A “gut trap” that kept fish waste out of the Small Boat Harbor last summer helped Haines become the third community in the state to earn certification under the Alaska Clean Harbors program. The trap, attached beneath fish-cleaning tables on the harbor floats, allows the borough to divert to the ocean volumes of fish waste […]
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Wrecked truck is part of view at scenic point
Haines Borough officials and Alaska State Troopers say they haven’t decided what to do with a wrecked pickup truck left two months ago on the town’s most prominent viewpoint. The truck was involved in a wreck near 6 Mile Lutak Road at the end of September, but was moved to the gravel parking area at Picture Point […]
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Tank farm advisory board back in action
Following a three-year hiatus, the community Restoration Advisory Board for the clean-up of the U.S. Army tank farm site on Lutak Road will meet Dec. 12. The meeting, including a report on recent restoration efforts, starts at 7 p.m. at the Chilkat Center. Identifying and filling “data gaps” will be the project’s next priorities. Restructuring of Alaska […]
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Developer dumps subdivision plans
A Juneau developer has scrapped plans for a 20-lot subdivision above Lutak Road, citing a sluggish Haines housing market and high development costs as reasons for abandoning the project. Jan Van Dort is trying to sell 18.7 acres of land between Lutak Road and Oslund Drive, which he envisioned would have turned into Lynnvista Estates. “I concluded that there […]
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Summer weather warm, not dry
Following a long, cold spring that kept snowmen standing into May, Haines saw a warmer summer than average, toppling a few temperature records. A temperature of 86 degrees at the Haines Airport on Father’s Day, June 16, set a new record, eclipsing 80 degrees, the record set in 2002. Temperatures over 80 degrees F. that […]
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Wild Things
The autumnal equinox has just passed and the days are getting shorter. Flocks of summer birds are moving south now with their young ones. Skye Posey saw merlins near the Lutak tank farm. These small falcons prey on migrating songbirds. Most of the rufous hummingbirds left a month ago, but there are some stragglers, and occasionally an Anna’s […]
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Duly Noted
Joe Parnell competed in the Whitehorse Fall Football Classic last weekend. The town revived the flag football tournament – or “Yukon Super Bowl,” as Parnell calls it – this year, after many years of a declining flag football presence. Parnell’s eight-person team consisting mainly of young Whitehorse men placed third among four teams, narrowly missing […]
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DOT OKs $90K for rail link study
The idea of a railway between Haines and Canada, a dream of some residents, has picked up some steam. The Haines Borough Tuesday directed manager Mark Earnest to negotiate a grant agreement with the Alaska Department of Transportation, which has offered up $87,000 to draft a study exploring the feasibility of building a railroad from Haines to Delta Junction. […]