Kai Dixon moved from Haines back to Wasilla with his family at the end of summer 2020 and has transitioned his high school athletic career in grand fashion. Kai is one of the team captains and on the starting front line for the hockey team Colony Knights, and scored a natural hat trick in his first […]
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Kai Dixon moved from Haines back to Wasilla with his family at the end of summer 2020 and has transitioned his high school athletic career in grand fashion. Kai is one of the team captains and on the starting front line for the hockey team Colony Knights, and scored a natural hat trick in his […]
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Southeast State Fair plans for summer fair
Brewfest hinges on border status The Southeast Alaska State Fair board voted unanimously last week to hold some version of a fair this summer along with other events typically organized by the organization. Fair spokesperson Amanda Randles said factors such as the U.S.-Canada border status and quarantine requirements will determine the scope of the event. […]
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Damage from December storms results in $1.5 million decline in property value
Assessed property value in the borough decreased, at least temporarily, by more than $1.5 million in the wake of the early December storms, according to a recent Haines Borough report. The long-term market value could also be impacted, particularly in neighborhoods identified by geologists as areas of concern, although it’s too soon to say for sure, according […]
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Lauren Rutland is the new Haines Dolphins swim coach. She and husband Ryan Rutland moved to Haines from outside Saginaw, Texas, with their three dogs, two cats and two children, Carson, 5, and Archer, 4. Ryan was recently hired as a Haines Borough Police Department officer. Before moving to Haines, Lauren was doing graphic design work in […]
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This week in history
Jan. 1971 The usually booming local timber industry is in the throes of problems. Friday evening the Schnabel Lumber Co. shut down its veneer plant and chipper, and eliminated the night shift at the sawmill, leaving only one day shift at the mill. Alaska Forest Products mill has been closed for several weeks. According to […]
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Nora Grace Taylor was born on Dec. 10 in Hong Kong to Barry Taylor and Fransiska Sukarni. Nora was 8 pounds 4 ounces. Fransiska is from Sumatra, Indonesia and Barry is a captain for Atlas Air. When Barry isn’t flying cargo around the world he splits his time between Haines and Cape Coral, Florida. Paternal […]
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Isabella Frost Cheney was born 5:03 a.m. March 7 at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital to parents Kathryn and Ted Cheney. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and measured 19.75 inches. Big brother is Winter Cheney, 3. Kathryn said their new addition is quiet and simple. She hopes she will be crawling in time for the Southeast Alaska State Fair’s Diaper Derby, which Winter […]
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Sue Libenson this week attended the State Department-sponsored Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) conference in Anchorage. Libenson watched President Barack Obama deliver a speech on climate change at the Dena’ina Center. Other national and international figures spoke as well, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “It was exciting to see the president, […]
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EOC opens southernmost part of Beach Road
Residents at the southernmost end of Beach Road can return home after state geologists downgraded the area from a mandatory evacuation zone to a site to “monitor for future concern.” The determination was made based on computer modeling of potential slide paths if the fractured rock at the top of the Beach Road slide area […]