The Ducks Unlimited “Wall of Guns” fundraiser Aug. 23 netted about $13,000, said Haines chapter chairperson Jamie Knudsen. A name was picked from every 50 tickets sold. Winners throughout the evening then chose a gun from the wall, which included over 30 guns. Twelve guns were won from the wall. Patty Brown, Christy Tengs Fowler, Jacque […]
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Duly Noted
Dave Pahl’s Hammer Museum is one of 49 roadside attractions nationwide featured in a new board game, “Zillionaires Road Trip USA.” The game is akin to Monopoly, as players “bid, bluff and buy up America’s legendary roadside attractions.” Other attractions include Alaska’s Igloo Hotel in Cantwell, London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and Cadillac Ranch in […]
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Dave Pahl’s Hammer Museum is one of 49 roadside attractions nationwide featured in a new board game, “Zillionaires Road Trip USA.” The game is akin to Monopoly, as players “bid, bluff and buy up America’s legendary roadside attractions.” Other attractions include Alaska’s Igloo Hotel in Cantwell, London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona and Cadillac Ranch […]
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Does it really rain less at the airport?
If you compare recent monthly precipitation totals at the Haines Airport weather station with data from the townsite, you’ll see that it rains and snows significantly less at the airport, a couple miles away. But does it? As of Monday, it had rained 12.5 inches in town this month, but only 8.8 inches at the […]
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Duly Noted
Former resident Jessie Babette Miller of San Francisco said she was so surprised to win the Southeast Alaska State Fair’s drawing for a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, she was hardly able to move when her name was called Sunday. “It’s still overwhelming. I still can’t believe it,” she said. The truck will replace her Volkswagen Passat that […]
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Ultra-marathoner reflects on hardest endurance races of life
“I am 150k into the 330k challenge. It’s trying to kill me but I am not done,” Haines resident Jennifer Hughes texted the CVN last month, hunkered down in the Italian Alps during the Tor de Géants, or “Tour of Giants,” a notoriously difficult mountain race. A few days later, a blizzard struck while Hughes […]
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Six Candidates Running for Assembly
The following is a condensed version of CVN interviews with candidates for Haines Borough Assembly: Ben Aultman-Moore, 30, Eric Holle, 72, Margarette Jones, 27, Bill Jurewitz, 76, Jerry Lapp, 73, and Gabe Thomas, 43. The six candidates are running for three open seats. Election day is Tuesday, Oct. 4. Polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at […]
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Duly Noted
A website through CaringBridge has been set up for Song Nash, who is receiving treatment for stomach cancer in Seattle, said wife Amy Nash. CaringBridge is an organization that offers personalized websites to individuals in need of medical treatment. For updates on Song’s condition, go to http://www.caringbridge.org and type in the name “Song Nash.” Visitors also can post messages […]
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Cross-country fundraiser draws 15 rugged runners
Breaking through fog, rain and gusts up to 30 mph, Garrett Montgomery handily won the third running of the Takshanuk Ridge Run Saturday, breaking his own record on the 11.5-race up, along and down Mount Ripinsky in 2:38. Husband and wife Liam Cassidy and Tracy Wirak-Cassidy finished second and third, respectively, in 3:01 and 3:31. The event […]
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Haines students Dylan Chapell, Brennan Palmieri, Mark Davis, Yzella Miramontes, and Hannah and Haley Boron attended the two-week Sitka Fine Arts Camp. In addition to watching counselors’ performances, they attended daily classes, which began at 8 a.m. The students performed and took concert band, jazz band and choir. Dylan took a stilts class and Brennan took an experimental photography class, in […]