Monday, Sept. 6 A caller reported two bears walking up Second Avenue, north of Main Street at 2:30 a.m. Officer responded and found the bears had gotten into the bank trash can and a dumpster in a nearby alley. Officer chased them into the woods near Fourth Avenue. A caller reported two bears on Third […]
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Eagle festival lifts off for 17th year
A completed eagle enclosure, including artificial trees, a waterfall and diorama backdrop will be open for the 17th Alaska Bald Eagle Festival this week. The master mew at the American Bald Eagle Foundation is part of a $700,000 addition completed last spring. The display is an important step for the foundation because it allows visitors to see eagles […]
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Students share in learning
The Haines School third-grade class would like to thank the Klukwan School students for coming to our classroom to share in an afternoon of learning. The older students taught us about seals. We learned about seal anatomy and how the Tlingits used each part of the seal for a special purpose. We also learned how seals stay warm […]
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Kind deeds help family move forward
As a girl, Edith Jacquot went from being treated at the hospital in Fort Seward to the wonderful clinic we have now. A special “thanks and praise” to the SEARHC clinic for the compassion and professional treatment, that each and every employee showed to Edith. Al Badgley, and co-workers, you are so wonderful. Words cannot […]
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Police Blotter
Monday, Sept. 13 A Fourth Avenue caller reported a friend associated with someone who may have drugs. A caller reported a dump truck speeding in a school zone had pitched a rock that cracked their windshield. Sunday, Sept. 12 An officer responded to a call that an uninvited person broke into a Fourth Avenue home […]
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Duly Noted
Asher Mack Jimenez was born Wednesday, Oct. 12 to Sierra and Carlos Jimenez. Asher weighed 7 lbs., 3 ozs. He was greeted soon after his arrival by big brother Hayden. Sierra’s parents, Hayden and Bonnie Kaden, flew in from Gustavus on Asher’s birthday to meet their newest grandson. Carlos’ mom, Susan Tandy, took the ferry […]
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Duly Noted
Gunshots, thunder or explosives? Those were among theories circulating to explain a series of loud booms heard around town early Tuesday morning. As many as 10 booms were heard around 5:30 a.m. by residents in an area that stretched at least from Piedad Road to 1 Mile Mud Bay Road. Some guessed the sounds were […]
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Elliott to lead BBBS
Sarah Elliott will start as the new community director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Upper Lynn Canal on Friday, Sept. 2. Elliott will step in for Burl Sheldon, who helped launch the local program in 2003. “Burl’s done an excellent job promoting the program and getting it good popularity, and there’s a lot of respect for […]
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Legion collages spotlight veterans
Most folks would be surprised at how many of their fellow locals have a background of military service. So far, the American Legion has identified more than 60 locals who served in a branch of the military at some point in their life and local American Legion post historian Bill McRoberts has put his artistic […]
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House concert a fund-raising success
I’d like to thank Hospice of Haines board member Tim McDonough and his wife Ann Myren for hosting a house concert fundraiser at their lovely Lutak home recently. The concert raised about $2,000, which will go toward hospice services in the community. We’d also like to thank the terrifically talented and entertaining musicians who donated their time […]