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. […]
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First ‘century’ bike ride to be held on Saturday
The first Haines Century Ride, a 100-mile bicycling event through the Chilkat Valley for competitive and recreational riders, will be held Saturday starting at 8 a.m. The event also offers participants 20-mile and 80-mile rides. Haines Borough Tourism Director Tanya Carlson said she had the idea for a scenic bike ride years ago, but got tired […]
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Resident petitions to pave Blacksmith
Blacksmith Street resident Leo Smith is fed up with the dust from the heavily trafficked roadway outside his house and has organized a petition to get it paved. The street runs perpendicular to Beach Road in Fort Seward, threading between Lutak Lumber and the Fireweed Restaurant. Smith’s is the only residence on the unpaved street. A dry […]