Projects in the Chilkat Valley would receive $18.9 million in state funding from bills approved in the past week by the Alaska Legislature, including $6.1 million for a new veterans’ home and $4.5 million in harbor breakwater improvements. The amount is the highest in years. State Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, who helped secure the funds, said […]
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Friedenauer leads KHNS news programs
Former Chilkat Valley News staffer Margaret Friedenauer started as news and public affairs director at KHNS this week. Friedenauer, 35, took the reins from Tara Bicknell, who joined KHNS in 2008. Friedenauer filled in for CVN editor Tom Morphet last summer and for four weeks early this year and then handled website redesign and advertising […]
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Sales tax revenues up 1 percent in 2011
Haines Borough sales tax revenues increased 1 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, with retail showing the strongest gains and restaurants and bars taking the biggest hit. The retail increase of 6 percent includes fuel sales, which Haines Chamber of Commerce President Ned Rozbicki suggested were the driving force in pushing sales tax revenues to […]
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Friends at the Pioneers of Alaska’s Sunday meeting sang “Happy Birthday” to Layton A. Bennett in anticipation of his 93rd birthday Thursday, April 12. Wife Lou is organizing a family party with sons Lynn Bennett of Juneau and Eric Bennett of Bellevue, Wash. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the […]
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I.R.A. council needs to follow rules
I’ve been back in Haines since 1997 and have yet to say I’m proud of our I.R.A. I’ve seen much and heard much and just lately they paid out a big sum of money for their negligence. How shameful of that. That money could have been used for culture and heritage, our people so do […]
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Haines teams fall in Gold Medal finals
The Haines Merchants and Klukwan Masters met similar fates in championship games of the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau last weekend. Both teams finished as runners-up after losing halftime leads. The Merchants opened the tournament with wins over Kake and Angoon in the “B” bracket, and then fell to Hydaburg in the semifinals, 101-92. Haines earned […]
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Two local teams in Gold Medal semis
The Haines Merchants and Klukwan Masters combined for a 4-0 record at the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau this week and have advanced to tonight’s semifinal round. The Merchants in the “B” bracket defeated Kake, 74-59, and Angoon, 83-58. Haines High School senior Tyler Swinton made his Gold Medal debut by scoring 21 points in each […]
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Charlie Everett Blood was born to Matt and Holly Blood on March 14. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Grandmother Barb Blood had left Fairbanks after a weekend visit with the family just 12 hours earlier. Barb attributes the week-early arrival of Charlie to Holly’s walking around the Fairbanks Ice Sculpture Park for an hour […]
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Focus and creativity led designer Nash to dream career
It took a couple of casts for Corrie Nash, the youngest child in a Haines fishing family, to hook a career that suited her. A 2000 graduate of Haines High School, she started at University of Alaska Fairbanks, majoring in accounting and business. She lost interest and studied massage in California for a year, then […]
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Elias Glabek Ryan was born Feb. 15 to Jolanta and Brad Ryan in Portland, Ore. Elias weighed 8 lbs., 10 ozs. and joins big brother Atlin. The family stayed with Brad’s parents, Cecil and Joyce Ryan, in Rainier, Ore. and enjoyed spending time with Brad’s sister, JoAnna Thompson, and her family, who live next door. […]