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Track team kicks off first meet in Juneau
The Haines High School track team got a running start to their season in Juneau last weekend and now is gearing up for a home meet. Freshman Mark Davis, who coach Pete Degen said just recently learned how to hurdle, placed fifth in the 300-meter hurdles and achieved a personal record of 50.02 seconds. “It’s […]
Clarifying my chinook comment
In last week’s CVN article, “Board asks Klukwan to pull nets during king salmon peak,” I was shocked to read my quote from the April 26 Upper Lynn Canal Fish & Game Advisory Council (ULCAC) meeting: “What is the value of your tradition opposed to the value of spawning Chinook mortality?” So shocked, in fact, that I went to […]
Ballers played for a playground
Klukwan School would like to thank the many community members who joined us to “play for a playground” at our three on three basketball tournament. It was great to have our basketball regulars along with some new faces playing together in the Klukwan gym. Thanks also for the generosity of Ripinsky Roasters/Mountain Market, who donated Captain Healy Espresso Blend […]
Tier 3 is a political tool
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]