Forty people representing at least a dozen nationalities came together to play soccer in Haines on Saturday. People who showed up to play said it’s common to find people pulling together a soccer game a couple of times a week in the summers, but Saturday’s crowd was the largest anyone remembered seeing. The game, scheduled […]
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Chilkat Valley Newsletter Saturday August 1
A couple on a walk in the Klehini River flats found an explosive they initially took to be trash when they picked it up. They called the Haines police, who contacted the Juneau police department’s bomb squad. A bomb technician from Juneau and another from the FBI came to town to investigate, then did a […]
Posted inLocal News, 2026 Governor's Race
A Q&A with Tom Begich who visited Haines during the Fair
Former Alaska State Sen. Tom Begich stopped in Haines this week as he campaigns back and forth across the state. The 65-year old Democrat currently leads the race to be the state’s next governor, according to a range of polls. While in Haines, he competed in the singer-songwriter contest at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. […]
Posted inLocal News, Public Safety
Discovery of explosives on Klehini flats triggers controlled response, plane crash scare
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 […]
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 […]
Posted inThis Week in History
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 […]