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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Posted inLetters to the Editor
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 […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
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 […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
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 […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
Jackie Haddock-Swift and Scott Brewington returned from their Las Vegas honeymoon, during which they stayed at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, met a drug dealer on Fremont Street, and did a lot of walking. Haddock-Swift spent a day at the spa. To keep themselves from gambling, she said they attended shows, including the Carrot Top comedy show, “Criss Angel MAGICjam,” […]
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Popely to lobby for Haines for remainder of 2021
Lobbyist Ted Popely will represent the Haines Borough through the end of the year for $48,000. In keeping with a Government Affairs and Services (GAS) Committee recommendation from last week, the full Haines Borough Assembly voted 5-1 at a March 9 meeting to hire Popely. Assembly member Caitie Kirby was the sole “no” vote. During GAS Committee discussion, Kirby […]
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Business Briefs
Mediation could cost $50,000 A $780,200 settlement offer from Pacific Pile & Marine was rejected by the Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday. Instead the group voted to enter non-binding mediation. The company originally sought $1.1 million last summer in additional funds for increased labor time and wear on its equipment, claiming the ocean floor was harder than described […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This Week in History
Archive news from 50, 25 and 10 years ago. Sept. 11 1967 Secretary of State Keith Miller has announced details for an Oct. 3 borough election in Haines. The election was called following the filing of a public petition asking that the question of voluntary incorporating a borough in the Haines area be put to […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This week in history
‘Alvin’ finds a friend Feb. 1, 1971 Who finds a bear cub wandering around in the snow in January? Who, indeed, but Mary and George Meacock. “It’s the first time in the 44 years I’ve been in Alaska that I’ve seen such a thing, “ said George. “I looked out the window,” said Mary, “and […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This week in history
Sept. 8 1969 The Haines municipal water system will be inspected tomorrow when two state officials will come to town to try to determine what caused the bacteria to rise from a normal of 3 to a recent count of 38. According to Councilman Henry Hartmann, John Scribner, state sanitary engineer, and William G. Goodman, […]