Cancellation of the Baby Brown Timber sale will set the project back at least a year, foresters said this week. It’s uncertain whether the lone bidder on the sale, Astoria Forest Products of Astoria, Ore., will bid on it again. The company did not return CVN requests for comment. “They said to keep in contact […]
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Youth theater camp roles still open
More than 15 students will take the stage in “The Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad” on July 21 and 22 as part of the Lynn Canal Community Players Summer Youth Conservatory. Stanley Coleman and Bill Winkley from Eugene, Org. will spend their fourth year as directors of the camp, teaching students ages 8-18 about all aspects of […]
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Independence Day Preview
Apple is America’s pie, but you’re in rhubarb territory This year’s Fourth of July is all about the pie. At nightly bingo games at the ANB Hall on July 1, July 2 and July 4, two locally made pies will be awarded each night, along with traditional cash prizes. Pie rounds will be announced randomly […]
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Gillnet season starts out strong
A healthy plug of chum salmon and an improved price over last season bolstered the opening week of the Lynn Canal drift gillnet season. Preliminary numbers showed more than 100 boats averaging about 580 chum salmon each during the two-day opening that started Sunday. “We had boats that had 300 to 400 chum right off the bat,” […]
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Charging sow a concern at Chilkoot
Visitors take caution. A brown bear sow accompanied by three yearling cubs has lunged at cars and people along the Chilkoot Corridor and Lutak Spur Road this week. Tim McDonough, chair of the Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee, said he witnessed the sow charge cars on the road on Saturday. McDonough watched as two cars drove […]
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Scovill sells Parts Place to Thorgesen After 31 years under owner Tomi Scovill, the Parts Place will pass to new owner Chris Thorgesen next month. “Thirty-one years is a long time,” Scovill said. “I’ve been saying it’s time to do something different.” Scovil came to Haines about 45 years ago from Michigan, and said she […]
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Longtime heroin addict shares struggle for sobriety
Editor’s note: The name of the heroin addict described in the following story has been changed. Shirley, a 56-year-old woman living in Haines, is broken. When she was 21, her husband fired a bullet into her gut. He also threw her down a flight of stairs, breaking nearly every bone on the left side of […]
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Pilot in fatal flight turned off 1 engine
The pilot involved in a fatal May 27 plane crash near Haines shut off one of the engines during the flight and couldn’t restart it, according to the lone survivor. In an interview with crash survivor Chan Valentine, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator learned that about 20 minutes into the flight from Juneau to […]
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Sibling contracts OK elsewhere
In contrast to Haines, small Southeast communities including Yakutat, Craig, Wrangell, Petersburg and Skagway have no language regarding their managers making decisions affecting the financial interest of their immediate family members. Codes of larger communities, including Ketchikan and Sitka, do prohibit managers from making decisions that would result in financial gain for an “immediate family […]
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Pilot in fatal flight turned off 1 engine
The pilot involved in a fatal May 27 plane crash near Haines shut off one of the engines during the flight and couldn’t restart it, according to the lone survivor. In an interview with crash survivor Chan Valentine, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator learned that about 20 minutes into the flight from Juneau to […]