About 25 people enjoyed clear skies on the community hike up Mount Ripinsky Sunday. Organized by the Sheldon Museum, the hike was led by veteran mountaineer Paul Swift and Scott Pearce. Swift estimates that he’s done the route more than 300 times in the past 44 years. Nearly everyone in the group reached the summit, […]
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Soggy Independence Day celebration
The annual Mount Ripinsky Run was cancelled due to safety concerns following a two-inch rainfall, but many other Independence Day festivities went on as planned in Haines. Paul Swift, a longtime mountaineer, cancelled the run early July 4 after heavy rain July 2-3. “I didn’t want people to go up there and race over all those slippery […]
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Haines High School’s class of 2014 celebrated with friends and family at Dalton City after graduation ceremonies. Christy Tengs Fowler performed a humorous “graduation rap” for graduate son Chevy Fowler. Immediately afterward, graduates were surprised by a “flash mom” dance to Michael Franti’s “Say Hey (I Love You).” At least 20 moms jumped in, including Fabiemme Paes, mom of Belgian […]
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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 […]
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About $6,500 was raised for George Gates Haddock and family at Friday’s spaghetti dinner and auction at the American Legion Hall organized by the Uglys of Haines. Haddock is being treated at St. Elias Specialty Hospital in Anchorage for cancer of the lymph glands. Wife Susan and daughters Miranda and Marissa are nearby. Chuck Mitman […]
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State, borough crews battle local flooding
Heavy rains that fell on a record December snowfall Tuesday swamped streets and roads and swelled a creek that flooded a Beach Road home. “(Water) was coming in the side door and going out the front door” at the home of Dick and Carol Flegel, said Haines fire chief Scott Bradford. In a wind-driven, slushy […]
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Assembly designates beach non-motorized
The one-mile stretch of Chilkat River beach running from River Road to Carr’s Cove is officially closed to motorized use, including ATVs and snow machines. The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to zone the beach as non-motorized after hearing dozens of comments from the public supporting the designation. Assembly members George Campbell and Jerry Lapp were opposed. Nearly 20 residents […]
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Warm weather ties records downtown
Snow in town by Halloween – at least a dusting – is shorthand for when winter starts in the Chilkat Valley. On Monday, not even the 3,600-foot-high summit of Mount Ripinsky was showing a dusting. With an average downtown temperature of 40 degrees for the week ending Oct. 28, a white Halloween looked unlikely. “The temperature is […]
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Prohibit ATVs on popular beach?
The Haines Borough Planning Commission is recommending the assembly vote to prohibit motorized recreation – including ATVs and snowmachines – along roughly 9,000 feet of Chilkat River beaches. The stretch of beach is along Mud Bay Road, stretching from River Road to Carr’s Cove. The assembly will take up the commission’s recommended ordinance at its Tuesday meeting. Commission chair […]
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Faster service thrills cell phone users
The wait is over. As of Monday, AT&T customers in Haines have seen faster service on their cell phones in the form of 3G and 4G networks. Haines residents with AT&T contracts have griped for years about painfully slow Internet service on their cell phones and the company’s repeated promises to upgrade area towers to […]