James Boon Ackerman was born Nov. 19 at Anchorage’s Alaska Native Medical Center to parents Sue and Tim Ackerman. James weighed seven pounds and nine ounces, and measured 20 inches. Grandparents are Tim Sr. and April Ackerman, and Miguel and Wanpen Ordonez. James has a 16-month-old brother, Timothy Mikael “JJ.” Odis and Debby Ganey are moving back to Klukwan to pastor at the Assembly of God Church. The Ganeys served […]
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Duly Noted
Haines Sportsman’s Association recently awarded influential members with the lifetime membership honor. Association’s President Russ Byerly said, “The lifetime Memberships are given to sportsmen and sportswomen who exhibit outstanding leadership and commitment to responsible hunting and fishing opportunities, as well as firearms education and the shooting sports in the greater Haines area.” Recognized were: George […]
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Lani Hotch’s robes part of Native textile exhibit at Alaska State museum
Master weaver and Klukwan resident Lani Hotch helped curate a new exhibit at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau that traces the history of Northwest Coast textile arts. The exhibit, “The Spirit Wraps Around You: Northern Northwest Coast Native Textiles,” features historical and contemporary Chilkat and Ravenstail robes. Only 12 of the historical Ravenstail robes are known […]
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U.S. Senators renew push for landless tribe settlement
Alaska’s U.S. Senators are planning to reintroduce legislation that would allow Native Alaskans in Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA). These five tribes weren’t allowed to do so when ANCSA was originally passed. U.S. Congressman Don Young […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This week in history
Archive news from 50, 25, and 10 years ago , 2007 Students and community members will have to wait until spring to use the new Klukwan School gymnasium because there isn’t enough water pressure for the new sprinkler system to function properly. Ruth Ryan, head teacher at Klukwan School said that the lack of water pressure had prevented workers […]
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SEARHC halts Johnson & Johnson vaccinations
The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) has temporarily paused use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Haines and other consortium communities, in accordance with a Tuesday recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The organizations recommended the pause while they review data associated with six […]
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Duly Noted
The Olen Nash Memorial Big Air Competition was held on Sunday, Apr. 11 at 36 Mile Haines Highway. Organizers were middle and high school students Leo Wald, Arik Miller, Dalton Henry, Griffin Culbeck, Hayden Jimenez and Willow Oakley. Arik, Willow, Dalton, and Leo camped out on Friday night and worked all day Saturday to build […]
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Don’t boondoggle our valley
Constantine has yet to hold a community meeting in either Haines or Klukwan showing the ultimate buildout plans for the Palmer Project. Therefore they, and anyone complicit in pushing forward with plans to fund and/or accommodate the project within the Chilkat headwaters, are operating in bad faith with the people in these downstream communities. According to the […]
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Daniel Johnston is back in Haines after a five-month trip that included two-month stays in India and Sri Lanka. He kicked off his trip with a visit to Seattle, where he visited fellow Glacier Point guide Sam Edwards and Sam’s mom Mary. In India, Johnston and girlfriend Erin Dowden of Skagway visited cave temples and ruins, the Taj Mahal, and the […]
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Friends at the Pioneers of Alaska’s Sunday meeting sang “Happy Birthday” to Layton A. Bennett in anticipation of his 93rd birthday Thursday, April 12. Wife Lou is organizing a family party with sons Lynn Bennett of Juneau and Eric Bennett of Bellevue, Wash. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the fall 2011 […]