For 50 years, about 2,000 Alaska Native military veterans have been without 160-acre land allotments that many other Alaska Natives obtained during the Vietnam War era. Soon that could change. More than 300,000 acres of land in the upper Lynn Canal could become available this month to Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans through a federal program signed into […]
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Tim Hockin and Melina Shields were married at their house across Mud Bay Saturday under tarps and umbrellas. Aaron Davidman officiated. Nicholas Szatkowski played pre-wedding music. Sarana Miller led the crowd in a processional singing of “Hallelujah” on harmonium. Guests watched from an outdoor chapel fashioned with hemlock slab pews. Family included Tim’s brothers Matt Hockin of Salt Lake City and Pete Hockin of Houlten, Wis. and their families. […]
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Author Nancy Pfeiffer and photographer Fredrick Norrsell of Palmer relaxed in Haines this week after spending the past 14 months rowing their open, 17-foot boat 1,700 miles around Southeast Alaska. “You’re looking at the two motors here,” Pfeiffer joked during an interview. After launching from here on summer Solstice 2021, the two professional guides made stops that included Gustavus, […]
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Author Nancy Pfeiffer and photographer Fredrick Norrsell of Palmer relaxed in Haines this week after spending the past 14 months rowing their open, 17-foot boat 1,700 miles around Southeast Alaska. “You’re looking at the two motors here,” Pfeiffer joked during an interview. After launching from here on summer solstice 2021, the two professional guides made […]
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Six candidates file for three assembly seats
It’s that time of year again: the bears are out at Chilkoot, and your neighbors are vying for your vote. Six people are running for three open Haines Borough Assembly seats. The top two vote-getters will serve three-year terms, and the candidate with the third most votes will fill a seat recently vacated by Caitie Rothbart (formerly […]
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Haines students Dylan Chapell, Brennan Palmieri, Mark Davis, Yzella Miramontes, and Hannah and Haley Boron attended the two-week Sitka Fine Arts Camp. In addition to watching counselors’ performances, they attended daily classes, which began at 8 a.m. The students performed and took concert band, jazz band and choir. Dylan took a stilts class and Brennan took an experimental photography class, in […]
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UA reps discuss carbon bank or logging on borough land
Representatives from the University of Alaska Land Management department visited Haines last week to consider how to earn a profit from the 12,000 acres they own in the borough. The university paused its planned timber sale in 2019 after tariff changes rendered the deal unprofitable. Now department liaison Kirsten Henning said they are weighing options […]
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Co-ed softball tourney returns after more than a decade
Little League may be over, but both fields on Sawmill Road will again see back-to-back games this weekend – now with adult players. From Aug. 12 to 14, three local and four visiting teams will face off in the first softball tournament Haines has hosted since 2010. The tournament will be a double elimination round […]
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CIA embarks on initiative to boost Tlingit language use
There are only three fluent Tlingit language speakers left in the Chilkat Valley — and the Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) is working hard to develop more. CIA in July secured a $900,000 federal grant for a three-year Tlingit language revitalization program that the tribe hopes will expand language use across the community by 20%. Tlingit is […]
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November bald eagle festival to return after two years off
The Alaska Bald Eagle Festival will again draw raptor enthusiasts to Haines this November, following a two-year break because of covid. “Everyone wants to get out and get moving,” American Bald Eagle Foundation executive director Cheryl McRoberts said. “A lot of our regulars who come every year had been asking (if we were) going to do it.” […]