The Juneau assembly will consider an ordinance that would amend the borough’s sales tax code to collect on goods and services sold aboard cruise ships, whether tied to the dock or anchored in front of town. The ordinance would amend a provision in code that currently exempts sales aboard cruise ships from the borough’s 5% […]
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With Excursion Inlet shut, more boats sell to Haines Packing
Boost expected for fish tax revenues Despite relatively low salmon harvest numbers in the Lynn Canal this season, Haines Packing Company processed 2.5 million pounds of salmon—the most since Harry Rietze took over the plant at Letnikof Cove in 2013. Forty gillnetters, or about two-thirds of the Haines fleet, landed their fish at Letnikof. That’s a 60% […]
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Local author recounts Alaska baseball craze
A team of black soldiers from Fort Seward played against a White Pass railroad crew in one of the earliest documented baseball games in Lynn Canal. Author Larry Johansen of Haines recounted that story and others during two presentations at the Haines Sheldon Museum last week. The talks included a cameo appearance by the historic professional […]
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Community foundation distributes annual grants
Awardees include residents impacted by storms The Chilkat Valley Community Foundation distributed nearly $32,000 in grants to local nonprofits during its annual 2021 CVCF grant awards ceremony last week. New awardees this year include the Alaska Teachers Association and Haines Huts. Also new this year, the CVCF also awarded additional grants from its disaster fund […]
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Cadet and trumpeter Haley Boron has earned a spot in the U.S. Air Force Academy Drum and Bugle Corps. Known as the “Flight of Sound,” the band plays at events including the Tournament of Roses Parade and Mardi Gras. Haley recently traveled with the band to an academy football game in Idaho aboard a C-17 aircraft, a […]
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Kasen Lee Morriss was born May 9 at Providence Hospital in Anchorage. Kasen is the first child of Kimberly and Mason Morriss, of Juneau. Mason weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 18.5 inches. Despite Kasen’s arrival five weeks ahead of schedule, Kim’s mom Julie Ferrin was able to make last-minute flights to Juneau and Anchorage in time for his delivery. […]
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Piggott book details life on the pipeline, Klondike Highway
In a collection of journal entries, sketches and photographs, Margaret Piggott, 89, details her account as a woman and an environmentalist working during the 1970s on the Klondike Highway and the Alaska Pipeline in her second book, “No Place to Pee.” “There was no place to pee,” Piggott said of working in the all-male environment […]
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Assembly creates commercial fisheries advisory board
The Haines Borough Assembly created an advisory board to guide the borough’s response to state and federal regulations that affect Haines’ commercial fisheries. The board will comprise seven members: four permit holders, a seafood processor and two community at-large seats. Each permit holder will represent a different sector of Haines’ commercial fisheries. Seats are reserved for a […]
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Story tellers wanted, River Talk is back
The Lynn Canal Community Players (LCCP) are bringing back River Talk on Thursday Oct. 21 after a more than year-and-a-half, pandemic-caused hiatus. “It’s been a while,” said LCCP president Kristen Brumfield. “We’re trying to get people coming back to the theater. Next week is our first one. There will be food and beverages.” The evening will consist […]
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About 75 residents, including Haines Borough school board members, turned out Tuesday for the unveiling and dedication of the Skate Park art project, recently completed by the high school art club, led by art teacher Giselle Miller. The project added colorful murals and pop art stylings to ramps there, including flourishes by guest artist Jeremy Settem of Haines. Haines High senior Aubrey Cook leads […]