Joseph Banks, a 20-year-old student at Haines’ wilderness leadership school, stopped a news reporter on Main Street on an evening last week and asked where he could find a pay phone.
According to downtown business owners, Banks’ request is not a rare one from visitors. Alaska Power and Telephone removed the last pay phones from Haines in spring 2011, but that hasn’t stopped people from asking for them.
Cell phone service is limited to the…
