Downtown paving job waits until at least 2011

If you spill your coffee driving down Third Avenue, you might consider a bib.

Resurfacing of downtown streets – recently a high priority for the Haines Borough – will likely wait until 2011 or later, according to borough manager Mark Earnest.

Failure to secure funding of the project by the Alaska Legislature torpedoed the borough’s main funding source for Phase 2 of a multi-year plan for improving roads, Earnest said.

Speaking to the Haines Chamber…