Adze Scott Hart was born to parents Ted Hart and Meghan Elliott on Sept. 10 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital. He weighed seven pounds and measured 21 inches. Hart’s mother Harriett Brouillette, brother James Hart and cousin Zach James were in the waiting room during the birth. The grandparents are Harriett, Glen Brouillette, Joan Elliott and Scott Schneider. The couple returned to Haines on Sunday. “Mountain Mamas Gone Mad” […]
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Duly Noted
Kai Dixon moved from Haines back to Wasilla with his family at the end of summer 2020 and has transitioned his high school athletic career in grand fashion. Kai is one of the team captains and on the starting front line for the hockey team Colony Knights, and scored a natural hat trick in his first […]
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Kai Dixon moved from Haines back to Wasilla with his family at the end of summer 2020 and has transitioned his high school athletic career in grand fashion. Kai is one of the team captains and on the starting front line for the hockey team Colony Knights, and scored a natural hat trick in his […]
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Duly Noted
Aaliyah Michelle Houghton-Bynum was born on Jan. 16 in Anchorage to Karlie Spud and George Houghton-Bynum of Klukwan. She was 5 pounds 9 ounces and 18 inches long. Her Tlingit name is K’aanakéek Tláa after her great-great-great grandmother and her Cup’ig name is Panigkiun after her great grandmother. Local grandparents are Charlie and Joanne Spud […]
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Haines COVID-19 vaccination rate nears 40 percent
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 […]