A couple discovered explosives while they were hiking on the Klehini River flats last week, and subsequent bomb disposal triggered a false report of a potential plane crash. Derek Poinsette found the explosive device and said it appeared to be trash when he picked it up. “It wasn’t until we got home and unwrapped layers […]
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Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday July 24
The land by the Haines Highway 18 mile marker holds a lot of personal history for Patrick Philpott. He grew up gardening there on a plot his family has cultivated for generations, stretching back to the early 20th century, when they opened a roadhouse nearby. The land is now part of the state Chilkat Bald […]
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Lukaax̱.ádi Clan re-dedicates Raven House
In the week before Saturday’s four-hour ceremonial ku.eex, Lukaax̱.ádi clan trustee Jackie Pata spent her days running the culture camp at Chilkoot and her evenings in town putting the finishing touches on the Raven House. Pata said she had been watching children run through the house carrying things out to the garbage, helping with planting […]
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Philpott Eagle Preserve garden headed to appeal
The land by the Haines Highway 18 mile marker holds a lot of personal history for Patrick Philpott. It’s where Philpott, a hunter, got his first kill: “It was a rabbit, and I remember the rifle I used,” he said during borough assembly testimony last week. “It was a Montgomery Ward .410 single-shot bolt action. […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday July 17
The Valley of the Eagles golf course may be one of Haines’ least likely landmarks. Built on former wetlands near 1 Mile Haines Highway, it required years of permitting, constant labor and has never worked particularly well as a business. Its founder, longtime Haines doctor Stan Jones, did not ply golf when he began imagining […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday July 10
The owners of the Palmer Project, the advanced mineral exploration project in the Chilkat Valley, say they’re partnering with the State of Alaska on the new industrial port in Haines.In a June 29 interview on podcast Mining Stock Daily, Vizsla Copper CEO Craig Parry said the state government is “looking at potential development of a […]
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This Week in History: Tidelands, trees and more
10 Years Ago A fundraiser July 21-22 at the Hammer Museum will give residents a chance to brighten their toolboxes. “Art and Hammer” is patterned after “Wine and Canvas” fundraisers in the Lower 48, said Kate Dickson, museum assistant. Participants will get a claw hammer, plus art supplies to decorate it, including acrylic paints. Finger […]
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Takshanuk withdraws permit after Warren family opposition
Takshanuk Watershed Council has withdrawn a permit application due to concern about proximity to a neighboring Native allotment. The local nonprofit applied on June 2 to permit three tent platforms and an outhouse at its Jones Point property. The organization planned to use the site for an educational program it said would “consist primarily of […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday June 19
The Haines borough is headed to Superior Court over a decision to exempt a local Episcopal church property from borough tax. The dispute surrounds a parcel at 1 Mile Haines Highway purchased in 2000 by St. Michael & All Angels’ Episcopal Church. After the purchase, the church converted a small structure on the property into […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday June 12
When international cruise ship terminal management company Global Ports Holding approached the Haines Borough about leasing its cruise ship dock, it touched off a local debate about cruise traffic that has yet to cool. Now another company, Huna Totem Corporation, has approached borough leaders expressing competing interest. Will Steinfeld reports this week on the outcome […]