then. Although I’ve never met her, I’m very impressed with assembly member Brenda Josephson. Over her term, she obviously does her homework and she has time and time again been a voice of reasoned, thoughtful, and necessary decisive action […]
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This week in history
2010 Chilkats launch version of historic seafarer Klukwan villagers recently launched a 36-foot, sea-going canoe, the first of its kind to ply local waters in about 200 years. About 20 carvers and villagers gathered at Chilkat State Park a few weeks ago to see the “head” or “longtail” canoe’s maiden voyage. The boat is distinguished by […]
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Union filed grievance against borough over Alten firing
The Haines Borough is dealing with a July 14 grievance from Public Employees Local 71, the borough’s employees union, filed on behalf of former museum director Helen Alten, who was fired on June 30. A grievance is a formal process for resolving disputes relating to interpretation of the borough’s collective bargaining agreement. Alten said she decided to […]
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Assembly finalizes plan for $3.7 million in CARES Act funds
The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday finalized a plan for spending most of the $4 million the borough is scheduled to receive from the federal CARES Act, including a program granting $1,000 per adult and $500 per child to lower income households. Unlike the previously approved household grant program, which was open to any household negatively impacted by […]
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Should the permanent fund be tapped?
A measure on the ballot for the Oct. 3 election has sparked debate over the Haines Borough permanent fund’s purpose—whether the principal should function as a “rainy day” savings account during economic disasters, or whether the fund is strictly intended to support the borough through its earnings. The ballot measure, which the assembly approved in June, asks […]