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Letter to the Editor: It’s time to hire a reliable, local fire chief - Chilkat Valley News
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Letter to the Editor: It’s time to hire a reliable, local fire chief - Chilkat Valley News

Letter to the Editor I am an 18-year year-round resident of Haines and am concerned after reading the June 26, 2025, Chilkat Valley News article regarding the upcoming hiring of a Haines fire chief.The out-of-state applicants for our public official positions rarely work out, if they even show up. We don’t know them, usually. They often resign before too long, because of one reason or another. I have lived across the street from Brian and Jackie…Read Article
Letter to the Editor: Keep the Chilkat Valley pristine for generations to come - Chilkat Valley News
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Letter to the Editor: Keep the Chilkat Valley pristine for generations to come - Chilkat Valley News

Letter to the Editor Want to know the biggest draw for raising kids in the Chilkat Valley? We’ll give you a hint: it’s not the ease of modern amenities. We are raising our kids here because it is unlike any other place. It’s a place where we can escape into nature with an infant or toddler on our backs, giving them the opportunity to witness a landscape that so many travel great distances to experience before they’re even old enough to walk. It’…Read Article
Stuck in traffic? Here's what everyone else is doing - Chilkat Valley News
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Stuck in traffic? Here's what everyone else is doing - Chilkat Valley News

Mailman Mark Finley eats his chips and salsa Tuesday, July 2, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) It’s not so common these days to have a minute to stop, to listen, to sit. That is, unless you’re driving out the highway this summer, in which case it’s quite common to not just have a minute, but 10, 15, or 25 minutes, all without cell service.  As another summer of highway construction goes by, drivers are figuring out how to pass that tim…Read Article

Grocery store stocks returning to normal after June cyberattack - Chilkat Valley News

New signs hang in Howsers IGA, showing viewers how to pronounce the Tlingít words for the household items and groceries they’re buying. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) A June cyberattack on a major grocery distributor affected three Haines grocers, resulting in shortages and empty shelves that are only this week filling back up. The town’s major grocery stores, Howser’s IGA, Olerud’s and Mountain Market, all order at least a portion of th…Haines · HainesRead Article

Guide remembered for ‘ love in her heart for the river’ and the people she cared about - Chilkat Valley News

(Courtesy/Ava Lenox) Evie Hagan, a river guide who came to Haines for the summer to work for Alaska Mountain Guides, was involved in fatal rafting accident in Canada. Just over a week ago, a group of employees from Alaska Mountain Guides went on a guides-only rafting trip down the Blanchard and Tatshenshini rivers.  One of the four rafts flipped and longtime whitewater guide Marin Pitt died.  Evie Hagan, 21, was also in the boat that flipped. Ha…Haines · HainesRead Article

State agencies raid Kroschel’s wildlife facility, seizing animals and serving a search warrant - Chilkat Valley News

A state trooper rides into the Kroschel Films Wildlife Facility where law enforcement are serving a search warrant while Fish and Game staff seize animals housed in the Mosquito Lake facility. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) State Troopers and Alaska Fish and Game staff raided a wildlife facility in Mosquito Lake on Thursday, serving both a warrant to its owner and seizing animals at the center of a long-running dispute over the safety of t…Haines · HainesRead Article

Alaska-Based River Guide Dies on Rafting Trip Near B.C.-Yukon Border

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Yukon's coroner says that 33-year-old Marin Elizabeth Pitt, an experienced river guide in Haines, Alaska, died last weekend while out on a group excursion down the Blanchard and Tatshenshini Rivers.Yukon · YukonSee the Story

Cemetery caretakers, Takshanuk in dispute over Sawmill Road parcel - Chilkat Valley News

The new recycling facility and a gravel driveway that is the subject of an easement dispute, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) A boundary conflict between neighbors on Sawmill Road exploded into the open last week, threatening the future of a community composting facility, and, some say, the future of the borough-owned Jones Point Cemetery. The composting facility, built by local non-profit Takshanuk Watershed Council…Haines · HainesRead Article

President’s cronies are the real ‘useful idiots’ - Chilkat Valley News

I’m not fond of the term “useful idiots,” however, I understand the concept.  A good example is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chosen to lead the federal health department. We now have a slow response to historic measles outbreaks that leave families to deal with huge medical bills and lifelong consequences.  Then there is the appointment of Pete Hegseth, a FOX news commentator, to head the federal Defense Department. What can I say about Elon Musk, rep…Haines · HainesRead Article

Duly Noted: Barbecue, biking, bible, and more - Chilkat Valley News

A cyclist rides in Saturday’s KCIBR, June 21, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News) New Hope Fellowship Church celebrated Father’s Day with a barbeque and softball game. Heather Rogers grilled burgers and hot dogs to perfection. The Mason family brought a honey dandelion cake that was not to be outdone by the blueberry pie or the strawberry-rhubarb crisp. The softball game featured Riley Hall, Jim Stickler and Sage Thomas as rotating pitche…Father's Day · HainesRead Article

Assembly Briefs: A Lutak Dock redesign and elected official removal - Chilkat Valley News

Assembly member Craig Loomis reads information during an assembly meeting, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Lutak Dock redesign The borough has turned over a new page in the Lutak Dock saga, with litigation officially off the table for now, and a new design proposal back on it.  Earlier this spring, the borough was set to begin mediation with dock contractor Turnagain Marine. But in May, borough officials announced they had agreed with Turnagain to pause…Haines · HainesRead Article

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