Tari “Ty” Esposito said when she arrived in Haines as the acting public health nurse last fall, “I loved the town as soon as I got here.”

That led Esposito to apply for a permanent public health nurse position here, and she started in that role last month. She previously was a public health nurse in Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island.

Esposito grew up in San Francisco and later worked for a pathologist in…