Editor’s note: This year the Chilkat Valley News partnered with KHNS on its election coverage in addition to hosting two candidate forums. A playlist of these profiles, as they are posted, can be found here. This interview transcript has been edited for clarity and grammar. Rashah Mcchesney: George Campbell, thank you so much for joining me. […]
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Watch: An interview with Zeke Frank, candidate for planning commission
Editor’s note: This year the Chilkat Valley News partnered with KHNS on its election coverage in addition to hosting two candidate forums. A playlist of these profiles, as they are posted, can be found here. This interview transcript has been edited for clarity and grammar. Rashah McChesney: Zeke Frank, welcome. Hello. Zeke Frank: Thanks, Rashah. Good […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday September 25
Sept. 25, 2026 / This week from the CVN Built with Newsletter Glue. If you’d no longer like to receive emails from the Chilkat Valley News, you can unsubscribe here.
Posted inLocal News, 2026 Haines Borough Election
Chilkat Valley News and KHNS to host candidate forum
The Chilkat Valley News and KHNS will host a live candidate forum at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the Chilkat Center. Moderators Rashah McChesney and Avery Ellfeldt will question four candidates for two open positions on the assembly and two candidates vying for the mayor’s seat. You also can tune into KHNS 102.3 in Haines […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This Week in History: workshops, sports and chain-gangs
10 Years Ago Haines’ long-dormant Waterfront Aesthetics committee will take its first crack to brainstorm how the Haines Borough should upgrade the uplands portion of the Small Boat Harbor. Whatever the aesthetics committee recommends will then go to the Haines planning commission – a body that has long felt it has been left out of […]
Posted inLocal News
Assembly Briefs: childcare recognition, Four Winds Resource Center, new dock info, and more
During the Sept. 22 assembly meeting, assembly members discussed the Lutak Dock, Four Winds Resource Center’s continued rental of a borough building and more. Changing diapers for 29 years Kicking off his mayor’s report, Tom Morphet read a proclamation honoring Haines resident Kim Larson. Larson has provided childcare in Haines for the last 29 years, […]
Posted inLocal News
No electioneering says borough clerk after flier found in election booth
Dave Thomas walked into an election booth in the borough building to vote early on Tuesday and found a folded Citizens for Haines flier with a list of issues and candidates to vote for left inside. He crumpled it up and shoved it in his pocket, then finished voting and left the building. It wasn’t […]
Posted inLocal News, 2026 Haines Borough Election
Haines mulls rolling back its boosted senior and veteran property tax exemption
Haines seniors saw major savings in 2025 after voters doubled a property tax exemption for seniors and disabled veterans. Now that exemption could change again, but in the opposite direction. The state of Alaska requires all municipalities to exempt the first $150,000 in value on eligible primary residences from property taxes. In 2024, Haines voters […]
Posted inSoutheast News
Five people seeking to be Tlingit and Haida’s president make their cases on eve of election
Five people seeking to be elected president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska on Thursday made their cases Wednesday to the delegates who will be casting votes during this week’s Tribal Assembly. Four challengers — Shkaadul.aat Lisa Gassman, Jáx Kóoste Tasha Hotch, Melissa Kookesh and Ku.seen Jacqueline Pata […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
An elected planning commission allows voters to decide who is qualified to plan
The Vote: Appointing vs Electing Planners, simplified. First: unlike what some have claimed, appointees are no more or less qualified than the ones we elect. The difference is in who gets to determine those qualifications, and why. When a mayor appoints, it is often like-minded individuals who will be subservient to and promote his or […]