The Haines Merchants figure to have a size advantage at this year’s Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau. The competition begins Sunday. Team stalwart Ben Egolf (6’10”) will be joined by his “little” brother, the 6’9” Will, on the Merchants’ roster. The younger Egolf wrapped up his Division I basketball career at Bradley University last […]
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Ten Klukwan School students and chaperones Cynthia and John McFeeters, Carson Buck and Katherine Hotch recently returned from a Juneau ski trip. The students, ranging from second to twelfth-graders, participated in morning lessons and enjoyed free time skiing in the afternoons. Senior Danielle Dallmann said learning to ski was easier than expected. The group also […]
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Olympic torch may come back
It’s been nearly 30 years since Haines funded former resident Nadine Price’s trip to Seattle, where the college runner carried the 1984 Olympic torch for the summer games held in Los Angeles. Price, who grew up in Haines, wants to give her torch and torchbearer uniform to the Sheldon Museum. “Really, what am I doing […]
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ANB/ANS honor 3 on Peratrovich Day
Haines ANB and ANS on Sunday honored residents Mike Denker, David Light and the late Brendan Larson as people whose work helped the cause of civil rights in Haines. The recognition was part of a local celebration of Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. “The things (the honorees) have done have helped advance understanding between people and cultures,” […]
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Hotch tourney starting
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 […]