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Fish & Game Advisory Committee organizes, weighs in on Gov’s plan to axe eagle preserve council

The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee met recently to fill six open seats, in Haines, Skagway, and Klukwan as well as two undesignated ones. The advisory committee is a group of community members who meet a few times a year on fish and game management issues. After elections, the committee spent much […]

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2023 Year in review

From massive infrastructure projects and property tax assessment controversies to big developments in tribal affairs, 2023 has been a full news year for the Chilkat Valley. Here is a brief summary of some of the developments on key issues affecting Haines residents. Tribal affairs Local tribes advanced several initiatives throughout 2023 ranging from Tlingit-language street […]

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Wrestlers brave snowy highways, eight foot seas for historic state performance

The music blared and about two dozen people cheered as seven young men walked up the slippery ramp from an Allen Marine boat in the Small Boat Harbor to the parking lot Monday morning in freezing temperatures. The occasion: the return of the Glacier Bears wrestling team from a monumental showing at the state championship […]

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Deliah Kay Nash entered the world at Bartlett Hospital in Juneau at 4:18 a.m. on Nov. 1 to CaSandra Smith and Adrian Nash. Deliah weighed eight pounds and two ounces, and measured 20.5 inches. She joins four-year-old sister Mijah. Grandmother Nancy Nash arrived in Juneau just in time for the delivery of her third grandchild. Grandparents include Nancy’s husband Dwight Nash and Sally Garton of Haines. More than […]

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Gloria Jill Armstrong-Kosinski was born Jan. 4 to Sophia Armstrong and Reilly Kosinski at Anchorage’s Providence Hospital. She weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz. and measured 19 inches. Gloria is named after Reilly’s mother. Gloria’s sister Gwendolyn, 4, is a huge help changing diapers, mom reports. The family is staying with Glenn and Juliana Armstrong and Chris and Carol Kosinski in Anchorage before returning to Haines. Arlo Paul Baarson was born […]

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Jerrie Clarke has made trips to Mexico, New Orleans, and Branson, Mo. since retiring in January from the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nev. The former Haines Sheldon Museum director was in town this week, visiting friends and getting her first glimpse of the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center while husband Dan Gagnon was making a road trip from […]

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Christina Baskaya is helping organize a Haines High School class of 1997 reunion. Events will include a Chilkoot Lake picnic, tour of the Haines School and catered salmon buffet dinner 6 p.m. Saturday at Fort Seward Lodge. All Haines High School graduates and teachers are invited. Reach Christina for more details. Reservations, required for dinner, can be made […]

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There will be a funeral for longtime resident Bruce Gilbert Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Haines Presbyterian Church. Bruce died Tuesday at home. He was 86 and had been in declining health. There will be a full obituary in next week’s CVN. Landon McLaughlin was born at 1:52 p.m. Aug. 15 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital to Kaitlin […]

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Co-owners Heather Shade and Sean Copeland celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Port Chilkoot Distillery with tours of the distilling plant, a complimentary table of charcuterie and crudité, and liquor samples from the keg Friday. Distiller Dave Thomas made a homemade bread pudding with a bourbon sauce topping. The nibbles were created by mixologist Marissa Mott, a veteran of fine dining restaurants in […]