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Volunteers offer to pick fruit for free to avoid attracting bears
A group of nonprofits in Haines are offering to help residents pick fruit from their trees for free. The new initiative aims to help the community take advantage of locally grown fruit while removing a possible bear attractant. Haines has seen an increase in reports...
Community gardeners request COVID-19 relief funds to promote food security
Recently a group of volunteers in Haines planted a garden at the Mosquito Lake Community Center in an effort to promote food security. Now they are asking the borough to provide more federal pandemic relief funds to expand the project. Aspiring young farm to table...
Skagway to use sales tax savings to fund small business grants program
Skagway’s Assembly voted to pay for the local COVID-19 response with federal relief dollars and fund small business grants from municipal savings. The money has changed, but the services haven’t. At Thursday’s meeting, the Skagway assembly voted to use $1.4 million...
Skagway’s year-round childcare providers lose municipal funding
The Municipality of Skagway updated its policy for community funding grants last year. Those changes are taking effect now. And it has some private childcare providers saying they got left behind. Skagway’s Assembly voted to change eligibility for community grants...
Haines businesses will have another chance to apply for CARES Act funding
Haines businesses will have another chance to apply for CARES Act funding, the biomass project is officially terminated, and SEARHC will provide COVID-19 testing for asymptomatic travelers to Haines. The Haines Borough Assembly voted to reopen the application window...
Haines woman charged with arson and assault after local art gallery catches fire
A 50-year-old Haines woman suspected of a string of arsons while on hallucinogenic mushrooms is in custody Wednesday. The fires damaged an art gallery and a private home. Haines resident Tresham Gregg was nearly asleep when he learned that his art space, the Sea Wolf...
National Park Service superintendent leaves Skagway for research position in Montana
The superintendent of Klondike Goldrush National Historical Park is leaving Skagway this month. Jason Taylor will serve as the new director for the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute in Missoula, Montana. He explained that the collaborative scientific body...
Chilkoot Indian Association assists local tribal members using CARES Act funds
Chilkoot Indian Association has begun using federal dollars to assist tribal members who face hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tribe will put the first disbursement of CARES Act funds towards members’ utility bills and food security. Congress set...
SEARHC to offer weekend asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in Haines starting July 18
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) announced last week that it would be expanding the availability of COVID-19 testing at its clinics. Free tests will be available on the weekends to anyone, regardless of whether they have symptoms of the illness. ...
What’s the water quality in Alaska harbors like without cruise ship traffic? State scientists will find out this summer.
It’s a relatively quiet summer on Alaska waters, since COVID-19 mostly cancelled the cruise ship season and limited tourism. But this hiatus is an opening for scientists to gather water quality data in harbors across the state. It’s flat calm on Portage Cove in...