At separate meetings last week, commercial fishermen and Haines Borough officials identified potential funding sources for the harbor expansion project. An estimated $10 million of the $30 million final project is unfunded, including mooring floats, a drive-down float, and a portion of the cost of a boat launch. At a meeting of the Lynn Canal Gillnetters Association, members spoke […]
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Borough will fight planned ferry cuts
Haines Borough officials are organizing a community response to a planned reduction in ferry service that tourism director Leslie Ross describes as “winter service in the summer.” The proposed 2016 summer schedule includes no service on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and three weekly sailings by the ferry LeConte. This compares to five weekly sailings by the […]
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Committee brings on McDonough, Poinsette
Tim McDonough and Derek Poinsette were elected last week to the State’s Fish and Wildlife Upper Lynn Canal Advisory Committee. Five other seats on the 11-member board will be decided in December, committee chair Ryan Cook said this week. McDonough, former chair of the committee, was elected to fill a one-year seat created by the resignation of […]
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Workshop will teach art and craft of storytelling
Afraid of public speaking? That’s okay, local author and historian Dan Henry likes a challenge. Henry will lead a storytelling workshop beginning at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at the Haines School. It is sponsored by the Alaska Arts Confluence. Confluence creative director Carol Tuynman said the board decided to enlist Henry for a workshop […]
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State denies appeal of giant timber sale
Plans to clearcut about 900 acres of old-growth forest near the Klehini River moved one step closer to fruition last week when the state denied the appeal of Lynn Canal Conservation and two other conservation groups. In April, LCC, Greenpeace and Oregon-based Cascadia Wildlands appealed the Division of Forestry’s decision to authorize the “Baby Brown” timber sale, […]
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Off Broadway event wowed audience
On behalf of the Foundation for the Chilkat Center for the Arts, I would like to thank all the performers who made the Off Off Off Broadway show so wonderfully entertaining. Special thanks go out to the Zumba girls, the Women’s Chorus, the Men of Note, the Lynn Canal Community Players, the Badly-Drawn Bunnies, Ed’s Plumbing, Cherri Price, […]
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Police Blotter
Monday, Sept. 21 A caller reported someone stole her purse and phone at a local bar. The woman said she didn’t want to press charges, but just wanted her things back. An officer was advised. The clinic asked police for help contacting Lynn Canal Counseling’s on-call clinician. A person reported receiving harassing phone calls. An officer met […]
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Publisher, community leader Ray Menaker dead at 93
Ray Menaker, an Ivy League-educated school teacher and Haines Borough Assembly member who founded or fostered a half-dozen civic institutions including launching the Chilkat Valley News, died Tuesday morning at his Haines Assisted Living apartment. He was 93. “He was a man for all seasons. He had a foot in everything,” said resident Georgia Haisler, who recalled […]
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Moose hunt off to quick start
The upper Lynn Canal subsistence moose hunt has started with a bang — or rather, a lot of them. Eighteen moose, including one sublegal, were taken in the first nine days of the hunt, the fastest harvest in years. The hunt is scheduled to continue through Oct. 7, with a management objective of 20-25 bulls harvested, said […]
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King salmon escapement goal reached
A closure of subsistence and sport fishing in Lynn Canal last spring apparently had its desired effect. The Department of Fish and Game has met its escapement goal, as an estimated 2,300 large, spawning chinook are estimated to have returned to Chilkat River spawning grounds. The department seeks a goal of 1,850 to 3,600 spawners to sustain the run. […]