One hundred and ten years ago this summer, Haines was surrounded by fire. After a few dry months in the spring of 1916, on July 3rd, a fire broke out on the edge of town. Reports are mixed about who or where it started, but the blaze quickly became an inferno that scorched the entire […]
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Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday August 14
It’s election season. There’s a statewide primary on Tuesday, and here in the Chilkat Valley the October ballot is starting to take shape. As current Mayor Tom Morphet steps down a race is taking shape between at least two former mayors, Doug Olerud and Jan Hill. If no one else files, it would be a […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This Week in History: school standards, registration and golf
20 years ago: Haines and Klukwan schools were among 304 statewide that met adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The state Department of Education announced the results this month, along with a list of the 193 schools that failed to demonstrate adequate proficiency. Haines students have exceeded math […]
Posted inBlotter
Police Blotter: Aug. 2 – Aug. 8
Sunday, August 2 A citizen turned in a found debit card on the Haines Highway. The owner was contacted and picked up the card. A caller at 31.5 mile on the Haines Highway requested information and updates about wildfires. A caller on FAA road reported a person tried to shoot a bear in front of […]
Posted inLocal News, Health
Rural Health Transformation Program advances Haines projects
The Haines Borough and Chilkoot Indian Association are still in the running for a share of Alaska’s quarter-billion dollar Rural Health Transformation fund this year. The fund was created last summer by the federal tax and spending bill often referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill. The legislation made major cuts to Medicaid but […]
Posted inCommentary
The ‘90-Day Native’ food challenge
Mary Goddard has been eating wild and foraged foods her whole life. Last summer, however, she took it to another level, creating the “90-Day Native” challenge for herself — a time in which she only ate traditional Alaska Native foods. Deer? Yes. Berries? Yes. Dryfish? Yes. Nettles? Yes. That tomato grown in a local garden? […]
Posted inLocal News, Public Safety
Wildfire at Chilkat Lake makes fourth for Chilkat Valley this year
Just as a burn permit ban came into effect on Wednesday morning, firefighters got a call about a wildfire near Chilkat Lake. Fire Chief Zak Overmyer said four people from the Haines volunteer fire department, one from the Klehini Valley volunteer fire department and the state wildlife trooper responded to a fire that was about […]
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Posted inObituaries
Marilyn Wilson remembered as “vault of knowledge and history”
Longtime Chilkat Valley resident Marilyn Wilson died June 26. She would have been 88 this month. Wilson was born Aug. 3, 1938, in Juneau to Norwegian mother Nancy Burke and Lingít father Ben Wright of Angoon. Marilyn was Teikweidí, brought in by the late Esther Shea of Ketchikan, and her Tlingit name was Gush gu […]