10 Years Ago The Haines Borough’s first avalanche-oriented weather station is a couple weeks from going online. About 10 people climbed up Mount Ripinsky Saturday to assemble the solar-power station equipped with a rain gauge, anemometer and thermometer with an antenna setup to transmit information to the Haines Avalanche Information Center, where it is posted […]
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Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday August 28
Engineers said this week that the Lutak Dock project will likely be over budget, despite telling borough leaders earlier this week that they were “confident” in the borough’s chosen dock design fitting within budget. Now, they believe the price tag for the design will be more than the roughly $25 million in total funding for […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday August 21
Skagway will be indefinitely without state ferry service after cracks were discovered in its ferry terminal last week. Engineers first discovered cracks in concrete supports under the vehicle and passenger transfer bridges last Thursday. The dock was closed two days later, after the M/V Hubbard completed its Saturday docking at the facility, the state’s Department […]
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1916 fire was our warning
One hundred and ten years ago this summer, Haines was surrounded by fire. After a few dry months in the spring of 1916, on July 3rd, a fire broke out on the edge of town. Reports are mixed about who or where it started, but the blaze quickly became an inferno that scorched the entire […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted: Visits, anniversaries, record-setters and more
Haines High School hosted its annual activities awards assembly this week. It celebrated the more than 70 students who participated in activities throughout the year. Graduating senior Maddox Rogers’ Drama, Debate, and Forensics points were big news during the event. Rogers took seventh place on a locally maintained list of all-time top earners with the […]
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A year and a half after it burned down, Quickshop owner prepares to reopen
Inside the shell of Haines’ newest commercial building in early April, above a row of empty coolers, Merrick Bochart is in a scissor lift working on a 30-foot long painted mural. She’s putting highlights in the acrylic fur of a bear that looks out over a panorama of the Upper Lynn Canal. It’s the view […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday March 6
Twenty years ago, a small brown bear cub was picked up near Mud Bay. Wildlife biologists discovered it had been fed dog food at a local home. The orphaned cub eventually left Alaska, becoming part of a trio of rescued bears who would spend their lives together at a major zoo exhibit thousands of miles […]
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A new climber finds a path in Haines
The sunlight is fading over the Haines Highway and it’s bitterly cold, but Robert Reid is moving methodically up a chunk of ice near the airport. Ten feet above the Haines Highway, he chips away at the face of a slab until he can find a steady hold, then tests his weight on it over […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday Feb. 27
What started as a routine drive north for a new job nearly turned fatal for 25-year-old Haines resident Seth Waldo when his truck collided with an 18-wheeler near the Canadian border. His truck was so mangled that border officials told a passing long-haul trucker that the accident had been fatal. But Tristan Vogl didn’t take […]
Chilkat Valley Newsletter Friday Feb. 20
They crossed the finish line nearly an hour ahead of the rest of the field, but that doesn’t mean it was easy. In this week’s newsletter, we’re sharing a conversation with Kat to Koot winner Erik Stevens, who says the crust on this year’s snow was “one of the worst” he’s ever skied. He and […]