Sunday, August 2 A citizen turned in a found debit card on the Haines Highway. The owner was contacted and picked up the card. A caller at 31.5 mile on the Haines Highway requested information and updates about wildfires. A caller on FAA road reported a person tried to shoot a bear in front of […]
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Rural Health Transformation Program advances Haines projects
The Haines Borough and Chilkoot Indian Association are still in the running for a share of Alaska’s quarter-billion dollar Rural Health Transformation fund this year. The fund was created last summer by the federal tax and spending bill often referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill. The legislation made major cuts to Medicaid but […]
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BOROUGH JOB POSTING: CAT-HERD
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Police Blotter: July 26 – August 1
Sunday, July 26 A citizen turned in a backpack with items in it at the 30 Block of Second Ave; property logged in lost and found. A caller reported they could not find their children at Front St; HBPD officer advised. Caller reported children found. A caller requested a welfare check on a citizen at […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Saturday August 1
A couple on a walk in the Klehini River flats found an explosive they initially took to be trash when they picked it up. They called the Haines police, who contacted the Juneau police department’s bomb squad. A bomb technician from Juneau and another from the FBI came to town to investigate, then did a […]
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Assembly Briefs: Borough prepares to solicit offers on cruise dock, and more
The borough is preparing to go public in a search for offers on Port Chilkoot Dock management, pending another assembly vote next month. Even just a few months ago the concept of outside management at the borough’s cruise ship facility wasn’t on the radar. The borough has long owned the facility, maintained it, and in […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted: New blooms, old friends and more
Reed Scott-Schwalbach, whose mother Stephanie Scott was a longtime Haines resident, special education teacher, dahlia flower farmer and mayor, was in town for Kaya Ramirez’s wedding. (Ramirez is Beth MacCready and Gregg Bigsby’s niece). Scott-Schwalbach attended the Southeast Alaska State Fair and did some hiking. Husband Chris Celauro did his part to support the Haines […]
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Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday July 24
The land by the Haines Highway 18 mile marker holds a lot of personal history for Patrick Philpott. He grew up gardening there on a plot his family has cultivated for generations, stretching back to the early 20th century, when they opened a roadhouse nearby. The land is now part of the state Chilkat Bald […]