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Assembly wants to rethink sales tax exemptions for nonprofits
How should the Haines Borough Assembly decide which nonprofit groups get breaks on paying Haines’ sales tax? That’s what the assembly members want to know. Consequently, they unanimously decided Tuesday to have the assembly’s finance committee meet Sept. 29 to start putting together written criteria on granting local and out-of-state nonprofit organizations exemptions on paying the 5.5 […]
Hunter training and archery instruction courses offered
Kirk Lingofelt, statewide hunter education coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will lead a hunter training program field day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the shooting range on Mud Bay Road. Students who have successfully completed the online portion of the $15 hunter education course through the Alaska Hunter […]
Tlingit apps combine tradition and technology
The Sealaska Heritage Institute developed and released two free apps last week to help people learn the Tlingit language. According to a SHI press release, the “Learning Tlingit” app includes more than 300 Tlingit words, phrases, letters and sounds and audio from native speakers, language learners and linguists. The app also includes a searchable index, […]
Duly Noted
An adorable Canadian visitor was in Haines earlier this month. Randy Miner discovered a ground squirrel under his welding shop garage at Fort Seward. He caught it with a live trap using carrots and peanut butter. Judy Heinmiller fed the caged rodent “fresh local organic vegetables” and dubbed it TR for “the rodent.” She contacted […]
Duly Noted
Kimberly Chambers, 28, died Monday following an accident. A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday in Champagne, Y.T. The mobile mammography van will be in Haines Saturday as well as Monday through Wednesday. The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium’s Wisewoman Women’s Health Program in partnership with the Breast Cancer Detection Center is bringing […]
Only 1 in 10 cast votes in primary
Only about one in every 10 registered Haines voters turned out to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s statewide primary election, but those who did reflected trends supporting incumbents Republican Don Young for U.S. Representative and Republican Lisa Murkowski for U.S. Senator. About 82 percent of voters casting a Republican ballot chose Murkowski, while 75 percent […]
Police report
Monday, Dec. 10 A parent called to report a juvenile living at Dusty Trails apartments had run away. Police found the youth, who was returned home. A person came to the station to report Young Road was very slick. Borough road crews were notified. Police assisted state troopers with a two-vehicle accident at 7 Mile […]
Police Report
Monday, April 27 A Mud Bay Road resident reported a $600 chainsaw had been stolen from the back of his vehicle sometime during the last few days. Police initiated a case. A resident living in the area of Third Avenue and Union Street reported someone burning plastics. A fireman responded, located the burn barrel and […]
Duly Noted
Former resident Jessie Babette Miller of San Francisco said she was so surprised to win the Southeast Alaska State Fair’s drawing for a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, she was hardly able to move when her name was called Sunday. “It’s still overwhelming. I still can’t believe it,” she said. The truck will replace her Volkswagen […]