It’s a long-standing joke that the sun is a foreign object in Southeast Alaska and that its appearance makes residents cower. The joke came home last week when the Haines Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched following a call from a Main Street resident who mistook a sunrise for a “large fire on Third Avenue.” Fire […]
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Mary Price is home after six months spent in Anchorage recuperating from a broken hip and other complications. She’s “extremely happy to be home,” said daughter Cindy Clifton, home for a week with son Conner to visit Mary and help around the house. Mary’s daughter Nadine Price Schruefer is also in town, with Mary’s great-granddaughter […]
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Draft slump report cites surface water
A draft engineering report says the Haines Borough should address surface water flows on the Mount Ripinsky hillside in response to a ground slump that undermined a home, broke a sewer line and split Lutak Road in January. “A comprehensive review of hillside surficial drainage and flow characteristics should be conducted to determine if any changes are warranted to flow patterns,” […]
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Borough drops ‘disaster’ for slump
The Haines Borough Assembly last week rescinded a February disaster declaration for sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road. Borough manager Mark Earnest provided the assembly with an e-mail from Kerry Seifert, an emergency management specialist with Alaska’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, before the 5-0 vote. Member Joanne Waterman was absent. Seifert wrote “the slope has stopped or slowed movement […]
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Borough may drop disaster title for slump
The Haines Borough has been asked to rescind a request for a state emergency declaration related to sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road in January. Borough manager Mark Earnest told the assembly last week that damage so far hasn’t met the threshold for a state disaster declaration. A state declaration would make the municipality eligible to receive emergency mitigation funding. […]
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Season snow record set
If you notched a tree or took a photo of the high-snow mark five years ago, you may not believe it, but Haines has set an all-time record for a winter’s snowfall. The 6.7 inches of snow that fell in town March 1 raised the season’s accumulation above the previous season high, 309 inches, set […]
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Hiking Buddies
Annie Boyce and Windsor the dog pause on the north summit of Mount Ripinsky on Feb. 7. Boyce, Paul Swift and Windsor hiked up the north summit on a clear day. The couple said the snow-measure board at the tree-line topped out at 14 feet, comparable to the record-breaking winter of 2006-07.
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Senior Center grateful for support
I am one of many seniors who want to thank Ripinsky Rippers for their very generous donations to Haines Senior Citizens Center, Inc to help keep the Senior Center open. We also appreciate that the group rents the building twice a month for activities. I am a senior who depends on the convenient and sun-lit open space […]
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Stoli Antoanetova Lende and Nels Wolf Lynch were married Friday afternoon at the Chilkat Center, surrounded by family and friends. Don Nash served as marriage minister. Scott Pierce and Julia Scott performed “Swept Me Away,” a song by the Avett Brothers, and Stoli’s mom, Heather Lende, read a poem she composed for the couple. Stoli’s […]
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Andes climb aims to determine true height of grand peaks
Haines resident Chandler Kemp and a hiking buddy from Sitka are waiting to see if research they conducted a year ago resolves a decades-long debate over the height of two peaks in South America. In January 2011, Kemp, 21, and Sitkan Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, 22, climbed Ojos de Salado, a 22,608-foot mountain in the Andes that […]