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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Cheaper internet in the works
Alaska Power and Telephone customers will soon get faster Internet speeds and be able to transfer more data, thanks to the fiber optic line that runs from Juneau to Skagway and Haines. AP&T installed the 86-mile undersea cable last fall with the help from the HOS Silver Arrow. The Lynn Canal Fiber project had been in the […]
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Lende, Hotch win awards from governor
Two longtime Haines and Klukwan leaders are recipients of the 2017 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. Heather Lende won a “Distinguished Service to the Humanities” award, one of three given out each year. Lani Hotch of Klukwan will receive the “Arts Business Leadership” award. Lende knew she was nominated, she said, but didn’t expect to win. “It’s […]
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Year in Review: Art, public projects dominated Haines news
Advances in the arts and public projects marked much of the news in 2016, and combined, for some novel exchanges. At a Sept. 8 Haines Borough Planning Commission meeting dominated by critics of the proposed harbor expansion project, commission chair Rob Goldberg suggested a 630-foot steel wall breakwater planned for Portage Cove might someday be an attraction. […]
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Molly Frances Dorn was born Dec. 9 at Bartlett Regional Hospital to parents Eliza and Dr. Justin Dorn. She weighed 6 lbs., 15 oz. and measured 29 inches. Grandparents include Jim Dorn and Sarah Olsen of Juneau, Marty Early of Lancaster, Pa., and Chip and Heather Lende of Haines. Aunt J.J. and uncle Bryan Hinderberger […]
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Becky’s Place: Nonprofit offers shelter to abused
Jackie Mazeikas remembers walking around Haines, questioning people about something nobody here wanted to talk about. Women were being assaulted and sexually abused by husbands, boyfriends and fathers who lived and worked and shopped here, who walked around smiling and laughing; their friends and neighbors unaware of what went on at home. The town, she […]
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Police Report
Monday, Feb. 3 An anonymous caller reported a man sought to buy narcotics from him. Officers were advised. A caller reported a person driving an ATV recklessly in the Young Road area. Police located a 15-year-old boy operating an ATV in the area and conducted a traffic stop. The boy’s mother was notified. Officers provided […]