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Tom Ganner, Don Chase and Jedediah Blum-Evits have noticed black-billed magpies along Haines Highway at 10 Mile and 22 Mile. Are they moving back into town for the winter or just hanging out? Magpie migrations are poorly understood in the Chilkat Valley, but they have been moving up north of the Alaska Range for the first time. Carol Duis […]
Kreiss-Tomkins: ‘Unsavory options’ ahead
Speaking to the Haines Chamber of Commerce Feb. 15, state House Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka, painted a dire picture of Alaska’s finances in the coming decades. “We’re running out of money, basically,” Kreiss-Tomkins said. “The good news is we have a lot of money in the bank so nobody is really going to be hurting […]
Team treks to Skagway in 40 hours
Only about a dozen people are known to have traveled by foot between Haines and Skagway. Six residents who made the mountaineering trip Jan. 31 likely set a record, making it from Lutak to Dyea in 40 hours by swimming across the Ferebee River and stopping for just four hours’ sleep. The trip also is significant for […]
Panel working on crab proposal
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee is taking a small step toward addressing ongoing tension between commercial and subsistence Dungeness crabbers in Haines. The committee voted at its Jan. 22 meeting to organize a subcommittee charged with putting together a proposal that would close commercial crabbing a quarter-mile from the shoreline during the summer […]
Wild Things
What does January’s unusually warm weather mean for our critters? It appears to be a mixed bag. According to Fish and Game biologist Ryan Scott, bears are likely to stay put in their dens. Later in the year they might come out early, but probably not now. Less snow makes finding food and getting around easier for moose and goats, […]
State, borough crews battle local flooding
Heavy rains that fell on a record December snowfall Tuesday swamped streets and roads and swelled a creek that flooded a Beach Road home. “(Water) was coming in the side door and going out the front door” at the home of Dick and Carol Flegel, said Haines fire chief Scott Bradford. In a wind-driven, slushy […]
Sewer plant at top of borough’s wish list
The Haines Borough’s capital requests “wish list” to the Alaska Legislature for the 2015 fiscal year looks about the same as last year’s list, with a slight bit of rearranging. At its Dec. 10 meeting, the assembly approved the 13-item list, which contains what the assembly and administration believe to be the most pressing local […]
Pace of tank farm clean-up an issue for residents
Residents on Dec. 12 expressed frustration with the progress of the environmental cleanup at the former U.S. Army tank farm site. During the first meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board since June 2010, member Jim Studley asked why the Army didn’t just excavate soil in tank areas and main lines and decontaminate it. “Dig those […]
Mayor arranges ferry terminal parking deal
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott has won a temporary victory in the fight to retain overnight parking space for Haines residents at the ferry terminal. Scott received an email Dec. 9 saying the borough’s request for a waiver of the ferry system’s no-overnight-parking policy has been granted for the time being. Richard Leary, the ferry system’s business development […]