Sunday, Dec. 1 Caller reported a tree blocking the entire roadway on Beach Road. The borough’s Public Works Department was advised and responded. Caller requested a welfare check on a friend on Small Tracts Road who he was unable to get a hold of. A message was relayed to DOT with questions about runway conditions […]
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Planning commission postpones hearing on Atlas Tower proposal, hears neighbors push back on 5G
A Colorado company that has been seeking to build a 120-foot 5G tower in Haines since January has again proposed to put it in a residential area. Atlas Tower 1 is proposing using land owned by Roger Schnabel’s Highland Estate’s Inc., at 877 Young Road, to build a 2,500 square foot wireless facility providing what […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Get information from the source instead of relying on government officials to paraphrase it
As an administrator of the Facebook group Haines Chatters, I regularly post notices of public meetings, transcripts, recorded comments, and agenda items to the group. This social media option provides a community service to interested members regarding official information taken directly from the Haines Borough website. My postings of government information are copied word-for-word from […]
Posted inLocal News, Elections
Nearly 800 votes counted in unofficial Chilkat Valley election results
At least 798 Chilkat Valley residents cast ballots according to results released by the state’s Division of elections early Wednesday morning. In the presidential election, both Haines No. 1 which encompasses Lutak Road, Mud Bay and Haines and Haines No. 2 which includes much of the upper Chilkat Valley voted for former President Donald Trump […]
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Committee members who prefer to spread dogma over finding solutions should be removed
Members of the Ports and Harbors Advisory Committee have been using their individual seats for personal attacks against members of the public and prior assembly members, as evidenced in the Oct. 31, 2024 meeting. These same two individuals routinely spread misinformation about the Lutak Dock issue to perpetuate an unaffordable project when they should be […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted: A death, an absence, a week honoring veterans, and a voucher program
Betty Ewing Dewitt, 89, died on Oct. 20. Dewitt, her husband and three children moved to Haines in 1962. A full obituary will be included in a future edition of the Chilkat Valley News. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is set to issue an executive proclamation declaring Veterans Small Business Week. Visiting Haines Rep. Andi Story shared […]
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Duly Noted: Student government and local gourmets
Three students from Haines attended the Alaska Association of Student Governments in Delta Junction recently. Selby Long, Maddox Rogers, and Aimee Lahr headed first to Fairbanks with their adviser Alex Van Wyhe and chaperone Pam Long. There they did a campus tour of UAF with Selby’s brother, Haines graduate Jackson Long. Then the group traveled […]
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Election: Assembly outcomes could shift, but not likely for planning commission and school board
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Results rolled in for the boroughwide regular election Tuesday showing voters favoring a shift on the Haines assembly, though the results could flip before the counting is over. Currently in the lead on the assembly is Cheryl Stickler, with an 81 votes over the candidate with the second highest total, Mark […]
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Your questions answered: Borough Assembly
Earlier this month we asked you to help shape the Chilkat Valley News’ local election reporting by submitting questions for the candidates. We collected those questions, tossed out a few that were clearly spam, and took nine total directly to the assembly and planning commission candidates. Assembly candidates answered questions about the Lutak Dock, the […]
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After a break, Stickler seeks to return to the Assembly
In the late 1960s, Cheryl Stickler’s family moved to the Chilkat Valley. She attended kindergarten through the third grade in town. She was young, but Stickler remembers a different landscape in Haines at the time. “I remember walking to school by the big, scary woods,” she said. “ I remember there were so many children […]