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After years of performing in makeshift tents, basements and other small venues around town, the Haines puppetry troupe Geppetto’s Junkyard is ready for the big stage.
Following three successful shows at Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival last weekend, Geppetto’s Junkyard is taking “Travels in the Belly of a Whale” to the Chilkat Center stage.
For more than a decade, the group of ragtag puppeteers has set up in cramped quarters, like the Chilkat Center basement, Mosey’s restaurant and the circus-esque tent at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. But when a Petersburg resident contacted the troupe to perform on the town’s main stage, they scaled their new props and puppets accordingly.
Puppeteer Debi Knight Kennedy said the show features a 15-foot whale, elaborate sets depicting the creature’s innards, and full-size mermaids made of cloth and found objects. The main character, Inar, is a wooden puppet that stands more than three feet tall.
Though he plays the adventure-seeking Viking fisherman Inar in “Travels in the Belly of a Whale,” the wooden puppet isn’t new to the Geppetto’s Junkyard repertoire, Knight Kennedy said.
“He’s become like a movie star kind of guy. He has different roles,” she said.
The nautical tale follows Inar’s escapades around the world, with scenes involving underwater black light magic, singing palm trees and plenty of the group’s signature shadow puppetry. Live music and original songwriting punctuate the performance, including a knockout ballad by Hannah Bochart about Davey Jones’ Locker.
“When a lot of people think about puppets they think about hand puppets or the Muppets,” said puppeteer Melina Shields. “But we’ve really taken it to a different place that’s less Mr. Rogers and more in the European tradition of puppetry. It’s a full theater performance.”
Petersburg residents were thrilled by the group’s whimsical, humorous and poignant performances last weekend, Shields said.
“It will leave you smiling and engaged. People were so psyched at the last show that we did that they didn’t want to leave. They all came up on the stage and got up into the belly of the whale. Little kids were hugging Inar and leaning on the boat,” she said.
The whole “swallowed by a whale” plotline isn’t supposed to be a biblical reference, she added. “The whale is really more of a therapist/philosopher.”
Fourteen of the troupe’s core members will perform this Friday, as will three of their children: Yarona Jacobson (daughter of Merrick Bochart and Joey Jacobson) plays a squid, Zorza Szatkowski (son of Jessica Plachta and Nicholas Szatkowski) appears as an underwater critter in the black light scene, and Garland Bishop (daughter of Sarah and Chorus Bishop) dons a tiny hat to transform into a “baby wave.”
“Garland just rode around on (mother) Sarah’s back the whole show (in Petersburg) with a little binky in her mouth. She was like Maggie from ‘The Simpsons,’” Shields said.
In addition to the main performance, “Travels in the Belly of a Whale” includes a “pre-show,” with Knight Kennedy and her husband Gene portraying clowns named “Major Disaster” and “Minor Dilemma.”
The show is appropriate for all ages. “We had happy babies in the audience and we had laughing 80-year-olds,” Shields said of the Petersburg show.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. They are available at the Babbling Book and at the door.
25 years ago
Haines fishermen aren’t opposed to paying for using the crane at the Small Boat Harbor, but they don’t want to have to go to city hall for a key to unlock it.
Gillnetters, city councilors and boat harbor committee members on Monday worked out a proposed ordinance change for using the crane that would require a seasonal or per-use fee.
Those paying a seasonal rate would get a key, otherwise keys would be available at the harbormaster’s office and at the police station. Proposed fees are $10 per use or $50 for a season.
“Everybody who understands the value of the crane, and that we’re going to have to pay for it,” said fisherman Stan Wood. An ordinance setting fees and key policy is being drafted to be introduced at the next council meeting.
Wood said he’d like to see penalties for unauthorized use of the crane. If funds raised by the fee exceed maintenance on the crane, the city should buy an additional, smaller lift, he said. “There’s no point wearing his big crane out to pick up 300 pounds at a time.”
City administrator Vince Hansen said he’d also like to establish a log of crane use, in part to determine wear and tear on equipment. Replacing the crane would cost an estimated $36,000.
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The 1941 Howe fire truck—acquired surplus by the Haines Volunteer Fire Dept. in 1959—stands proudly but outclassed by the new Seagrave truck the HVFD received Wednesday.
The new 350 h.p. diesel truck has an automatic transmission; it will pump 1,500 gallons of water per minute and carries 3,000 feet of two and one-half inch hose. The 125 h.p. Howe is gasoline powered, will pump 750 gallons per minute, and carries 1,500 feet of hose.
The new truck, ordered 18 months ago, cost $64,900; today’s price would be $76,000, but the contract entered into a year and a half ago was binding, Fire Chief Frank Wallace said. He and Assistant Chief Chuck Jones drove the new truck 3,200 miles from Wisconsin to Prince Rupert, B.C. to catch the ferry Taku.
What’s the future of the Howe? It will continue to serve the area, Wallace said. However, the fire department has a problem: where to house it. Anyone with a secure garage at least 30 feet long might get in touch with the chief.
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Kudos to the Southeast Road Builders’ fire brigade along with the all the others who responded to the fiery demise of my beloved SueBeeSue#6 along the highway just south of Klukwan. Thanks to the unknown driver of the blue pickup who I flagged down and dispatched to alert the SERB crew nearby. Thus, all the onboard fire extinguishers carried by SERB vehicles were promptly emptied, then topped off by the magical powers of Matty and his big hose knocking the flames down before the gas tank blew. Extra shout out to queen of the day, Helena Muench, who possessed the uncanny ability to drop her stop sign, enter the only phone booth south of the border clad as a fluorescent north-end flagger and appear on the other side donned in full fire turn-out gear driving a fire engine!
Appreciation for the arrival of both fire departments who then followed with mop up, Dakota Strong for the ride home, and all the others who radio relayed and helped with the efforts. It’s always heartwarming to see neighbors taking care of neighbors and this response could not have had a better ending. Many thanks to you all.
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Fuel prices jumped Monday, up to $5.74 per gallon for gasoline and $6.53 for diesel at Haines Industrial’s pumps. At Delta Western across the street, prices are now $5.79 for gasoline and $6.58 for diesel.
Prices had held steady in Haines for weeks, even as global fuel prices skyrocketed following the United States’ war on Iran.
In mid-April, Delta Western spokesperson Di Do said the company hadn’t raised prices in Haines since March 13, the date of the most recent fuel delivery to the Lutak Dock. There has not been a new fuel delivery since then, Haines harbormaster Henry Pollan said.
Haines Industrial owner Haynes Tormey, who is supplied by Delta Western, said he was notified of its pricing change Monday morning.
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Back in March, on the day Mauricio Pochettino named the United Sates’ penultimate roster before this summer’s FIFA World Cup, I asked the U.S. men’s national team coach how he’d weigh the more consequential decisions looming two months later: if making his 26-player World Cup squad would depend more on their form and fitness in late May, or how they’d performed for the Stars and Stripes since the former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain manager arrived in 2024. “It’s an art, because every single player is different and can add different things to the team,” Pochettino said. “Different characters, different profiles, different quality, different talent. We cannot follow some rule, because I think it’s not fair to judge all [of them] in the same way.” We’ll soon see how the Argentine judges the 35 “or maybe a few more” players in contention for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to participate in a World Cup on home soil. (The U.S., which opens against Paraguay on June 12 in Los Angeles, is co-hosting the 48-team international soccer extravaganza with Canada and Mexico.) Surely, star forward Christian Pulisic remains a locked-in starter for Pochettino despite a goal drought that has now reached 17 games for AC Milan and 19 overall. The status of attacking midfielder Malik Tillman is less clear; Tillman has barely featured for German club Bayer Leverkusen over the last two months and might no longer be the World Cup roster shoo-in he seemed like at the end of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup. Tillman’s untimely drop-off could help Gio Reyna, who has logged more playing time at Borussia Mönchengladbach lately, or open the door for another attacker – someone like Houston Dynamo midfielder Jack McGlynn, who U.S. assistant coach Jesús Pérez will watch play in person this Sunday. Two of the national team’s all-time greats — Landon Donovan and Tim Howard — recently predicted that Pochettino wouldn’t pick Johnny Cardoso, who last week became just the fourth American player ever to appear in a UEFA Champions League semifinal. (This was before Cardoso injured his ankle in training with Atlético Madrid on Thursday.) But a surprise or two is possible. Maybe even likely. Donovan was famously left home for the 2014 World Cup by then-coach Jürgen Klinsmann. In 2022, Shaq Moore made the roster and two substitute appearances in Qatar, something nobody predicted beforehand. Same in 2010, when strikers Edson Buddle and Herculez Gomez made the U.S. team on the strength of timely goal-scoring streaks alone. Will somebody come out of nowhere and play themselves onto the World Cup roster over the next few weeks? Here’s who’s trending up (and down) with Pochettino’s announcement now less than three weeks away. Stock Up The USA’s back line anchor will play for another trophy as Palace – last season’s FA Cup winner – finished off Shakhtar Donetsk on Thursday in London to advance to the UEFA Conference League final. The Eagles and Spanish club Rayo Vallecano face off on May 27 in Leipzig, Germany. The Americans’ pre-World Cup camp begins earlier the same day at the new Arthur M. Blank National Training Center outside of Atlanta. Possibly the most irreplaceable player that Pochettino has, Adams is nearing full fitness at exactly the right time. The veteran destroyer, 27, made his first Premier League start in two months in last weekend’s 3-0 win over Palace. (Richards, who started both legs against Shakhtar, entered in the second half.) Adams had been limited to a role as a substitute in his first three games for the Cherries after returning from the hamstring ailment that sidelined him for club and country in March. When he suffered his own hamstring strain in March, Dest insisted he’d return before season’s end. He kept that promise last weekend, entering off the bench for the final 30 minutes of the Dutch champions’ 2-2 tie with rivals Ajax. PSV has two league games remaining, beginning with Sunday’s trip to the gloriously named Go Ahead Eagles. The 22-year-old lefty, who has made 12 of his 13 career U.S. appearances under Pochettino, has been out of sight and mind since undergoing foot surgery last fall. Now he’s back on the field, having made his first start of 2026 in last week’s 1-0 win over Colorado. He’s back in the World Cup mix, too. A day after taking in RSL-FCD in Texas, Pérez will be in Southern California for McGlynn’s match at LAFC. One of the most consistent Americans employed overseas in 2025-26, Morris could benefit if Cardoso can’t go. Capping his club campaign in style could help. The Columbus Crew product will help ‘Boro compete for a Premier League spot over the next five days, with the opening match of its home-and-home, total-goals-wins series against Southampton on Saturday. The decisive second leg is on Tuesday. In his 37th appearance of the season, Trusty helped Celtic beat Hibernian and keep pace with Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts — setting up a potential title decider between the teams on May 16, the final day of the campaign. First, the experienced left-footed center back will look to extend his streak of starts to six straight games in Sunday’s Old Firm derby with chief nemesis Rangers. There’s a lot of hype around the 19-year-old, who notched his third goal (to go with four assists) of the MLS season last Saturday against Portland. Pérez, Poch’s top deputy, will be at RSL’s game in Dallas on May 9, too, ostensibly to see Diego Luna (who also scored vs. the Timbers). Considering his inexperience, the uncapped Gozo probably remains a long shot for this World Cup. But if he balls out with Pérez watching and someone else gets injured, who knows? Stock Down On Tuesday, Johnny and Atléti failed to beat Arsenal on Tuesday and advance to the UEFA Champions League final. On Thursday, Cardoso’s week got worse: The Spanish titans announced that the 24-year-old had suffered “a high grade ankle sprain” in training, the awful timing of which could seemingly dash his World Cup dreams. While no timetable was given, the USA’s first game is a mere 36 days away. Another week, another game without a goal for Pulisic, who has now also lost his starting spot for Milan boss Maxi Allegri. The 27-year-old was on the bench to start the Rossoneri’s eventual 2-0 loss to Sassuolo on May 3, and while he entered (as a striker) in the 59th minute he couldn’t get Milan any closer. Up next? A trip to Genoa on Sunday, with just one more Serie A game remaining, at home to Cagliari on May 24, after that. When the playmaker logged almost the final half-hour of Leverkusen’s 2-1 win over Cologne on April 25, it looked like Tillman was inching closer to winning back his starting job. Instead, he made just a five-minute cameo versus RB Leipzig last Saturday, well after the outcome was in doubt. He has a total of 42 minutes of action for the club since March 21. After suffering what Charlotte coach Dean Smith called “a setback” in his recovery from the groin injury he suffered on April 18, Ream missed his fourth consecutive MLS match last weekend. The Crown host FC Cincinnati on Saturday. Robinson also hasn’t played since April 18, having missed FCC’s last three league games with an undisclosed leg ailment. He could feature in Charlotte, though, having returned to full training earlier this week.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
In Driver’s Eye with James Hinchcliffe, the six-time INDYCAR winner will bring you inside the mind of a racer while breaking down the nuts and bolts of the sport for fans. This time of year, it’s easy to think about one thing and one thing only: the Indianapolis 500. But when you’re racing in INDYCAR, you do that at your own peril. And the reason for that is simple. There is still another race to run before the 500! Yes, I am talking about the Sonsio Grand Prix, colloquially known as the Indy Grand Prix. The hardest part about the Indy Grand Prix is that it runs just a few days before, and in the same venue, as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing — but on a different track. Casual or newer fans might not know that on the infield of the mammoth Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course that, along with INDYCAR, has hosted a ton of different series like NASCAR, Formula 1, IMSA, MotoGP and more. For INDYCAR drivers, it’s so easy to want to simply “get the Indy GP over with” so attention can switch to the 500. But you can’t sleep on the GP. Teams will load into the speedway and set up in the same garages they’ll use for the Indy 500. So it already feels like 500 time! You want to get out on the 2.5-mile oval and start dialing in your car and working on winning the big one. But you can’t, because this other race stands in the way. When you zoom out and think of the championship, the Indy GP pays just as many points as any other round on the calendar. For that reason, teams and drivers need to find a way to stay locked in on making the GP as successful a weekend as possible. Some drivers really struggle to keep their mind off the Indy 500, focus on the task at hand and perform at their best in the Indy GP. Others really click with the track and know that it’s a great opportunity for them to score a big result. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in particular is known as an Indy GP specialist team, with veteran driver Graham Rahal specifically always in the mix here. Keep an eye on Rahal in the No. 15 Honda: In 17 starts since 2014, he’s only finished outside the top 10 twice. Another important thing about the Indy GP is it can really set the tone for your Month of May. We talk a lot about how momentum is a real thing in racing, just like stick-and-ball sports. My best result in the GP, a third-place finish in 2016, led right into the start of my strongest Indy 500. We took the uplift from the podium finish into practice week and qualifying, ultimately winning the Indy 500 pole the next weekend. Other drivers have ridden the wave of winning the Indy GP into taking the big prize on Memorial Day Weekend. Alex Palou won both the GP and the 500 last year, following in the footsteps of Will Power, who won both in 2018, and Simon Pagenaud, who won both and added the Indy 500 pole to complete the hat-trick sweep of the Month of May in 2019. Performances like that — a strong May, from the Indy GP to the Indy 500 — can save careers and extend them for years. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FAST: IMS ROAD COURSE The 14-turn track itself isn’t the most complex layout, but it certainly has its challenges. It’s missing the rolling hills and blind corners you find at Barber Motorsports Park or Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. But technical corners — like the combined turning and braking, decreasing radius of Turn 4, and the “esses,” a series of switchbacks from Turn 7 to Turn 10 — can easily catch you out and kill your lap time. More often than not, the drivers that have the best splits through the esses find themselves on the front row after qualifying. And let’s not forget how cool and weird it feels going backward down the frontstraight into Turn 1 after one of the longest full-throttle stretches of the whole season! Well, not really backward, but it certainly feels like it sometimes. The Indy 500 is all left turns counterclockwise around the 2.5-mile oval. The Indy GP on the IMS road course runs clockwise, meaning drivers are speeding down the iconic frontstraight in the opposite direction as the 500. Road course qualifying can be extra tricky too. There isn’t much track between the exit of pit lane and hitting the alternate start-finish line, which is where the lap times begin and end during practice and qualifying. That means you don’t have much time to get temperature into the softer, alternate Firestone tires (the softs) before your first timed lap starts. And that matters because your first timed lap is usually the money lap at this track. Finding the right way to warm everything up — while still finding a good gap for a clean lap and also staying out of the way of everyone who is on a flier — can be a real challenge. If you do manage to get that temp and find that gap, the margins on the Indy road course are so tight that you still have to nail every single brake point, turn in and throttle application perfectly to come out on top. SOUND LIKE AN INDYCAR (HISTORY) EXPERT This May is a big one for the Rahal family. Not only is Graham Rahal looking to get back onto the top step of the podium — remember, the Indy GP is a happy hunting ground for him and maybe his best chance of the calendar — but it’s also been 40 years since his dad, racing legend Bobby Rahal, won the 1986 Indy 500. Bobby’s Indy 500 victory certainly goes down as both one of the greatest races at the 117-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway and one of the most gripping stories of a winner. In honor of the milestone year, FOX Sports, Big Machine Racing Productions and Chassy Media produced a documentary about Bobby’s career and 500 win. “Bobby Rahal: True American Racer” will premiere Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1 and will feature insights and reflections from prominent industry figures like Mario Andretti, Zak Brown, David Letterman, Bryan Herta… and even my good buddy Townsend Bell and I make an appearance! It was very cool to get to be asked to be in a film honoring a man that I have known personally for a very long time and admired as a driver and person ever longer. 1 FOR THE ROAD With that all said, the busiest month of the INDYCAR calendar starts now! Drivers will have busier schedules throughout the month than at any other point of the year. Not only are they on track most days for long hours, they will have endless sponsor commitments, media events, fan engagements and much more. It is what makes May so special but also so challenging. Balancing all the extracurricular stuff with staying focused on the job — winning the Indy GP and Indy 500 — can be incredibly tough. But hey, if it were easy… MORE DRIVER’S EYE:Latest Sports News from FOX Sports