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I would like to respond to Sharon Resnick’s letter from last week. Since I also worked in Emergency Logistics under Sylvia Heinz and Brenda...

Looks as if Big Tech is wishing that America would be the next USSR and that they will be the next Pravda. Look it up if you don’t understand. Some...

Many displaced residents from the Beach Road landslide in Haines are trying to get a controlled access road built across the slide so that they can...

I am aware that this letter will probably not make it much further than the Haines area, but hopefully it will find its way into the hands of even a...

I’m a displaced resident on Beach Road.  We’re trying to cope with the landslide’s aftermath.  We realize there are different perspectives on...

Words seem immeasurable to the gratitude we feel for this town. The support, love, compassionate empathy and listening ear that was gifted during...

The most important point defined by the event on Beach Road is “we live in an area where landslides happen.” The situation causing the slide had...

Brenda Josephson lost her seat on the borough assembly because many of us who voted for her the first time around were appalled by her misuse of...

Thank you Jim Stanford and Travis Russell for setting ski tracks at 25 Mile.  Besides volunteering time and gas to set track, Jim also clears a path...

The Haines Senior Center would like to thank a few people that helped make the holidays extra special for the seniors of Haines. We were lucky to...

There are definitely people in our town in need of financial help during these times.  There are also those of us fortunate enough to have very...

So now you see what four years of denial have brought. You supported this demagogue, you enabled this demagogue, you embolden this demagogue, you...

My compliments to the Haines Borough Assembly, the Personnel Committee, and the mayor for doing a thorough job in finding the best borough manager...

Before our local government commits our community to jumping into bed with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to build a...

You know? I’m kicking back by the fire having a few thoughts about folk literature that I suspect might be worth sharing with CVN readers. A...

I understand that our dim-witted governor has proposed closing the DMV office in Haines, which incidentally, is only open part-time. He proposes we...

Christmas: the very thought connotes giving, loving thoughts, family togetherness, sharing and joyous celebration. From whence does it come? Let us...

I have never felt so much pride in, so much compassion for, or so much love for a community as I have felt in the last two weeks. My faith in...

It is our creek that was responsible for the “7 Mile Slide” on the Haines Highway. All of the boulders and rock debris made it to the road via...

For Christmas this year I got: • A fancy hotel room at the Aspen for a week; • Dozens of new friends;  • A different person/restaurant made me...

I am worried about the folks who have been evacuated from their homes on Beach Road, unable to return due to the instability of the mountain above...

What is happening across the globe right now is not the “Great Reset,” but “The Great Leap Forward” once implemented in “well meaning” soc...

On Dec. 21 a rare astronomical event, one replete with literary significance, will be visible for the first time in 800 years. A conjunction between...

I am moved each time I hear mayor Douglas Olerud speak at the recent daily emergency briefings. I was especially moved hearing him interact with...

When Young Road collapsed last week, an alarming surge of water hit my house. While vainly trying to shovel the flow away from the house, my neighbor...