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3 weeks ago | 
juneauempire.com | Will Steinfeld
The number of passengers entering the country at the Dalton Cache border crossing last month was higher than normal, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics. For weeks, Haines residents and business owners have been concerned about a drop-off in Canadian tourism resulting from tariffs and annexation talk from the Trump Administration.
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1 month ago | 
juneauempire.com | Will Steinfeld
If you’re a tourist, or new to town, you don’t really want to find yourself in Dalton City at dusk in early April. Not with wind howling off Ripinsky/Geisan, creaking old timbers and rattling windows in something so odd as an old, empty film set. But if you were lucky to happen in on the right evening, you’d hear Justin Letson’s drumming keeping time in an unmarked room.
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2 months ago | 
chilkatvalleynews.com | Rashah McChesney |Will Steinfeld
Many in the Chilkat Valley said they anticipate negative impacts on relationships they have with neighboring communities, tourism, and the price of commodities.
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2 months ago | 
juneauempire.com | Will Steinfeld
With rising tension between the United States and Canada, some are worried that Haines could pay the price of Canadian resentment. It’s hard to put a precise number on Haines’ economic reliance on Canadian tourism, but tourism director Rebecca Hylton says it’s significant.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
placesjournal.org | Will Steinfeld
At dawn the ducks come in with the tide to feed on bivalves in the inlet beside Armand Deluise’s house. Their squawking is his alarm clock. “Being on the water is in our DNA,” he says. His grandfather emigrated from a small island off the coast of Naples, and since 1925 the family has lived in Conimicut, a fishing village in Rhode Island, where the Providence River opens onto Narragansett Bay. In these hundred years, they’ve seen high water.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
rhodeislandcurrent.com | Will Steinfeld
Frontline caregivers for children with autism picketed outside the Groden Center in Providence on Friday for the third and final day of a strike called to demand higher wages and better working conditions with plans to return to work Monday.
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May 8, 2024 | 
warwickonline.com | Will Steinfeld
What makes a commencement special? There are a couple of key ingredients: students celebrating, proud families hooting and hollering encouragement, pageantry, music, big arenas. The personal moments are what bring the day to life. Long speeches? Usually less so. Not so, however, at New England Institute of Technology’s commencement this past Sunday, where NEIT’s speaker, actress Rita Moreno, ended up getting some of the most rousing applause of the whole day.
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May 7, 2024 | 
cranstononline.com | Will Steinfeld
What makes a commencement special? There are a couple of key ingredients: students celebrating, proud families hooting and hollering encouragement, pageantry, music, big arenas. The personal moments are what bring the day to life. Long speeches? Usually less so. Not so, however, at New England Institute of Technology’s commencement this past Sunday, where NEIT’s speaker, actress Rita Moreno, ended up getting some of the most rousing applause of the whole day.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
cranstononline.com | Will Steinfeld
After a half-year and counting, a Special Legislative Commission studying decreased quahog catch is nearing the finish line. The commission will discuss their recommendations in an early April meeting, and will provide a report by May 31st, on whether or not the bay needs to get ‘dirtier’ to save the ailing fishery.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
warwickonline.com | Will Steinfeld
After a half-year and counting, a Special Legislative Commission studying decreased quahog catch is nearing the finish line. The commission will discuss their recommendations in an early April meeting, and will provide a report by May 31st, on whether or not the bay needs to get ‘dirtier’ to save the ailing fishery.
