Lutak residents fired up woodstoves, melted snow and hunkered down Saturday when a hard-to-reach break in a main transmission line left their neighborhood without power for nearly 24 hours. “It was the longest power outage I’ve experienced here for at least 10 years,” said Lutak Road resident Al Badgley. The main outage occurred at 2:40 p.m. Saturday […]
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Fort Seward’s new art piece aims to slow sands of time
One of Haines’ newest public art pieces is an interactive work that combines glass, steel, stone and even the contemplative sands of time. The piece, called “Time Out,” was unveiled last week at the Fort Seward Sculpture Garden, the eclectic outdoor art space in the old barracks foundation at the decommissioned fort. The concept is […]
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Mountaintop weather station erected near 20 Mile
A weather station mounted on Mount Ripinsky last month is the second planted on local peaks in the past two months. A sophisticated, $175,000 station went up near 20.5 Mile Haines Highway in August, a high-elevation station aimed at monitoring rainfall and soil temperatures. It’s the first of its kind in Southeast Alaska. Information it provides – […]
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School-sanctioned hooky gets students outdoors
Haines High School students didn’t go to class Tuesday afternoon—and some of their teachers came with them. The school-sanctioned hooky was part of the high school’s fourth annual Extreme Adventure Day, an event where classes are canceled and students participate in outdoor activities instead. Lilly Boron, who teaches social studies, Spanish and cooking at the […]
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Police Report
Monday, Jan. 13 A caller reported a woman was sending him offensive text messages containing profanity and insults. Investigation is ongoing. A person reported snow melt on Beach Road causing a traffic hazard. State road crews were advised. A woman reported being hacked remotely on her computer. She clicked a link in an email from […]
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Glacier Bear runners to start season in Petersburg
The Haines Glacier Bears cross-country running team will run in Petersburg Saturday for a season opening invitational meet with area schools. Head coach Keri Ewing said he is excited to arrive in Petersburg and get the season started. Assistant coaches Chandler Kemp and Alixanne Goodman are encouraged by what they have seen so far. “I’m […]
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Public Works chief Borders retires
It’s not yet 5 a.m. Sunday, the final day of the Southeast Alaska State Fair. There are no cars on the roads. Except for laughter and the sound of a trumpet on Second Avenue, the town is quiet. Saturday night partiers dance in the street in front of the Pioneer Bar. The last begin to […]
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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 […]
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Cleanup at 7 Mile at $800K
The cost of cleanup at an unsanctioned rifle range at 7 Mile has reached $800,000 and will likely continue into next year, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management cleanup official said this week. Larry Beck, environmental protection specialist for BLM, was in town this week for continuing work at the site, where contractor Northwind, Inc. […]
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Rogers, Kemp win 4th events
Pounding foundation stakes in Skagway may have given him the edge in the Fourth of July spike-driving competition, carpenter Manual Rogers of Haines said this week. Rogers, who is helping build Skagway’s new public safety building, won the competition on the afternoon’s very last spike, driving it in 5.4 seconds. Winning, Rogers said, requires hitting […]