As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, the slide zones near 19 Mile and 23 Mile Haines Highway will continue to dump debris on the landscape below, local Department of Transportation foreman Matt Boron said this week. That’s why he wasn’t surprised when yet another slide episode triggered by torrential rains blocked traffic last […]
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Highway doesn’t need 55 mph standard
The Chilkat River/Haines Highway corridor is a destination, a place to go to, to spend time in, an attraction and asset to our community, not a place we need to coax folks to speed through at 55 mph. As long as the 55 mph standard is in place, we aren’t going to be doing this […]
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DOT: Snowplowing, sanding will be reduced
Due to budget cuts to the state Department of Transportation, motorists should expect to be driving in more snow this winter during evenings and weekends, and on generally slicker roads. Matt Boron, station foreman for DOT in Haines, said his crews aren’t authorized to work overtime this winter and will work strictly from a priority […]
Posted inBlotter
Police report
Monday, Nov. 19 A caller requested assistance contacting a relative who was on a fishing boat on the south side of Sullivan Island. She had not heard from the relative in about a week and was concerned because he did not make contact as planned. The U.S. Coast Guard located the fisherman and notified the […]
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Duly Noted
Nate and Michelle Webb were married at Sedgely Place in Greene, Maine, on Nov. 8. The 17th-century inn was filled with about 70 guests, including Haines residents Kathy Friedle, John Brower, and Jedediah Blum-Evitts. The newlyweds live in Fairbanks. Pam Randles was treated to a 70th birthday party, held at the Pioneer Bar on Dec. 9 and organized by daughter Amanda Randles and granddaughter Gina […]
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Publisher, community leader Ray Menaker dead at 93
Ray Menaker, an Ivy League-educated school teacher and Haines Borough Assembly member who founded or fostered a half-dozen civic institutions including launching the Chilkat Valley News, died Tuesday morning at his Haines Assisted Living apartment. He was 93. “He was a man for all seasons. He had a foot in everything,” said resident Georgia Haisler, who recalled […]
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State to release revised highway plan
After hitting a wall of public resistance with its initial document in 2013, the Alaska Department of Transportation is nearly ready to release its revised environmental assessment for the Haines Highway improvement project. The $125 million project, funded largely by federal money, would widen the roadway, straighten curves and address slide issues from Mile 3.5 […]
Posted inNews, Education, School Board
School board has “hefty expectations” for superintendent hire, Carlson says
The Haines Borough school board began discussion Tuesday on its hiring process for a new permanent superintendent. Former superintendent Tony Habra resigned in June after a contentious evaluation process. The past two permanent superintendents were only in the position for one year, with interim superintendent Rich Carlson filling in between them. Board president Anne Marie Palmieri said the […]
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Duly Noted
Adze Scott Hart was born to parents Ted Hart and Meghan Elliott on Sept. 10 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital. He weighed seven pounds and measured 21 inches. Hart’s mother Harriett Brouillette, brother James Hart and cousin Zach James were in the waiting room during the birth. The grandparents are Harriett, Glen Brouillette, Joan Elliott […]
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Police Blotter
Monday, Jan. 24 A caller requested extra patrols of their Fourth Avenue apartment complex after an early-morning knock on their door. State road crews were advised of a boulder in the road at 6 Mile Lutak. An officer responded to a call that a parked vehicle slid down a hill and hit another car on Major […]