Roughly 580 Haines residents received the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last weekend in a two-day push by the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). To date, a total of roughly 900 in the community have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a rate of approximately 40%. The health center […]
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Legislative intern boards flight despite testing positive for COVID-19
Multiple residents close contacts, must quarantine A University of Alaska student intern passing through Haines boarded an Alaska Seaplanes flight last week, despite testing positive for the COVID-19 virus, forcing nine other passengers into quarantine as close contacts. The 21-year-old intern was fired as a result. Interim borough manager Alekka Fullerton said the student drove […]
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Nora Grace Taylor was born on Dec. 10 in Hong Kong to Barry Taylor and Fransiska Sukarni. Nora was 8 pounds 4 ounces. Fransiska is from Sumatra, Indonesia and Barry is a captain for Atlas Air. When Barry isn’t flying cargo around the world he splits his time between Haines and Cape Coral, Florida. Paternal […]
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This week in history
Archive news from 50, 25, and 10 years ago November 11, 1967 Has anyone lived in Southeastern Alaska longer than Jim Fox? Probably not, for he was born in southeast Alaska almost a hundred years ago and has lived here continuously since. He is southeast Alaska’s oldest social security beneficiary. Since there were no records […]
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New magistrate sworn in
A new magistrate judge was sworn in Monday morning at the Haines courthouse. Kila Orion Hughes-Knowles, 32, is taking over following the Dec. 31 retirement of judge Linn Asper. Hughes-Knowles, who grew up in Sitka before attending law school in Virginia and clerking for a Fairbanks superior court judge, will preside over cases in Skagway, […]
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First responders, healthcare workers, elders receive first COVID-19 vaccines in Haines
In the past week, more than 100 Chilkat Valley residents received the first of two shots required for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. On Friday, Dec. 18 at 10 a.m., roughly 100 doses of the vaccine arrived on an Allen Marine boat chartered by the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) after weather prevented the vaccine from […]
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2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: “I don’t want to relive this year, nor should anyone else.” But tradition dictates an annual recap, which if left unwritten, would end my positive relationship with CVN bookkeeper Jane Pascoe. Plus, the newspaper is a weekly black hole of white space […]
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Ten Klukwan School students and chaperones Cynthia and John McFeeters, Carson Buck and Katherine Hotch recently returned from a Juneau ski trip. The students, ranging from second to twelfth-graders, participated in morning lessons and enjoyed free time skiing in the afternoons. Senior Danielle Dallmann said learning to ski was easier than expected. The group also went ice-skating at Treadwell Ice Arena, and visited the Juneau-Douglas City […]
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Natural disaster puts community at heightened risk of COVID-19 spread
Officials are holding their breath while they wait to see what happens with COVID-19 in Haines in the wake of widespread flooding and landslides that have displaced at least 50 residents and brought a large number of volunteers and emergency workers into the community in the past week. “I don’t know how we’re going to […]
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Geoscientists remain in town to monitor landscape as rain continues
The geoscientists continued to get a more refined understanding of slope instabilities Tuesday and Wednesday as clear weather allowed them to view mountains from the skies. On Wednesday they observed areas near Klukwan and along the Haines Highway. On Tuesday, they collected enough data to place various areas in landslide risk categories. The public has submitted hundreds […]