“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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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 […]
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Fourth annual Takshanuk Ridge Run set for Saturday
The annual Takshanuk Ridge Run was born about five years ago when residents Jordan Baumgartner and Adam McMahon were chatting about long-distance mountain runs held in bigger cities and wondering why one shouldn’t be held in Haines. Also, “running on pavement is boring and it hurts your knees,” Baumgartner explained this week. The fourth running […]
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Montgomery wins inaugural 4th of July Harbor to Harbor run
Garrett Montgomery won the first-ever Fourth of July Harbor to Harbor Mountain Run, overcoming nine miles from Letnikof Cove, up Mount Riley and down to the downtown boat harbor in about an hour and a half. Haines Huts and Trails sponsored the event. A total of 16 racers included people from Anchorage, Virginia, Georgia, California, […]
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Celebration next week for life of David Simmons
Friends and family members of the late David Simmons will gather in Haines July 15-17 to celebrate his life. Simmons had planned to convene his far-flung friends and family members – many of whom had never seen his new home – in Alaska for his 30th birthday party in August 2020. More than 100 people […]
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High school students come to Haines from around the country
Ten exceptional high school students from around the country will converge on Haines for a week beginning Sunday as part of a college-credit course led by resident Natalie Dawson. The students are participants in the Student Diplomacy Corps, a nomination-based and scholarship-funded program that aims to prepare underserved – but remarkably accomplished — high school […]
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Mountain guide runs 56 hours and wins endurance race
Haines mountain guide Harry Subertas last week won a 200-mile endurance run – one of the country’s longest – around Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border. Overcoming steep terrain, a snowstorm and sleep deprivation, Subertas ran to a first-place finish in just shy of two and a half days. The race’s silver medalist, Mike Groenewegen, crossed […]