Lila Chip Lende was born to Christian Lende and Ella Shepherd of Margaret River, Western Australia, on Jan. 9. Lila weighed 7.5 lbs. and measured 20 inches. Chip and Heather Lende of Haines are grandparents. Heather said Lila’s aunts, uncles and seven Haines and Juneau cousins are thrilled. Chip and Heather will meet Lila on […]
Search results
Posted inNews
State assistance losses affect 101 residents
One hundred and one blind or disabled residents in Haines and Klukwan stand to lose an average of $224 each month in state cash assistance due to an incorrect formula the state has been using to calculate the benefits since 1983. The Adult Public Assistance Program (APA) is money distributed monthly by the state’s Department of Health […]
Posted inNews
Residents felt the heat in 2019
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s deep budget cut proposals and the ensuing battle for ferries, education, community assistance, public radio and a slew of other services dominated headlines this year. The town celebrated the Haines Glacier Bears cross country team after it won the state championship in October. The debate over borough-wide policing persisted another year. The […]
Posted inNews
Giving Tuesday benefits local nonprofits
Nine nonprofits reaped more than $16,000 in donations on Tuesday, December 3. Giving Tuesday, defined as a “global generosity movement” on its official website, was created in 2012 following Black Friday and Cyber Monday with the mission to build a more generous world. To amplify donors’ generosity, Facebook signed on to match up to $7 […]
Posted inNews
Dye study underway at Palmer Project
The results of the groundwater tracer dye study Constantine Metal Resources began conducting last month are expected to be released at the end of February, spokesperson Liz Cornejo said last week. Those results track groundwater movement downhill from the discharge area and will inform Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s decision on Constantine’s waste management permit. […]
Posted inNews, Alaska Marine Highway System
Tazlina to sail again, winter travel remains grim
Last week, some Haines residents learned from Facebook that ferry service would increase from one sailing a week to three with the addition of the Tazlina. “As of this morning, it has been determined that they are going to pull the M/V Tazlina out of lay-up status, and resume regular runs back and forth from […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Thanks to doctors for speaking up
I want to thank our local doctors for bringing up the potential health-related effects of a large-scale mine on our community. The question is not whether or not miners are good people, of course they are. The question is whether or not a mine the size and scale of Constantine is the best choice forward […]
Posted inNews
HAL donates veterans building
The Haines Assisted Living board of directors donated the Soboleff-McRae Veteran’s Village to Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. The building was constructed in 2015 after the Alaska Legislature appropriated $6 million for the job, and a $650,000 donation from the late Lucy Harrell helped complete the first floor. It’s home to 11 apartments available for […]
Posted inNews
Tlingit language class back at Sheldon
In a nod to Native American Heritage Month, Tlingit elder and traditional practitioner Marsha Hotch will teach her second annual (in recent history) Tlingit language course at the Haines Sheldon Museum. The course will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Nov. 5 to Nov. 26, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. “Last time we had community members […]
Posted inNews
150-year-old Tlingit maps celebrated
In 2007, when cartographer John Cloud was cataloging more than 7,000 maps at the National Archives in Washington D.C., he came across two that immediately chilled him. “In fifteen minutes, I found two different maps done by Alaska Natives working cooperatively with the Coast Survey (present day NOAA) in the nineteenth century, and nobody knew […]