The Summer Youth Theater Conservatory was a remarkable experience. Sixteen exceptionally talented children created an enjoyable and challenging play and gave a great performance of “The Commedia Puss in Boots.” My partner Bill Winkley and I want to thank Annette Smith, Daniel Henry and Lynn Canal Community Players for engaging us to direct the children’s theater. Cathy […]
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Assembly ranks grant requests by non-profits
Members of a Haines Borough Assembly ad hoc committee will decide on 11 applications from local nonprofits requesting more than $127,000 in borough funds. During budgeting, the assembly set aside $78,760 to distribute to nonprofits: $32,500 in the “community chest” or general fund, $28,760 in the medical service area fund and $17,500 in the tourism and economic […]
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Catapult effort say thanks
The Haines Borough Public Library would like to thank everyone who helped with the catapult competition. Teens were able to learn about propulsion, work-energy and aerodynamics with library systems engineer Erik Stevens. Lynn Canal Counseling Services provided supplies, tools and supervision. James Alborough lent us ammunition. Lutak Lumber provided expertise on medieval warfare. If not for their help, we would not […]
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Students excelled in “Puss in Boots”
The play production of “Puss in Boots” by the Summer Youth Theater Conservatory was great fun, colorful and action-packed, and we could hear every word! The students did a great job and deserve congratulations. The staff, Dr. Stanley Coleman, director, and assistants Bill Winkley, Cathy Pashigian and Kirstin Amann were so impressed with the amount […]
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Wild Things
A friend is calling this year the drama queen year. Record snowfalls in December. Near-record rainfall in June. Extremely warm temperatures in January and May and especially low ones in February. And right along with that, plants are taller and bearing more fruit. Julie Folta says her potato plants are almost five feet tall. Unfortunately, the plants’ […]
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Chum harvest spikes; red return strong on 2 rivers
The lead-up to Fourth of July proved a bounty for gillnetters in Lynn Canal, with 240 boats each averaging more than 1,600 chum or 7.4 tons of hatchery dog salmon during the season’s third opening. “The harvest was crazy. It was a huge week,” said Randy Bachman, commercial fisheries biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish […]
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Soggy Independence Day celebration
The annual Mount Ripinsky Run was cancelled due to safety concerns following a two-inch rainfall, but many other Independence Day festivities went on as planned in Haines. Paul Swift, a longtime mountaineer, cancelled the run early July 4 after heavy rain July 2-3. “I didn’t want people to go up there and race over all those slippery […]
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Juneau Road document looms
A 45-day public comment period on the revised Juneau access plan – including a public meeting in Haines – will happen this summer “for sure,” project coordinator Jason Bluhm of the state Department of Transportation told Haines Chamber of Commerce members Friday. Without the expected draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, Bluhm said he couldn’t get […]
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Chilkat Center lands $86K for upgrades
The Foundation for the Chilkat Center for the Arts last week secured an $86,000 grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to go toward the foundation’s “Light, Sound, Action!” upgrades project. The project will replace the theater’s lighting, sound and effects systems, as well as its curtains. It will also replace a sound system in the Chilkat […]
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Architect tours aging behemoth
National Park Service officials last week started Port Chilkoot Co. on a path toward restoring Fort Seward’s weather-beaten barracks building, following a two-day site visit in Haines. Although first steps will be small – work this summer will be limited to patching holes in the roof, capping chimneys and plumbing vents, reinstalling interior columns to […]