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It’s the fourth year of the Chilkat Valley’s annual spring art festival and organizers are hoping a new grant will help them grow the festival event further.
The Alaska Arts Confluence is still raising the funds it needs to match and receive a $4,500 Alaska State Council on the Arts grant. Board members said they’re about $1,000 away from meeting that goal. The group plans to use the funds to pay artists running workshops and expand the core things it offers during the two-week Artfest at the end of April.
“The marketplace is going to be much bigger and the parade is going to be bigger,” Alten said.
The theme of this year’s parade is “Colors of the Wind.” The winner of the most creative float will get $100 and bragging rights.
“This year we’d really like to get a bunch of art cars in the parade – people who have painted their cars or done fun things to their cars,” Alten said.
The ArtFest calendar changes every year, depending on which local organizations participate, but that’s kind of the idea. Both Alten and Arts Confluence board member Charlie Moody described creating a space for organizations to launch the Chilkat Valley into summer with whatever local art they’d like to produce.
“We’re really trying to help people promote and expand what we’re offering,” Alten said. “To make it something people look forward to, that visitors come for. There’s never really been much to do in April.”
This year on the calendar, the Haines Arts Council’s workshops include songwriting and ballet. The organization is also in its second year of running a music, art & dance camp on Sunday starting at noon at the Chilkat Center. Tracy Wirak-Cassidy is running an ArtFest workshop teaching people about marine debris and then creating a mosaic with it throughout April; several afternoon art sessions are scheduled at the Haines library and the Lynn Canal Community Players are staging a comedic spoof on an Alfred Hitchcock film called “39 Steps.”
The Arts Confluence is sponsoring a handful of workshops on May 2, including block printing, zine making, and felt art.
The group is also organizing Live Art on the Trails which features performers showcasing their work on the CIA Trails in Haines. That event has been pushed back a week, to April 25th, due to the snow conditions on the trails. Moody said anyone interested in showing off their skills during that event can reach out to him or Clara Natonabah to get involved. As of Wednesday, there were three spots left open.
Events are still being added to the Alaska Arts Confluence calendar. Organizers said the best place to find more information was at the website alaskaartsconfluence.org/artfest.
Artfest ends after a day of events on Sunday May 3, starting with the parade at 11:30 a.m. and ending with a Jackson Emmer concert at the Chilkat Center at 7 p.m.
Ultimately, Alten and Moody said they’d like to see the annual event grow into something that brings people together to practice art of all kinds, regardless of what the Confluence can organize.
“There’s an economic benefit,” Alten said. “We know that about art festivals. Yukon Art Festival has grown by leaps and bounds. That’s what art festivals do, they grow.”
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Since I wrote my piece comparing a lease to sharecropping, I have received quite a bit of feedback. I regret getting involved in a dispute between two parties who were not seeking resolution but dissolution of their business relationship. I was unaware of the tenant’s past-due rent, and I should have reached out to the landlord before writing what I did. For this, I am sorry.
I still believe that tenants should advocate for their best-case scenarios in their leases, and if you don’t know what that is, consult a lawyer. I hired Andrew Juneau from Faulkner Banfield in Juneau.
I was wearing my chef hat when I wrote that piece, and now I am eating it. I wasn’t considering my role at the Chamber of Commerce. What I did was a divisive act. While I thought I was defending a chamber member, I should have looked at the full picture first. When a restaurant struggles, it is usually because of multiple compounding issues, not one.
It is important to help each other in a small community, but boundaries matter. Our most meaningful impact comes from our daily work and how we show up for people. We live in expensive, stressful times — especially in rural Alaska — and it is easy to lay blame. It is harder to work together. I’ve always preferred the hard way, and I am sorry that my anger got the best of me.
Travis Kukull
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In the weeks since video of Taylor Frankie Paul assaulting Dakota Mortensen was made public, Paul has maintained that footage of the altercation did not tell the whole story.
Now, it appears she’s been somewhat vindicated.
In photos obtained by TMZ, Taylor and Dakota are both sporting facial injuries that were allegedly caused by one another.
That doesn’t change the fact that Taylor is on camera hurling metal barstools at Dakota. But she may have been telling the truth when she claimed she was a victim as well as an aggressor.
Whatever the case, there’s more good news for Paul, as we now know that she will not face any new criminal charges in connection with further claims made by Mortensen.
According to People, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office announced on April 14 that it will not pursue charges stemming from additional alleged incidents involving Paul and Mortensen.
The office said some of the allegations fell outside the statute of limitations, while others either did not rise to the level of criminal offenses or lacked sufficient evidence and specificity to move forward.
As the DA’s office explained in letters obtained by People, some incidents lacked ‘specificity as to when and what actually occurred or corroboration.”
The office also noted that the case was reviewed by “multiple attorneys” due to Paul’s public profile.
Following the news, Paul took to social media with an emotional statement.
“Cried when I got the call. THANK YOU to those that have stood with me,” she wrote (per People).
Clearly, Taylor is grateful to those who supported her through the legal and personal turmoil of the past several weeks.
The reality star’s response reflected a sense of relief after weeks of uncertainty surrounding the investigation.
This latest decision applies only to the new allegations investigated in 2026.
As People notes, this does not change the 2023 case, in which Paul previously pleaded guilty in abeyance to aggravated assault after a separate incident involving Mortensen.
That earlier case remains a significant part of the public conversation surrounding Paul, particularly after leaked footage of the incident led ABC to cancel Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette.
For now, however, prosecutors have made clear that no new charges will be filed in connection with the most recent allegations.
And for Paul, that development appears to have brought at least some measure of relief amid what has been a deeply public and painful chapter.
“It’s sad to see the latest installment of his never-ending, desperate, attention-seeking, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without any regard for the consequences for their child,” a rep for the reality star said in a statement last month.
“Releasing an old and selectively edited video on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior.”
Hopefully, now Taylor and Dakota can both move on from this messy incident.
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Haines’ king salmon sport fishery is once more open to anglers, even as state fish forecasters project a smaller run of Chilkat kings this year.
For nearly a decade, sport fishing for king salmon has been shut down in the Upper Lynn Canal — a response to historically low returns.
From 2011 to 2018, the number of kings spawning in the Chilkat River came in below the state’s sustainability goal — also known as escapement — all but one year.
This year, beginning on June 14, Alaskan anglers in the Haines area may catch two 28-inch or bigger king salmon per day, with no total limit for the season.
Non-resident anglers are limited to one large fish per day and three total through June 30, then limited to one total after that date.
The past decade of restrictions on fisheries have been effective in pulling the Chilkat run out of its decline. Whereas about 20% of the run annually was being harvested 10 years ago, the harvest in recent years has been about 5% of the run, said Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Brian Elliott last year. Now, the run has made escapement seven of the last eight years.
Last year’s return of 4,054 spawning-size Chilkat kings exceeded the top end of the escapement range and the pre-season forecast of 3,000 fish.
Nevertheless, some continue to worry about the run’s long-term health.
Longtime angler and gillnetter Stuart DeWitt this week questioned the decision to reopen the sport fishery without an annual limit.
“A run that’s been closed for so long, why wouldn’t you err on the side of caution?” DeWitt said. “I want to be able to (catch kings), I’ll take any opportunity to do it, but three fish per person for a family in a year — that’s plenty of meat.”
The first indication of run strength will come from tagging in May, said Daniel Teske, Fish and Game’s Juneau-area sportfish biologist. With that data, he said, managers may still consider in-season restrictions, particularly on non-resident anglers.
But overall, Teske pointed to last year’s return and the recent run of higher-escapements as evidence of a run that can support this year’s opening.
As the Haines-area sheds the stringent restrictions of the past decade, the fishery is now mostly in line with the rest of the region.
The daily- and season-limits are the same as the general Southeast king salmon sportfish regulations, though the start of the season in Haines is delayed to June 14. This year’s two-fish daily limit for kings in Southeast doubles last year’s one-fish daily limit.
The June 14 start date means fishing will only open toward the tail end of traditional run-timing, Elliott said, which Fish and Game hopes will minimize over-harvest.
The new sport fish regulations follow the January release of Fish and Game’s annual preseason forecast. According to the forecast, state biologists predict the Chilkat will see 2,650 spawning-size king salmon. That number — calculated assuming zero-harvest — falls well within the escapement range, but is lower than both last year’s return and last year’s forecast.
According to Elliott, that’s not a cause for worry. The largest proportion of spawners in the Chilkat run have been 5-year old fish, and last year’s 5-year old age class was particularly large. The forecast still exceeds the specific point goal within the escapement range of 2,200 spawners, Elliott said, leaving room for some harvest.
On the commercial side, management is expected to “remain conservative” this season, with restrictions remaining similar to past years, said Fish and Game’s Haines commercial fisheries manager Nicole Zeiser.
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