The state has terminated an aquaculture group’s contract for the Lutak king salmon enhancement project, where recent accidents are pushing up per-fish costs. With a projected return rate of less than one percent, each adult king salmon returning from the Lutak project this year will cost between $60 and $120. But when fish return from this year’s diminished release, […]
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Fish plant settles with EPA over waste
A $50,000 settlement has been reached between the Environmental Protection Agency and a Lutak fish processor. Chilkoot Fish and Caviar agreed to the fine, to be paid over three years, following charges brought against the company by the federal agency last fall. “The underlying basis for the complaint was that for four years Chilkoot Fish and Caviar […]
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Apple tree plan moving ahead Target sites: Main Street, Old Haines Highway, Fort
About 100 apple trees brought to Haines in May may be planted on the south side of Main Street between Third Avenue and Old Haines Highway, along the south side of Old Haines Highway between Lutak Lumber and Third Avenue and at Fort Seward this fall. That’s the current vision of Joe Poor, chair of the Haines […]
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State reconsiders king salmon project
The death of 220,000 king salmon smolt in three years has led the state to re-examine its contract with the regional aquaculture association. An estimated 170,000 king salmon smolt, nearly 70 percent of fish being transported to a fish pen in Lutak Inlet, died in late June during the 17-hour trip. The program is run by the […]
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Mysterious rock has finder guessing
Residents are excited that a hunk of metal found on Lutak Road last fall might be a meteorite, but two area scientists think it’s more likely a chunk of scrap. Theories abound about the origin of a metallic rock found by construction flagger Della Brouillette last fall. Tests are underway to determine its origin, but lab results […]
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Big thanks from Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum would like to thank Lutak Lumber, Haines Homebuilding, Haislers’ Hardware and Olerud’s grocery for contributions that helped make the Fourth of July festivities a big hit. Dave Pahl
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Duly Noted
Susie McCartney and Geoffrey Nelson exchanged rings and marriage vows on Kenting beach in southern Taiwan on the winter solstice, Dec. 21. Geoff’s brother Eric Nelson, who was teaching on the island, officiated the private beach ceremony. Susie and Geoff decided to complete their union, along with the requisite paperwork, on the summer solstice in […]
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Let’s have seawalk, not log barricade
I recently learned that I am being blamed for placing logs and boulders which have blocked public access to the property known as Picture Point. I do not own that property and I would like to assure the residents of Haines that I had nothing to do with this. To the contrary, soon after I […]
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Chip-coat crew works state roads Resurfacing work at town’s edge to go through July
Seventeen miles of outlying roads will get a coat of chip-seal surface in the next six weeks, as the regional maintenance crew from the state Department of Transportation brings its crew to Haines for the first time in five years. The chip-coat crew rotates around Southeast and worked at Prince of Wales Island and Ketchikan […]
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Group proposes pedestrian signs
A committee appointed to develop new pedestrian signs for the borough has determined 13 locations for them and as many as 21 landmarks they’ll point to. As envisioned, the signs will be akin to signposts in Britain, with a dozen or more signs about the size of street signs – pointed on one end to […]