Some businesses this fall balked on sponsoring a Haines Glacier Bear T-shirt created by an Idaho firm, saying they shouldn’t be sending money out of town to support the school here.

They also questioned why those shirts weren’t being created by a local outfit.

All-American Publishing, a company based in Boise, Idaho, was to create the shirts. It already produced the school’s activities calendar. Under an arrangement with the high school’s student government, the company…