The agenda for last Thursday’s Skagway Assembly meeting was packed, as was Assembly Chambers. Citizens testified about poultry infrastructure, and asked to keep the trees, please. 

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The Lady Panthers will compete at the basketball state championship. As KHNS’s Melinda Munson reports, with a strong defense and accurate shooting skills, hopes are high for the Skagway School team.  And, Haines wrestlers traveled to Fairbanks over the weekend for the middle school State Tournament.  The team had three girls and three boys earn […]

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School administrators, firefighters and nurses gathered last month for a Stop-the-Bleed class in Haines.  Participants practiced lifesaving wound care skills, and discussed how the separate agencies would cooperate in case of a mass casualty incident in rural Alaska.  As KHNS’s Jenn Shelton reports, first responders had to apply a tourniquet to a bleeding mannequin in […]

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Employees of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in Sitka have threatened to organize, following a recent rollback of their benefits. Over 150 staff members – including doctors, nurses, and technicians – signed a letter on February 15 protesting unilateral changes to SEARHC’s paid leave policy. The conflict flared after the organization, which serves communities […]

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Skagway School will send a veteran contender to the state’s Poetry Out Loud finals in early March. Freshman Mina Yee will compete for the second time, with a one in eight chance of winning. KHNS reporter Melinda Munson interviewed the performer.

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The Haines Borough has suffered a decade-long drought of Girl Scouts, which ended this winter when three local moms started a new troop.  Their Daisies are poised to let a truckload of Girl Scout cookies rain down on the valley this March.

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Lutak Dock conversations dominated Tuesday’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting.  Last week the U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration delivered a review of the project.  It gave the borough two options on how to move the project forward.  Both options attempt to rectify the mismanagement of $10 million of federal funds that were spent on the […]

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Even though Haines has a population of just under 2,000, it has a hospice program to help care for the dying in town]. Hospice of Haines hosted a winter series called Taking Care.  It included over a dozen events – Movie Nights, TaiChi for caregivers, Forest Healing Therapy and the Death Cafe. As KHNS’ Jenn […]

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Sportfishermen and women have been lucky this February, catching king salmon in and around Portage Cove near downtown Haines.  The chinook “shore huggers” are not part of a salmon run, but instead hang out locally as part of a historical winter rearing. The older, local fishermen are delighted to see the kings return to Haines’ […]

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Housing dominated much of Skagway’s last assembly meeting as three members were appointed to the ad hoc housing committee. As KHNS’s Melinda Munson reports, Assemblymember Orion Hanson tried to get approval for staff to draft a RFP for high density housing at the former clinic site, to include senior housing.  And the Haines Middle School […]

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