Main Street will be bathed in winding, blue lights for the holidays, replacing the illuminated, tinsel-fringed candles that served as the town’s Christmas lights for decades.
“Those things were just old and worn out,” said public works director Ralph Borders. “We’re not supposed to have stuff hanging over the road (right-of-way), anyway.”
With the help of some funding from the Haines Chamber of Commerce, the Haines Borough this year will wrap light poles downtown with…

