Carlson offered job as tourism director

Borough manager Mark Earnest has offered the tourism director position to a 2001 University of Alaska-Southeast graduate who worked as a naturalist for Holland America.

Tanya Carlson, a product developer at Holiday Vacations in Eau Claire, Wis., attended a Dec. 20 meet-and-greet at the Haines Borough Public Library as one of three finalists for the position, and Earnest selected her as the preferred candidate.

“We’re still in negotiations,” Earnest said Tuesday. “She’s actually traveling right…