Alaska State Trooper Dispatches:
HAINES–Take cub brown bear
On 9-16-11, Gregg A. Johnson, age 60 of Haines was cited by Wildlife Troopers for taking a cub grizzly bear that was accompanied by a sow and a sibling cub. Johnson was given an arraignment date of 10-4-11 in the Haines district court. The bear was seized by AWT. A brown bear is considered a cub for the first two years of its life. Read more->
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By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE USCG press release By Beth Bragg | ADN  NOAA photo By Mike Dunham | ADN The call came in around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Moran said. Boats taking tourists on whale viewing trips spotted the calf and its mother in Lynn Canal near the Shrine of St. Therese, a Catholic retreat north of Juneau. A buoy bobbed between the whales and it looked as if they might be ensnarled with the line. The lab’s “large whale disentanglement team” — both scientists and non-scientific staff — was on the water by 10 a.m.  Pete Lapham Pete Lapham passed away Sunday after a lengthy fight with cancer. He was 65. Pete Lapham cared deeply about Haines. His infectious smile and easygoing personality were well known in the community, and he chipped in to help wherever he could. His long history in Haines was one of constant involvement in the community, and he served Haines in a number of ways. He retired from the Alaska Department of Transportation after 32 years, and was a member of the Haines Volunteer Fire Department for 40 years. Over the years was a member of the American Legion, Elks, Haines Borough Assembly, Haines Energy & Sustainability Commission, Haines Borough Planning Commission, and the Chilkat Snowburners snowmachine club. For may years Pete and his wife, Diana, managed the Alcan 200 snowmachine race from the border to Dezedeash Lake on the Haines Highway; they were active in the Yukon snowmachine racing scene as well. Pete was one of the charter board members of the Alaska Alliance for Commerce, Inc., publisher of the Haines Alaska News, where his knowledge of the community and its history was a valuable asset. Pete loved Haines and its people, and he made a difference where he could. Haines is a better place for him having been part of it. *** Services for Pete Lapham will be held 11:00 Thursday at the Chilkat Center, followed by a procession to graveside services at the Haines Cemetery. After the graveside services a potluck in Pete’s honor will be hosted by the Haines Elks and Emblem Club–they will provide the main course. *** The federal agency that this month suspended a veteran scientist now says its case has nothing to do with an article he wrote about polar bears that apparently drowned, permitting issues or scientific integrity. Read full article in the Alaska Dispatch. Kevery Strunk, age 63, of Haines died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound about 7:22 Monday evening. According to Haines Police Chief Gary Lowe, the Police Department received a 911 call that a person was talking about committing suicide. The person was an acquaintance of the victim and called police when she heard a gunshot in the house. Haines Police, with the assistance of a State Park Ranger, secured the house and tried to contact the victim. Unsuccessful, they entered the house and found the victim lying on the floor in the living room with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was transported to the SEARHC Clinic where he was pronounced dead by the attending physician. While the final determination of the cause of death will come from the Medical Examiner’s office, the Haines Police Department is treating this incident as a suicide.
AP Rachelle Waterman was just 16 years old when she was accused of conspiring to kill her mother. She was acquitted in February of the more serious charges of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder, charges that could have put her behind bars for life. AP Dennim Craig Hagwood was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Juneau.  City of Unalaska, Alaska DCED Photo by Jill Burke | ALASKA DISPATCH Acting on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice is threatening to wring more than $158 million out of the city of Unalaska. It claims the city has for years dumped sewage pollutants into the Pacific Ocean and now wants a federal judge to not only force Unalaska into compliance but also impose up to $32,500 per day in fines, even more — up to $37,500 per day — for the most recent violations. …Unalaska might be the first Alaska community wrestling with an unyielding regulator, but what if it isn’t the last? Unalaska’s bureaucratic tangle could be a signal of what’s headed to other small, remote communities: financially devastating enforcement of a one-size-fits-all federal water policy that doesn’t apply well to the realities of life in rural Alaska. Read the full story in the Alaska Dispatch.  The burned out hull of the 58-foot fishing vessel Legend sits grounded at Bostwick Point eight miles south of Ketchikan July 11, 2011 JUNEAU–The Coast Guard is responding to the grounding and a subsequent fire aboard the 58-foot fishing vessel Legend at Bostwick Point about eight miles south of Ketchikan Monday. A Coast Guard Station Ketchikan small boat crew with Marine Safety Detachment Ketchikan pollution investigators aboard assessed the Legend Monday morning and reported the approximately 700 gallons of diesel and a catch of 2,000 pounds of salmon aboard were consumed by the fire. Read more-> HAINES–Significant interruptions to Internet service affected Haines and Skagway residents over the weekend, but problems have been resolved. According to AP&T phone manager Bruce Messerschmidt, “We over-drove our router and the outage occurred while we were trying to cut over to the new [larger] router.” Company employees worked for 4 consecutive evenings to complete the process during low-usage times starting at 1:00 a.m. Read more->  An R&R Diving crew assesses the sunken 36-foot fishing vessel Ice Maiden off Rocky Point in Prince William Sound USCG Press Release: The 36-foot Ice Maiden capsized at approximately 1 p.m. Sunday while retrieving a net full of salmon. All four of the crewmembers were able to evacuate to the vessel’s seine skiff prior to the capsizing. The good Samaritan fishing vessels New Venture and Aquanator were fishing in the area and provided assistance, including transportation to Cordova, for the crew of the Seward-based Ice Maiden. Read more-> During the past week, the Haines Police Department made three arrests for driving while intoxicated:
Overall, Haines Police Chief Gary Lowe reports that in spite of an apparent increase in alcohol use over the holiday, and a fatality accident during the early hours of the 4th, the holiday weekend was “fairly quiet.”
Jonathan Graham, age 21 of Chilkat Lake Road died in a one-vehicle accident near mile 1 Haines Highway during the early morning hours of the 4th. Graham was driving a borrowed 2002 Toyota pickup west on Main Street where it joins the Haines Highway at the “Y”, when he failed to negotiate a curve to the right. The truck left the road, bounced through a ditch, traveled across the Bigfoot Auto parking lot–narrowly missing the fuel pumps– and came to rest in the deep ditch between Bigfoot Auto and Haines Home Hardware. Read more-> by Chris Klint and The Associated Press U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline permanently barred enforcement of Senate Bill 222, which also makes offensive touching a misdemeanor and intentionally accessing child pornography a class-C felony, based on a provision which would make anyone who operates a website criminally liable for posting material deemed “harmful to minors.” Beistline said that the bill would have chilled free expression. By Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE According to reports from Malaspina Capt. Nick Kollars and Second Mate Leif Short-Forrer the rescue of Joey Nowiki, 33, occurred at approximately 10:40 p.m. approximately one mile south of the Skagway harbor. by Klas Stolpe | JUNEAU EMPIRE “It was very heavy,” Cheney said. “At least 25 pounds.” The heirloom? A roughly 12-inch long, 30-pound unexploded round of ammunition fired by the U.S. military on the village more than 140 years ago in what villagers and other descendents still refer to as “The Kake War.”  Fred and Kathy Hosford If there’s a word to describe Kathy and Fred Hosford, it’s “focused.” When they purchased their Dyea property in 1999, the Hosfords indended to build a bed and breakfast. By 2003 they were living in the Chilkoot Trail Outpost lodge, and by 2003 all of the cabins were ready for occupancy. Now, 8 years later, their beautiful lodge is neat as a pin, and caters to several types of independent travelers from bed and breakfast guests to Chilkoot Trail hikers. Kathy Hosford was elected vice-chair of the district 5 Republicans in February 2010, and focuses on her job there with the same intensity as she does on building their business. She presented the idea of hosting a fundraiser for the district to Congressman Don Young when he was in Haines, last March. Read more->  Karen Hess Last Monday’s Haines Borough Assembly special meeting made a mockery of our election ordinances, the will of the voters, the rule of law, the authority of the superior court, and common decency. Most of the public present favored seating Karen Hess in the vacant assembly Seat “E”, including assembly members Scott Rossman and Jerry Lapp. But in a clearly partisan move, members Daymond Hoffman, Joanne Waterman and Steve Vick refused to seat Hess, offering instead to seat almost any other member of the public. Their actions mirrored those at last fall’s assembly meeting in which they voted to seat Greg Goodman in spite of his residency issues: the three obviously arrived prepared not to seat Hess under any circumstances, and then groped in vain for facts and logic that would justify their actions. Half of the audience walked out before the meeting was over, and comments by some caused a couple of assembly members to complain about being called “spineless,” and “prejudiced” by the public. Read more->
On Saturday, June 11, the USCG is inviting the public to meet the officers and crews, and get a close look at the Defender class response boats in the Haines small boat harbor, space E-13, between noon and 4 p.m. “We are from Los Angeles,” reports Lt. j.g. Colin Boyle, “We were airlifted to Juneau aboard a C-5 airlift, then traveled to Haines on the Alaska ferry. We’ll be here for a couple of weeks.” Boyle reports that the unit specializes in event security, and is specially trained to respond to emergencies aboard cruise ships. They are available to do commercial and other vessel inspections on request.
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