The annual Dick Hotch Memorial Basketball Tournament is scheduled to start Thursday, Feb. 13 and run through Sunday at the Haines School. This year’s event is slated for four teams. The defending champion Klukwan Chilkats will be back to defend their title, along with the runner-up Harbor Heat and two Juneau teams. The tournament starts Thursday, with […]
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Highway residents push school ideas
About 20 upper valley residents and others made an enthusiastic appeal for keeping Mosquito Lake School open Tuesday, saying the Haines Borough School District’s goal of enrolling 10 students there might be met by expanding the K-4 school’s class range, improving “marketing” or transforming it into an alternative school. Those options may involve busing students from town […]
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Kerttula’s move starts jockeying
Who will represent Haines in the Alaska Legislature is now a little less certain following the resignation this week of longtime state Rep. Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau. Kertulla resigned from her House seat Monday to take a position as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University. While Kertulla’s newly-vacant seat currently […]
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State upholds fishing license deal
In a Dec. 12 letter, the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Game formally denied a petition by the Upper Lynn Canal Advisory Board to rescind a reciprocal agreement that allows Yukon Territory residents the same price as Alaskans for fishing licenses. The agreement allows Alaskans to buy fishing licenses in the Yukon at the same […]
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Deadline for local crab proposals is April 10
Residents wanting changes in local subsistence crabbing regulations have until April 10 to submit proposals to the state Board of Fisheries. The board will consider Southeast shellfish and finfish regulatory proposals next year. Any individual can make a proposal to change existing regulations. Forms are at the Fish and Game office. “This is pretty important. […]
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In 2013, projects belied forecast
For the first time since the rebuilt Haines School was oriented toward Old Haines Highway in 2007, students could make it to the school along a sidewalk. The $975,000 project was one of several changing the face of downtown in the past year. Work also started on the $6 million Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village and the […]
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Risley, King to advisory panel
Haines resident Jamie King is the new member of the Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee. The board held its annual election Tuesday. Haines resident Dean Risley was also re-elected to his seat, as was Luke Rauscher, who ran unopposed for a seat reserved for a Skagway resident. Klukwan resident Johnnie Gamble also was elected, though Klukwan hasn’t […]
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Advisory committee election set Dec. 17
Four seats are up for grabs on the Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee when the group meets Dec. 17. The meeting starts 7 p.m. in the assembly chambers. Two Haines seats – currently held by Dean Risley and Dave Werner – are open, and one Skagway seat – held by Luke Rauscher – also […]
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More than 80 people attended Sunday’s Party in Pink, a fundraiser for former resident Kaci Ahmuty, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The elementary gym was packed with people dressed in pink, doing “dancy yoga” and Zumba to a playlist of mixed songs. Mandy Ramsey, Alissa Henry and Jackie Ruggirello led the moves. SEARHC’s […]
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Fisherman says road work hurt setnet site
Klukwan resident Marvin Willard said dumping of fill by state Department of Transportation crews at 23 Mile Haines Highway has diverted a stream and ruined a downstream subsistence fishing spot just north of the village. A local DOT official said the agency can’t control what happens with water outside the state’s right-of-way. Willard said he’s […]