A Haines woman who heads up a regional domestic abuse education and prevention program recently won national recognition for her efforts. Jackie Mazeikas, whose five-year-old program serves Haines and four neighboring communities, traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive the Indian Health Service’s Director’s Award from agency director Yvette Roubidaux. Steve Whitehorn, a public health advisor […]
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Duly Noted
Services were held Saturday for lifelong resident Fred Strong, who died at his Klukwan home Dec. 28. He was 62. Strong worked as a truck driver and construction worker. An obituary will be printed in next week’s CVN. Falconer Mario Benassi flies his goshawk every day. The bird has attacked everything from milk jugs to […]
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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. […]
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Crime, weather left mark on 2014
The Haines Borough, its school and police department, came under new management in 2014, a year marked by lopsided weather patterns, infrastructure worries and chronic crime. Acts of courage brightened a townscape clouded as much by economic uncertainty as by months of rain. Luke Marquardt ran back into a house fire to save a friend. Novice […]
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Residents rally to keep school building
Saying they were shocked to recently learn that the Haines Borough might sell Mosquito Lake School, upper valley residents – including young parents toting babies – turned out Tuesday night to organize and appeal to borough leaders to keep the building as a community center that might reopen as a school. They received no promises. More than […]
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Chilkat tribe honors Hotch for legacy of leadership
Klukwan elder Joe Hotch has a new jacket. It’s black, with yellow embroidery that reads “Chilkat Indian Village – President Emeritus.” Kimberley Strong, vice-president of the Chilkat Indian Village tribal council, placed the jacket on Hotch at a Nov. 24 ceremony in Klukwan, following passage of a tribal resolution bestowing the title. Hotch, 84, served as […]
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Borough to await state’s lead on pot
The Haines Borough is waiting for the state to take the lead on how marijuana dispensaries and grow operations will be regulated following the passage of Proposition 2, but residents already are mulling over the pros and cons of opening a business. Clerk Julie Cozzi said the day after the Nov. 4 election, a man came to […]
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Duly Noted
Leo Randal Nash was born 2:27 a.m. on Nov. 17 at Riverbend Hospital in Springfield, Ore., to parents Emma and Carl Nash. Leo weighed 8 pounds, 2.4 ounces and measured 20.75 inches. Grandparents are Dwight and Nancy Nash of Haines, Randy McDonald of Haines and Marie McDonald of Eugene, Ore. Leo is Dwight and Nancy’s […]
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Foundation boosted heritage center
I am writing to express my appreciation to all the people who have donated to the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation. I attended the CVCF gathering at the Haines Borough Library last week and was able to hear all the great things that have happened in our valley due to the contributions that were made by the CVCF, […]
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Class plumbs history of village at Klucktoo
Local histories of a Native village known as Klucktoo say it was destroyed by a mudslide in the 1890s and abandoned, but a recent review of historic records suggests it remained inhabited until at least 1919. Also, an 1895 photograph of undetermined origin shows a settlement at present-day 19 Mile Haines Highway with as many […]