A celebration of life for Alf A. Shaflestad will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall in Hoonah. A dinner will follow.
This summer at a new Hoonah housing development, a brown bear tried to turn over a camper. There was a man inside. He called police, who shot the bear.
The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Angoon Health Center will hold a special Denali KidCare pediatric dental clinic Dec. 3-7, and the SEARHC Dental Program will hold the clinic Dec. 10-14, at the Hoonah Medical Clinic.
A seminal study of the school-based mentoring program of Big Brothers Big Sisters, the largest youth mentoring organization in Alaska and the United States, shows that students with a "Big Brother" or "Big Sister" have better academic performance, attitudes, and behaviors over the course of a school year than students who did not have a Big Brother or Big Sister.
Businesses start with a hunch. Darlene See had a hunch she could sell Tlingit weaving and other Native artwork to thousands of tourists who now visit Hoonah every year.
What was once a dilapidated cannery just outside Hoonah, is now a hot spot for tourism. The Icy Strait Point Cannery, which was long ago a productive salmon cannery, reopened in 2004, with a modern mission.
