Records provided by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell’s office this week show Haines Borough tourism director Lori Stepansky and assistant Angie Robinson sent e-mails in opposition to cruise ship head tax funds being used for improvements to the fairgrounds’ Harriett Hall. Robinson also objected to the state providing $2 million for the Chilkat Indian Village to buy the […]

Haines photographer Kathleen Menke has published her third book of photographs, “Spirits of the North.” The 80-page, self-published softcover represents three years of photos taken on trips through the North including ones from the Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Denali National Park and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Other locations include Copper River Delta, northern British Columbia […]

 Some residents opposed $2 million in state funding for Klukwan’s purchase of the Chilkat Cruises dock and vessel and $277,000 for renovation of the fair’s Harriett Hall as a convention center, staff to Gov. Sean Parnell’s budget director said this week. State Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, submitted the two requests to be funded from cruise ship […]

If you spill your coffee driving down Third Avenue, you might consider a bib. Resurfacing of downtown streets – recently a high priority for the Haines Borough – will likely wait until 2011 or later, according to borough manager Mark Earnest. Failure to secure funding of the project by the Alaska Legislature torpedoed the borough’s main funding […]

Like similar programs that have sprung up in the region in the past decade, Sheldon Museum’s Tlingit class is building an appreciation and awareness of the area’s indigenous language. But a larger effort will be needed to keep the language from fading into history, advocates say. “The fate of the Tlingit language is a lot […]

Students in the Sheldon Museum’s Tlingit language come for different reasons, but the class has proved its staying power as it enters its 13th year, said Kathy Friedle, who organizes it for the museum. “Typically attendance runs between 10 and 15 students, but it’s gone as high as 18. I think people enjoy the language and […]