Klukwan Chilkats take master’s bracket At some point in his life, some time before tip-off Saturday, Andrew Friske forgot how to miss a shot. For four quarters in the Gold Medal masters’ bracket championship, the memory never came back. It was shooting, shooting, and more shooting from Klukwan’s lineup of Gold Medal hall-of-famers, who didn’t […]
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Klukwan Heads to Gold Medal Championship
Thursday’s 77th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament action saw five teams earn semifinal wins and a day of rest before playing in their respective bracket championships on Saturday. The Klukwan masters were the first team of the day to punch their ticket to the finals on Saturday with an 87-60 win over […]
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Scenes from the Klukwan school circus
Clowns, elephants and wolves filled the Klukwan School gymnasium during their circus show on March 19. Students ages 4-13 years old performed choreographed routines for their families and community members before enjoying sushi made by one of the circus performers, Felix Benassi. Thirteen students performed, led by Klukwan teacher Tiffany DeWitt. The idea to do […]
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Klukwan school launches food program for families facing SNAP funding cutoff
Families whose children attend Klukwan School are going home this week with extra food to help carry them through the weekends. The new weekend food program was designed to respond to parents who learned in the last few weeks that their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds would be cut off in November due to the […]
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Klukwan residents focus on resource extraction, open government during talk with state lawmakers
Government transparency, oversight of permits, and the impact of logging and mining in the Chilkat Valley were a few of the topics state lawmakers Andi Story and Jesse Kiehl heard during an open house in Klukwan on Saturday. The community meeting was one of a handful the local legislative delegation held during a long weekend […]
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NDN Girls Book Club brings Indigenous literature, art to pop-up in Klukwan
Last week, families and students in Klukwan gathered in the library to meet members of a rapidly growing nonprofit that hosts pop-up book shops and gives away free Indigenous-centered books. It was one stop in a 10-day tour of the region by the NDN Girls Book Club, a national organization which partnered with Southeast Alaska’s […]
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Sitka tops Klukwan for Gold Medal Masters tournament title
Klukwan was looking to slow down a Sitka team that had beaten their three previous opponents in the 76th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament by an average of more 20 points in the George Houston Gymnasium. Sitka was looking to avenge last year’s loss in the title game to Hoonah. Sitka was […]
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Klukwan, Haines teams advance to Gold Medal finals
Thursday action at the 76th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in the George Houston Gymnasium saw defending B Bracket champion Angoon win their semifinal over a game Hoonah squad, a masterful Sitka team topple Kake for a finals berth, the remnants of Prince of Wales — with some new pieces and renamed […]
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Duly Noted: A new author, a trip to Canada, Brewfest, a carving workshop, tomatoes in Klukwan
Camelia Bell joined the ranks of published authors in Haines with a piece called “The Road,” which came out in The Sun magazine’s March 2025 edition. In response to a prompt about “chores,” Bell wrote about how life in Haines and walking home is not a chore, but a way of life. Bell said she […]
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This Week in History: A safe town, H1N1 death, a meteor, Klukwan gets a new VPSO
State’s safest town? Police tout rating The Haines Borough Police Department this week touted a ranking of the municipality as the “safest town in Alaska,” posting a “Five Safest Cities” badge to its Facebook page. SafeWise, a private company that allows users to compare home security systems, developed a list of the top five safest […]