At least some of the killer whales spotted in Lutak Inlet on Feb. 17 were members of “AG pod,” a fish-eating group of orcas that number up to 35, a NOAA spokesman said this week. Sadie Wright said scientists inspecting photos of the whales have identified a large male (known as AG 21) and a large female […]
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Games put homegrown spin on Olympic events
The Haines Winter Games will be held Sunday. First held as the Winter Olympics in 1999, the event started as a hockey tournament under the fairgounds’ Payson’s Pavilion during an especially cold and snowy winter. A BB-gun biathlon, snowshoe race and turkey bowling were added, some flags were strung, and Haines High School music teacher […]
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Sports-a-palooza: Hotch tourney, Winter Fest
If you like your winter sports indoors or out, there will be plenty to see or to do next weekend. Indoors, the 36th annual Dick Hotch Memorial Basketball Tournament starts Thursday, March 2, featuring its first-ever women’s bracket and cash purses for men’s and women’s champions. Out of doors, the first Haines Winter Fest combines […]
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Wet snow shuts off power
Lutak residents fired up woodstoves, melted snow and hunkered down Saturday when a hard-to-reach break in a main transmission line left their neighborhood without power for nearly 24 hours. “It was the longest power outage I’ve experienced here for at least 10 years,” said Lutak Road resident Al Badgley. The main outage occurred at 2:40 p.m. Saturday […]
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Planners shoot down raising height rules
The Haines Borough Planning Commission last week backed off a plan to raise a 30-foot height restriction after hearing from firefighters that they couldn’t fight a blaze in a three-story building. Instead, the commission will recommend lowering the height restrictions along Lutak and Mud Bay roads and in General Use zones to match the 30-foot limit throughout the borough. […]
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Harbor group likes $37 million option
The Haines Borough’s Port and Harbor Advisory Committee on Feb. 2 endorsed a $37.3 million Lutak Dock rebuild option. It’s a variation of a $32 million alternative favored by borough staff that encapsulates the decaying dock, but it adds $5 million to address an eroded section on the earthen dock’s face. Jeremy Stephens, who worked as an […]
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Police Report
Monday, June 29 A caller reported there were no flaggers to direct traffic around construction work on Allen Road. Officers checked the site and found the road was closed, with adequate signage. Multiple callers reported loud explosions on Mud Bay Road. Police responded and found the noise was from an accelerant used to ignite a […]
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Court report
Kristopher T. Morden, 47, was convicted April 24 of unlawfully harvesting commercial Dungeness crab. Morden harvested crab on Oct. 1, 2011, in Tanani Bay prior to the season opening. He was sentenced to one year of probation, $10 in fees, and $500 in fines. James Studley, 55, was convicted on Dec. 28, 2011, of driving […]
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Assembly takes up taxes, cuts
Haines Borough Assembly members voiced support for reducing or eliminating dedication of sales taxes, and pursuing new alcohol, tobacco and marijuana taxes during a workshop Tuesday aimed at providing direction to staff developing next year’s budget. There was also support voiced for a severance tax and for billing insurance for ambulance calls. But the meeting […]
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Assembly extends lobbyist’s hire
The Haines Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to keep lobbyist Bill Thomas on the job until June, to advertise for a permanent borough manager in Alaska only and to award a $71,000 marine mammal monitoring contract to proHNS, a local engineering firm. Thomas, 69, is a commercial fisherman and former state legislator who worked last year as borough lobbyist for […]