I think it’s obvious by now that Tier 3 is not about saving salmon, it’s about stopping the resource development of a mine and timber sale in the Haines State Forest Resource Management Area. There is no meaningful example that clear-cutting or mining has ever had a negative impact on Southeast salmon. Only from commercial […]
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Dan Henry gives book talk at Chilkat Center
After 32 years of work, Dan Henry presented his book “Across the Shaman’s River” about John Muir, Tlingit history and how the two are connected at the Chilkat Center Tuesday. Henry spent two and a half hours telling stories from the book to a full audience of Haines residents and visitors from the Chilkoot Indian […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Thanks for easing our bumps in the road
I wish to express my thanks to all the compassionate, caring people in Haines and Klukwan. In the past nine months when my wife Denise was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had a successful operation and recovery, and then I was recently diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer recently. With my surgery complete and future […]
Posted inNews, Timber
Public packs assembly chambers during timber sale meeting
The Haines Borough Assembly heard from more than 40 people Tuesday about the University of Alaska’s proposed 13,000-acre timber sale, but more questions were raised than answered. Assembly member Heather Lende said until the university sends a representative to Haines, the community is in the dark. “I think that even by announcing this sale in the media […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
Coral Lani Jacobson and Kyle Greenhaulgh welcomed son Dean Lees on March 26. Grandma Jen Reid was there for the birth. “He is such a calm and happy baby and we are so madly in love with him,” she said. Dean weighed 10 pounds, 1 ounce and was 22 inches long. The Haines Packing Company […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
Coral Lani Jacobson and Kyle Greenhaulgh welcomed son Dean Lees on March 26. Grandma Jen Reid was there for the birth. “He is such a calm and happy baby and we are so madly in love with him,” she said. Dean weighed 10 pounds, 1 ounce and was 22 inches long. The Haines Packing Company […]
Posted inNews, Haines Borough
Assembly again rejects state money for policing
The Haines Borough Assembly this week rejected for the second time an offer from the state Department of Public Safety to take $25,000 in exchange for accepting police responsibility across the borough. Borough manager Debra Schnabel reintroduced the contract that would require the borough to fund borough-wide policing for the one-time payment. “From my perspective it seems less and […]
Posted inNews, Haines Borough
Assembly again rejects state money for policing
The Haines Borough Assembly this week rejected for the second time an offer from the state Department of Public Safety to take $25,000 in exchange for accepting police responsibility across the borough. Borough manager Debra Schnabel reintroduced the contract that would require the borough to fund borough-wide policing for the one-time payment. “From my perspective it seems less and […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Seeing is believing, check your facts
Since the B.C. Mount Polley mine accident is being used as the basis to stop all mining, here and in Canada, here are the facts. Gold and copper were discovered along the shores of Polley Lake in eastern B.C. in the late 1800s. The lake is a narrow, shallow-water trout lake. The miners raised its […]