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Valley teams take 3 of 4 Gold Medal crowns
Teams from the Chilkat Valley captured three of four titles at last week’s Juneau Lions Club 71st Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. With a combined record of 11-0, the squads made what is possibly the best showing ever by local teams in the tournament’s history. Jenny Lyn Smith coached elementary school basketball in Haines for 18 […]
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Jemma Joy Carter was born to Lori and Mike Carter at 8:32 a.m. on March 22 at Bartlett Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz. and measured 20.5 inches. Lori’s mother Joyce Webster from Parsons, Kansas was there to meet her new granddaughter and will be here to help the family for a few weeks. […]
Valley teams winning early at Medal tourney
At press time Wednesday, teams from the Chilkat Valley were undefeated after five games at Juneau’s Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. The Haines women’s team, defending tournament champions, beat Hoonah, 62-55, in an opening-round match-up Tuesday. They’ll play Yakutat at 6 p.m. Thursday. Yakutat has its top players back from a 2014 championship team. The local […]
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Tom True, 67, died in Sitka on Tuesday of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). True worked 30 years as an immigration inspector and customs agent at the U.S. border station. A full obituary will appear in next week’s CVN. Lucille Irene Rose Lloyd was born to Joshua and Krystal Lloyd at 7:16 a.m. on March 16 […]
Plumbing the literary depths of ice-fishing
I wasn’t born a fisherman, but in Alaska it’s easy to become one. I drove up to Mosquito Lake Saturday to join an ice-fishing outing organized by the state Department of Fish and Game. Sport fish biologist Rich Chapell had pre-drilled six holes in the lake and I wandered off to one of them after […]
Stuart, Hotch win valley’s bees
After 10 rounds, fourth-grader Willa Stuart took the top prize at the Haines School Spelling Bee Friday, correctly spelling “concussion” to qualify for the state bee in Anchorage. Six spellers started the bee. With two gone by the second round, the top four spellers – Stuart, Logan Borcik, Mackenzy Dryden and Anica Tipkemper – battled […]
Trying to save every last Chilkat king salmon
Biologists are considering unprecedented fishing restrictions this summer to protect a feeble return of king salmon to Chilkat River estuaries. Options include closing sportfishing in Lynn Canal, prohibiting commercial fishing at night, and restricting days of the week that in-river subsistence fishermen can set out nets. The Department of Fish and Game is expected to issue a season […]
Match to double donations
Chilkat Valley Community Foundation, an affiliate of The Alaska Community Foundation, is kicking off its 2020 Matching Funds Campaign, a four-year effort to create, support and sustain local philanthropy in Haines and Klukwan. Rasmuson Foundation has committed up to $185,000 in matching funds to the local foundation as part of its $5 million grant to The […]
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Eden Serene Del Prete was born Jan. 6 at Bartlett Regional Hospital to Shannon and Andrew Del Prete. She and weighed 7 lbs., 3 oz. and measured 19.25 inches. She joins brothers Garrison, 9, Caedmon, 6 and Porter, 3. Aunt Lorrie Williams of Medford, Ore. was there to help before grandmother Joyce Del Prete arrived […]