Policing outside of the townsite could be on the October ballot once again, one year after Mud Bay, Lutak and Haines Highway voters rejected raising property taxes to create a separate police service area in their neighborhoods. On July 8, the borough’s Public Safety Commission voted 2-1 to recommend the assembly introduce an ordinance that would add […]
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Spiritual ‘water blessing’ honors life of young Haines man
On June 26, a year to the hour of the death of 23-year-old Mario Julian Benassi, more than 60 out-of-town visitors, Alaska Natives from Chilkoot Indian Association and Klukwan, and indigenous South American spiritual leaders joined along the confluence of the Chilkat River and the inlet for a water blessing. Aquasension, the three-day festival organized by the father, […]
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Mining threatens life in Alaska
Dear Editor of the Chilkat Valley News: From 1945 to 1950 I lived in Haines, Alaska. My father, Kenneth F. Fox was pastor of the Haines and Klukwan Presbyterian Churches. A memory is of my father seeing the fishing boats arriving, and going to the dock to buy fish for our family to eat. It was delicious […]
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Reporting was premature
In last week’s “Three takeaways from Constantine preliminary economic assessment” a mood of assuredness about the future potential for a mine’s success seemed to lie in subtext .The number of unknown factors, however, prohibits any projection of mine-life, profitability, and safety of the watershed that isn’t enormously speculative. The PEA, for example, has not been […]
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Martin’s modern Tlingit artwork shines at the Haines Sheldon Museum
The Haines Sheldon Museum has received a $1,000 Art Acquisition Fund Award from Museums Alaska and the Rasmuson Foundation to acquire “Raven stealing the light,” an engraved silver bracelet by Native artist and Haines resident Rob Martin. Martin said he dreamed of the design for this bracelet after reading Tlingit stories to his daughter. “I […]
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Hart travels to Hawaii to honor shared Native history
James Hart, 29, recently returned from Honolulu, Hawaii, where about 75 Native Alaskans, some in a canoe from Yakutat, gathered with Native Hawaiians for the Ho’oilina celebration, to honor their shared history. Hart said the celebration was about bringing people together, “to retell the stories of our Hawaiian history.” Ho’oilina means “legacy.” Tlingit Elder and Klukwan Native […]
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After 43 years, Frog House at.oow returns
The Alaska State Museum returned to Klukwan four Frog House posts and a replica of the clan’s house screen, treasured cultural artifacts of one of the village’s most powerful clans. Held in trust and displayed prominently at the state museum for more than 30 years, the Frog House treasures will now be preserved in the Jilkaat Kwaan […]
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Duly Noted
Glitz and glamour came to Haines in the form of a magazine photo shoot earlier this fall for ferry terminal employees Fuzzy von Stauffenberg and Joanne Waterman, who appear as models in the October issue of Lands’ End Business Outfitters catalog. The Lands’ End photo crew traveled on the Malaspina around the upper Lynn Canal promoting their new Outrigger jacket, […]
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Duly Noted
Doris Ward is home from a month of travel that included family visiting and old friends. She traveled to Tulsa, Okla. to see sister, Janie Owen, and Janie’s daughter and grandchildren. The fall temperatures were in the 80s, rising one day to 91, and Doris soaked up the sunshine on Janie’s patio. From Tulsa, Doris returned to Seattle […]