The Mayor position is particularly important as the Mayor appoints committee members and has a strong role, voice, and vote on the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Advisory Council. Tom believes in working collaboratively with local tribal organizations and prefers to see a diversity of representation on local committees and commissions. I have found that even when we have different […]
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Jemma Joy Carter was born to Lori and Mike Carter at 8:32 a.m. on March 22 at Bartlett Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz. and measured 20.5 inches. Lori’s mother Joyce Webster from Parsons, Kansas was there to meet her new granddaughter and will be here to help the family for a few weeks. The family has been able to Facetime […]
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Morphet, Hill square off in mayoral race
This election season, there are two candidates running for Mayor, Tom Morphet and Jan Hill. The two candidates have deep roots in the community and have served Haines in myriad ways. While both Morphet and Hill have expressed that they want the best for the community, their visions and priorities diverge. CVN interviewed the two candidates separately […]
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Concerns about undue noise dominate Mosquito Lake forum
Concerns about undue noise drew the strongest interest from viewers during the second public candidate forum, held in the upper valley Sunday night. All five assembly candidates and one mayoral candidate faced questions from the audience and from host Mike Denker on topics including natural resources, taxes and undue noise at the Four Winds Resource […]
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Planning commission candidate profiles
For the first time in Haines’ history, the planning commission will be elected by the people instead of appointed by the Mayor. Residents voted on the ballot proposition for an elected planning commission during a special election in June, where it passed 445 to 248, a 64% margin. Despite concerns that not enough people will run […]
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Artist James Hart grows into new space as part of Tlingit art revival
At his small art studio on a recent weekday afternoon, 33-year-old Haines artist James Hart was hard at work perfecting a curve on a single pencil line on a piece of tracing paper. Nobody else was in view in Dalton City, where he just rented a studio space. He had only his dog and Bluetooth […]
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Mixed decision in Palmer Project appeal
The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation made what environmental and tribal groups called a “mixed” decision on an appeal about a wastewater permit for a mining exploration project 35 miles north of Haines. The administrative appeal decision on the Palmer Project upholds Constantine Metals’ permit to discharge water into the area above the Klehini River, […]
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Duly Noted – August 10
Ron Owens held a presentation on the physiological benefits of laughing at the end of July during a visit with friend Neil Einsbruch. Owens is a bereavement counselor in New Jersey, and met Einsbruch as his teacher in seventh-grade music. The two also shared a passion for magic — Owens worked as a magician at […]
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State grants amended permit to Palmer Project despite concerns
The state Department of Natural Resources granted an expanded permit to Constantine Metals for seismic and other work in a site below the Palmer Project that it says could be used for tailings storage despite opposition from Klukwan and environmentalists. The Palmer Project is a proposed copper, zinc and gold mine in the mountains above Glacier Creek, […]
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For Chilkoot tribe, bill in U.S. congress could help rectify historic oversight
Harriet Brouillette remembers sitting around the kitchen table as a child in the late 1960s and early 1970s trying to understand her parents’ discussions about the complicated topic of land claims. At the time, Natives around the state, including the Chilkoot Indians of Haines, were focused on how they would be compensated for land that […]