The Haines Borough Assembly last week hung up on a proposal to refer a discussion of pay phones to a committee.

Newspaper editor Tom Morphet, at the request of Mayor Stephanie Scott, prepared a resolution asking Alaska Power and Telephone to reactivate a half-dozen pay phones around town. Morphet took interest in the issue last spring, after AP&T removed the valley’s last eight pay phones.

“In a few places there has been, actually,…