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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Harbor 3rd in state to get ‘clean’ rating
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 […]