Kat and Ted Cheney welcomed a fifth member of their family, baby boy Taylor, on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital. Taylor was born at 4:22 p.m. He weighed six pounds, six ounces and measured 19 inches. Call Lexie DeWitt to get on a schedule for meal deliveries. Felix Anser Sylvan Benassi was […]
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By Torrey Larson Chauncey Stigen and Nicole Comer were married last weekend in Brookshire, Texas. The ceremony was held on a 22-acre ranch outside of Houston. Immediate family of Chauncey’s in attendance included sister Caity-Ann Stigen, brothers Chris Stigen and Chad Stigen. Chad’s wife Christina and their daughter Isabella were on hand, as were Chauncey’s […]
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Police report
Sunday, May 24 A Mathias Avenue resident reported a suspicious vehicle parked near her home. An officer was advised and said the vehicle had already been checked; it was inoperable and had been parked in the location for some time. A Young Road resident reported a vehicle in the ditch. The caller said it appeared […]
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Weather station is installed on Mount Ripinsky
The Haines Borough’s first avalanche-oriented weather station is a couple weeks from going online. About 10 people climbed up Mount Ripinsky Saturday to assemble the solar-power station equipped with a rain gauge, anemometer and thermometer with an antenna setup to transmit information to the Haines Avalanche Information Center, where it is posted on the organization’s website. At […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]