The Haines Dolphins Swim Team and board members would like to send out a big thank you to the following for a fantastic Winter Games 2013 swim meet held here Jan. 18-20: · Chilkat Valley Community Foundation, which awarded HDST a grant that funded our new laptops that run and keep the meet running smoothly; […]
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Duly Noted
Haines artists will be well represented at Juneau’s Dimond Park Aquatic Center. Husband and wife teams Donna Catotti and Rob Goldberg and John and Sharon Svenson are creating large pieces in the pool’s lobby and main viewing area. Donna and Rob worked together on sliding glass partition doors and windows that depict an underwater kelp […]
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Mining trip: Necessary or junket?
Some Haines Borough officials are questioning whether the borough is spending its time and money wisely by sending three public officials to a Canadian mineral exploration conference. Borough Manager Mark Earnest, executive assistant to the manager Darsie Culbeck and assembly member Steve Vick are scheduled to travel to Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 28-31 for the Mineral Exploration Roundup conference. Assembly member Debra […]
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Why is dock at top of priority list?
I’ve been very disturbed to read that the assembly put the Lutak Dock project at the top of our funding list. Shouldn’t we be having a public discussion on this before jumping in? Consider: World oil supplies are now known to have peaked in 2006. We are living in a post-cheap oil world, with prices for everything skyrocketing, including fuel […]
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Wild Things
This seems like a quiet time of year for wildlife viewing. Many of the summer animals have gone elsewhere or hibernated. There’s still quite a bit of activity, and it’s easier to see without leaves on the trees. Rafts of goldeneyes swim in inlets and tracks tell the stories of birds and small mammals in the snow. […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Thanks for help after Brewster’s death
I would like to offer my deepest appreciation and thanks to the caretaker, Al Badgley, Chuck Mitman and the ambulance crew, especially the Uglys – you guys are the best – following the death of Jolie M. Brewster. Thanks also to Allen Hyatt and Lutak Lumber, Floy McDowell and Jason and Jessica Rettinger for their caring help. […]
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Three cameras to be installed to watch docks
The Haines Borough will install three surveillance cameras at the Lutak and Port Chilkoot docks as part of a Department of Homeland Security grant requirement. The resolution authorizing borough manager Mark Earnest to purchase the three cameras for $18,075 assures “the borough has not gone camera crazy” in its summary statement. Earnest said the comment was probably added due to an […]
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Shakwak funds cut; highway may suffer
Congress’s recent failure to renew funding for a federal road maintenance program could impact tourism and trade in Haines. Funding for the Shakwak Project, a decades-old agreement between the United States and Canadian governments regarding reconstruction and maintenance of the Alaska Highway, was not renewed in this year’s federal highway bill. The U.S. government typically […]
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2012: The Year in Review
The earth moved in 2012 and the shift wasn’t only the “slump” on the side of Mount Ripinsky that cleaved a house and split Lutak Road. Four-term incumbent state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, aiming to become Speaker of the House, lost his seat to Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a 23-year-old Sitkan seeking his first political office. Klukwan, Inc., once among the wealthiest Native […]
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Planners skeptical of tree-cutting rules
Members of the Haines Borough Planning Commission expressed skepticism during their Dec. 13 meeting that prohibiting residents from cutting down trees on their property would help address issues related to the slump and ground movement near the Oceanview and Lutak areas. Though PND Engineers Inc. have not yet submitted their technical memorandum – a report offering the engineering rationale […]