Lex Treinen

1 week ago | ashland.news | Lex Treinen

By Lex Treinen for Ashland.newsTwo adjacent lots at the Ashland Mobile Estates paint a stark picture of the potential effects of a recent Trump administration funding suspension of a tree-planting project. One of the lots is covered with about a dozen 10-foot-tall saplings. Ginkgo, madrone and Chinese pistache trees are planted in neat lines across the property. The young trees, with buds just appearing, are neatly surrounded by a ring of rocks enclosing dark topsoil.

2 months ago | ashland.news | Lex Treinen |Bert Etling

By Lex Treinen for Ashland.newsOn a cold, drizzly Friday, homeless people were gathering up outside the city’s shelter at 2200 Ashland St., even though the shelter doesn’t open for another two hours. The reason: They’re vying for one of 14 beds on a night when temperatures were forecast to be in the upper-20s. If they don’t arrive early enough, there are 14 more chairs to sit on, but clients aren’t allowed to sleep. Anyone who shows up after those 28 spots are full gets turned away.

Sep 6, 2024 | juneauempire.com | Lex Treinen

Camelia Bell wasn’t sure she’d start at Saturday’s season opener cross-country meet in Haines. The senior had been training hard all summer, but got sick with a sore throat in the week leading up to the Haines Invitational Cross-Country Meet’s 5,000-meter race that forced her to sit out of training. It wasn’t until the day before she decided to jump in the race. “It’s a fun race. I decided if I don’t hit it, that’s okay,” she said.

May 16, 2024 | juneauempire.com | Lex Treinen

Two artists who worked in Haines in the 1960s and ‘70s were finally officially recognized for designing the ubiquitous logo for the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The two artists — Nathan Jackson and John Hagen — were honored at the President’s Awards Banquet in Juneau in front of hundreds of attendees. “All my kids came to watch,” said Hagen, who is 78-years-old and still lives in Haines.

May 16, 2024 | juneauempire.com | Lex Treinen

A thick, pungent smell wafts up from a five-foot, wood-plank pit as workers slosh thousands of sausage-sized hooligan that have been sitting for about a week. For the dozen or more people gathered on the banks of the Chilkoot River, it’s a good smell. “They’re ripe,” said Marsha Hotch, a Tlingít elder from Klukwan who is guiding the process. A man hands her a white, five-gallon bucket from the pit.