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Skagway elders have more opportunity to socialize this winter now that senior lunches have resumed, but a proposed municipal senior-center facility is still on hold because it fails to meet ADA standards.  On a Tuesday afternoon, Skagway seniors were in high spirits...

While Skagway typically welcomes visitors wholeheartedly, a Northern Fur Seal’s visits have complicated the construction of the borough’s ore dock because of its federal status as a protected species.   The Ore Dock Redevelopment Project is expected to be completed on...

Free speech gorillas?  Skin as thick as a rhino?  Just take it like a duck?  Animal metaphors ran wild Tuesday night at the borough assembly's committee meeting on government affairs. Public officials and community members engaged in a spirited debate about creating a...

Two CIA tribal women have been chosen for the third and final year of the Chilkoot Indian Association’s Traditional Arts Apprentice-Mentor Program.  Over the next nine months the apprentices will work with an elder as they complete work on two under-represented art...

The Haines Pool has a new instructor.  Patty Morgan has been teaching children to swim for decades. Her latest class started in the fall and teaches infants and toddlers to swim in a group class.  Tot Time teaches life-saving water skills to non-swimmers and gives...

Skagway will open its second retail marijuana store this spring.  The Skagway Borough Assembly voted unanimously to approve the application for Boom Town Buds at last week’s meeting. Also in the meeting, Mayor Sam Bass introduced a new concept that would make...

A group of Haines residents has taken up the task of updating the local property tax assessment process. They are holding meetings and drafting recommendations for the Haines Borough Assembly. It is a slow, complicated process, and the frustrations that grew from last...

The Haines Borough is still without a Police Chief.  Borough Manager Annette Kreitzer looks to hire internally before advertising for the position.  She is currently drafting a contract to present to Interim Police Chief Josh Dryden.  If the contract is successfully...

The Haines High School Basketball teams faced Metlakatla at home over the weekend.  Skagway basketball teams head to Petersburg this weekend and Haines heads to Wrangell. The Haines girls basketball team lost 30-56 to Metlakatla at home on Friday.  Coach Coleman...

The Haines Dolphins swim team held their first time trial of the year on Saturday. Eighteen swimmers competed and as many volunteers showed up at the Haines Pool to make the event possible.  Results were submitted to the USA Swimming database, where the athletes can...