Adeline Strong of Klukwan and Raymond Grenberg of Sitka were married April 7 at the Haines Court. Raymond’s brother Hunter Hildre and friend Robert Jennings were witnesses, and the couple’s children, Addison, six months, and Jayden, 5, gave them away. A formal wedding is planned in September. More than 75 people took part Saturday in […]
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Tongass is fastest regenerating forest
Eric Holle must not know that the Tongass National Forest is the fastest naturally regenerating conifer forest in the world. It’s because of its abundant rainfall, long summer daylight and good wind conditions for pollination. So Eric, why do deer migrate to the high and subalpine mountaintops in early summer through late fall? It’s to […]
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Bat hunters scan skies for science on little-studied species
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is on the hunt for citizen scientists to track bats in the Chilkat Valley. “Bats in Alaska are a total mystery,” said Tory Rhoads, wildlife biologist with ADF&G’s Threatened, Endangered & Diversity Program. From mid-April to October, Haines residents are invited to participate in an acoustic bat monitoring […]
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CIA seeks to resume chum channel work
A local tribe is hoping to resume chum salmon enhancement work in the Chilkat River drainage discontinued by the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association three or more years ago. A new fisheries department of the Chilkoot Indian Association is investigating funding to maintain manmade chum spawning channels, operate incubation boxes and to mark fish to check program […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]