The Lynn Canal Community Players (LCCP) will resume community theater in April after a long covid-caused hiatus with a production of the Agatha Christie mystery “A Murder is Announced.” Production director Roger Gentry said the LCCP board chose an Agatha Christie production based on the near-universal love audiences and readers have for her stories. “Right now, as […]
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Assembly grants heliski tour permit to fourth operator
After months of debate, the Haines Borough Assembly granted a heliski tour permit to a fourth operator in the Chilkat Valley. The Jan. 11 decision came three weeks after the assembly, in a 4-2 vote, adopted changes to the borough’s heliski code, raising a cap on tour permits for three years and replacing regulations on skier days with a limit on […]
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AMHS adds two sailings with private ferry
Following complaints about diminished ferry service to the upper Lynn Canal, the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) added two January sailings between Juneau, Haines and Skagway on a private catamaran. The passenger-only ferry will be operated by Goldbelt Inc., the Juneau-based Native corporation. The ship will leave Juneau at 8 a.m. on Jan. 24 and Jan. […]
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New year brings new hope for tourism
Haines had fewer visitors in 2021 than in any other year for the last two decades, except 2020, according to a report compiled by Haines Borough tourism director Steven Auch. But Auch and members of the Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) are optimistic that in 2022 the borough could see a return to pre-pandemic tourism levels — or […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Thank you, Eric Holle
Thank you, Eric Holle, for three decades of care and advocacy on behalf of Southeast Alaska’s wild and priceless environment: fisheries habitat, water quality standards, wolf, mountain goat, game and forest management, to name a few. Facing strong opposition from the preachers of quick cash, Eric has been eloquent and courageous on behalf of generations unborn. And […]
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Duly Noted
Mercy Evelyn Nash was born to parents Amy and Song Nash on Feb. 29 at Seattle’s Ballard Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and measured 18.5 inches. Mercy’s siblings are Mason, 4, and Christian, 6. Grandparents are Becky and Don Nash of Haines, and Mona and Dick Junkin of Edmonds, Wash. Song and Amy live in Haines during the summer, and Edmonds the rest of the year. They look […]
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2021 sees rebuilding, recovery from disaster, pandemic
Recovery and rebuilding were the watchwords of 2021 as residents navigated life in Haines among the wreckage left by the December storms and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Also in this year’s news, the borough secured a $20 million grant to repair the Lutak Dock, a new borough manager was hired, incidents of bear and human interactions, including […]
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Residents launch food policy project
Will hold public workshop in February A team of local residents is launching an effort to collect information about food production, storage and supply in the Upper Lynn Canal. The effort is part of a project, led by the Homer-based Alaska Food Policy Council and funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to improve food production […]
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Hot-mic remark causes concern
Assuming he was muted on Zoom at a Nov. 29 heliski Committee of the Whole meeting, Eric Holle said, “I’d like to kill Liz Cornejo.” Cornejo had just given a public comment in which she critiqued Holle’s use of the word “critical” to describe mountain goat habitat that the state hasn’t designated as “critical.” Earlier in the […]
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Heliski focus shifts to limiting helicopters
As the Haines Borough Assembly weighs a draft ordinance that would eliminate a cap on heliski tour permits in the borough, a new idea has piqued the interest of assembly members. The borough could limit the number of helicopters per operator and abolish its current restriction on skier days. The idea, which emerged in a version of the ordinance […]