Fred Shields and Greg Horner performed the song “Mr. Blue” at Sunday’s Northern Lights Showcase, a tribute to former resident DeWayne Blackwell, who penned the pop hit. As sung by The Fleetwoods, the song reached #1 on Billboard’s Top 100 list in November 1959, and was subsequently recorded by Frankie Avalon, Bob Dylan, and Garth […]
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King salmon rules tighten
Chilkat Inlet closed to July 16 Department of Fish and Game biologists this week outlined new restrictions on area fisheries aimed to protect the Chilkat king salmon return, including closing Chilkat Inlet to subsistence fishing through July 15. Sport fishing in Chilkat Inlet also will be closed through July 15, with a daily bag limit […]
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Chilkats seek top protection for river
The Chilkat Indian Village is pursuing protections for the Chilkat River that would prohibit activities affecting the river’s water quality. The village submitted a proposal to the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Advisory Council last week requesting the river be designated as an Outstanding National Resource Water, which protects waters of exceptional recreational, environmental or ecological significance […]
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Ailment a mystery; family seeks help
Dakota Strong, a 19-year-old local man, can’t hold down food. Mother Deanna Strong said after nine months of unsuccessful treatment by a number of doctors, she’ll be taking her son to Anchorage to see a gastroenterologist. She’s hoping to raise $3,000 for the trip through the crowd-sourcing site http://www.gofundme.com. Strong said her son has lost 100 […]
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Three teams slated to play Gold Medal
The Gold Medal Basketball Tournament starts Sunday, March 15, at Juneau-Douglas High School and features three Chilkat Valley teams. The Klukwan Chilkats open the tournament 10 a.m. Sunday against Juneau’s Filco in the “C” bracket, followed by the 11:30 a.m. Haines Merchants’ “B” bracket game against Kake. There are eight teams in each of the two brackets. […]
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Did TV show exaggerate rarity, cash value of artworks? s
“Antiques Roadshow” overestimated the value and the rarity of two Tlingit masks that reportedly originated in the Chilkat Valley, according to experts in Haines and Juneau. “This is really, really remarkable material. These are among the most rare objects in North America,” appraiser Ted Trotta told a TV audience about two masks that were brought […]
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Haines High grad pens grim account of life on streets
A 1990 Haines High School graduate who spent three years as a homeless drug addict in Fresno, Calif. said recently that he’s hoping his self-published account will be cautionary for young people, enlightening for the public and inspiring to those whose lives have become derailed. “Anybody can fall down, but everybody can get back up. […]
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Museum is village’s only capital request
The village of Klukwan has only one capital request to the Alaska Legislature this year: $750,000 for help paying for completion of the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center. Heritage center director Lani Hotch said the requested appropriation is half the $1.5 million the project must raise to reach a “tipping point” of 75 percent of total funding. Reaching […]
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Highway schools at crossroads
Haines Borough Manager David Sosa directed Mosquito Lake School advocates in December to describe the future of the school in relation to Klukwan School, an elementary and high school located less than five miles away inside the boundaries of the Chilkat Indian village. “If we have a situation where we have two struggling schools, that is not […]
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For Allen, radio and reading led to jobs here
Janine Allen doesn’t get a birthday, per say, this year, but she’s coming up on 27. The leap day baby has spent the past five years in Haines. Allen was born and raised in Greeley, Colo., and named after a nurse who worked with her obstetrician-gynecologist father and nurse mother in the delivery room where […]