After 20 years, Marcia Scott has retired as administrator at the Haines Health Clinic. Scott started as a receptionist in 1994, when the non-profit Lynn Canal Medical Center employed two doctors, two office staff and three nurses. “There have been some pretty extraordinary changes since then,” Scott said of the clinic, which currently employs 35 through its […]
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Craney to staff LCC office, lead outreach
Katie Craney is Lynn Canal Conservation’s new conservation coordinator. She’ll be spokesperson for the group, with duties including membership development. She replaces Macky Cassidy, who previously held the job. Craney said her goals include reaching out to other organizations and communities. “I’m excited. This is down a path I’ve wanted to go for a while. There’s definitely […]
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Hatchery chum bounty may slip
Though still early for predictions, a combination of market and supply issues may reduce local income from chum salmon, the species that drives the value of the commercial fishery in Haines. Fishermen say they fear a smaller harvest and lower prices for the fish they catch next year. Chum account for about 80 percent of […]
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Advisory committee to meet
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet in the Haines Borough Assembly chambers 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. The agenda will include an end-of-the-year summary by commercial fish biologist Randy Bachman and a discussion of Chilkat king salmon by Haines sportfish biologists, including stock status, trends, recent runs and outlook. The king salmon discussion “is […]
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Crime, weather left mark on 2014
The Haines Borough, its school and police department, came under new management in 2014, a year marked by lopsided weather patterns, infrastructure worries and chronic crime. Acts of courage brightened a townscape clouded as much by economic uncertainty as by months of rain. Luke Marquardt ran back into a house fire to save a friend. Novice […]
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Sebens to lead play; auditions in January
Auditions will be held in January for “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a play by Lynn Canal Community Players that director Tod Sebens hopes to stage by late February. Set in County Donegal, Ireland in 1936, the play is a drama of a large, Catholic family coming to grips with its poverty and insecurity in a changing world at […]
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New members elected to advisory committee
The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee met last week for its annual elections, voting in Ryan Cook and re-electing Randy Jackson to three-year seats. About 50 people showed up to vote. Commercial fisherman Terry Pardee was also elected to fill out the rest of former committee member Julia Heinz’s term, which ends in one […]
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Preschool will pursue Willard site
The Chilkat Valley Preschool board last week voted to pursue a Willard Street commercial building as the school’s new site. Also, at January’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting, officials with the privately-operated community school will seek a six-month extension to a June 30 deadline for moving out of the borough’s Human Resources Building, said preschool administrator Renee Hoffman. […]
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School board taps Tiffany DeWitt, Mike Wilson
Following a 20-minute closed-door session to “compare and contrast” candidates, the Haines Borough school board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint social worker and former teacher’s aide Tiffany DeWitt and retired elementary school principal Mike Wilson to open seats on the seven-member board. They replace Scott Doddridge and Brenda Josephson and will serve until October’s municipal election. Other board […]
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Corps permit sought for Juneau Road
The Alaska Department of Transportation this week applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fill or dredge about 100 acres of wetlands, streams and intertidal areas for construction of the East Side Lynn Canal Highway, also known as the Juneau Road. DOT spokesperson Jeremy Woodrow said applying for the permit before a […]