Hoonah News

Gustavus-based charter Air Excursions is ready to fly scheduled flights in Southeast - if the federal government overrules an objection from a competitor that the company owes more than $600,000 in federal taxes.

Logging technology and loggers live in a delicate balance. As technology improves, the skills and the men who use it become obsolete.

Jerry Harmon has been a miner for 36 years, since he first moved to Alaska. He's always worked for Alaskan companies but has been "loaned out" and worked all over the world, in Canada, Africa and Brazil.

A dozen Hoonah teens got a feel for their own Alaska Native history recently when they helped local U.S. Forest Service archaeologists catalog a motherlode of artifacts that have been sitting in boxes for 45 years.

Dorothy M. Stevens-James, of Juneau, and Daniel M. Smith, of Hoonah, will marry at 4 p.m. July 24, 2009, at the Alaska Native Brotherhool Hall in Juneau.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that five Alaska schools will receive a shipment of surplus computers from the United States Senate.

Lifelong Hoonah resident Katherine Johnson Grant, whose Tlingit name was Kaa.tut.wu.oo, died June 14, 2009.

Bill Martin wanted to get Native Alaskans talking about suicide prevention for years.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 14, 2009, a son, Leland Randel Black, weighing 5 pounds, 5 ounces, to Alexandra Leslie Crider and Randel Dale Black, of Yakutat.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On May 5, 2009, a son, Isaac Kent Hill, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces, to Kendra B. and Trevor Tompeo Hill, of Hoonah.

Ketchikan sawmill owner Steve Seley has no more faith in old-growth timber. "I can guarantee you we're not going to invest in any more old-growth equipment," he said.

This afternoon, the University of Alaska Southeast will honor graduates from summer and fall 2008, and spring 2009 in this year's commencement ceremonies.

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from a Juneau Student Symphony 2008-2009 retrospective by Rick Trostel.

Our thanks to family and friends of Hoonah, Angoon, Juneau, Haines and Wrangell - if we forgot anybody, please forgive us - from the Nakamura daughters of Hoonah, Maxine, Josephine, BettyAnn, Corrina and Joann.

Lifelong Hoonah resident Charlie Dick Wright died the morning of April 22, 2009, after a brief battle with cancer, at his home.

Since the announcement of my new position of General Manager for the Capital City Weekly, I have been receiving daily well wishes, which I very much appreciate - statements such as, "What a natural choice" and, "Why did you wait so long?" It seems people had been giving this some thought long before I did.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On April 6, 2009, a son, Jonah Daniel Smith, weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces, to Kendra Tullouwuk Sheldon and Joshua Donald Smith, of Juneau.

The community of Hoonah was blessed with eggs - of all sorts - on Easter Sunday, April 12, courtesy of Sitka and the F/V Julia Kae and its crew.

Anthony "Five" Manacio V, 23, a first-time fighter with a six-year wrestling career, stunned the crowd with his Rough House Boxing record breaking win over fellow first-time fighter Andrew "Anderson" Johnson, 21, just 11 seconds into the bout.

Coast Guard terminated the voyages of two 37-foot commercial fishing vessels within the last two days in Icy Straight near Hoonah, Alaska.