Workers and lunch customers at the Haines Senior Center say the 4,800-square-foot building is warmer now that baseboard registers have been installed and a wood pellet boiler was fired up about two weeks ago.
“Definitely, the office feels warmer,” said assistant site manager Kristy Legassie.
The Haines Borough is now watching to see whether maintenance and operation costs of the pellet burner make it less expensive, over the long run, than oil heat.
About $95,000…