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Haines Girls win Don Hather Basketball Tournament
The Haines girls’ basketball team took first place over the weekend at the Don Hather Basketball Tournament in Skagway. The Haines boys finished in second place. Skagway’s girls and boys’ teams took third and fourth places, respectively. The...

Skagway Local Runs His Own Race
When storms over the New Year prevented a Skagway teacher from traveling to run a marathon he created his own. Skagway teacher Cody Burnham intended to start the New Year off with a visit to family in Texas and his first marathon. He trained for 16 weeks. ...

Soot and foul odor spreads across Skagway
Police are investigating a spike in air pollution that occurred recently in Skagway. They have found the cause of pollution but are waiting for test results from the Department of Environmental Conservation before moving forward. On Dec. 23, Skagway residents...

Skagway mayor reinstates land acknowledgement at assembly meetings
After consulting with the Skagway Traditional Council, Mayor Sam Bass has settled on the wording for the Land Acknowledgment Statement that will be read at the beginning of each meeting. When Skagway Mayor Sam Bass took office, he stopped reading the...

Prodigal moose returns to wildlife center for Christmas
This fall, forty-eight hours before hunting season started, a moose escaped from a Haines wildlife center. But, two days before Christmas, he returned back to the center unharmed. Two days before this fall’s moose hunting season opener, the...

FEMA officially denies funding for Porcupine road work
On December 22, FEMA issued a formal letter to the Haines Borough, explaining in detail their decision to terminate funding for repairs to Porcupine Road. The agency's determination leaves Haines Borough responsible for more than one million dollars in work...

Normal traffic on Haines highway to resume
Work on the rockslide at 15 miles Haines highway is wrapping up. Open traffic is expected to resume in the coming days. Traffic has been constrained on the Haines highway since rockslides destroyed a passing car and obstructed the road just before...

Skagway school library expands access
A Skagway high school Senior who is blind will now have better access to library materials after a fourth grader, who is also visually impaired, lobbied the Skagway School Board to stock its library with braille books. Braille books are large and...

Unauthorized steel purchase for dock provokes crisis of confidence in borough
Haines elected officials recently learned that the contractor in charge of rebuilding the Lutak dock has purchased $10M worth of steel for the project. This commitment to a design that newly elected leaders had expressed interest in changing surprised and...

Skagway Assembly discusses 9-1-1 down time and rental woes
Last Thursday’s Skagway Borough Assembly meeting spent an extended amount of time on two discussion items: 911 glitches and a worsening housing crisis. According to Police Chief Jerry Reddick, there have been nearly a dozen 9-1-1 outages in the past year,...
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