A dearth of snow this winter could lead to a blizzard of savings for the Haines Borough.
As of Tuesday, only 8.2 inches of snow had fallen downtown all winter, according to Paul Swift’s co-op weather station on Union Street.
That’s less than one-tenth the historic average for this point in winter, according to National Weather Service figures.
Those numbers translate to a lot of dormant plows. Without the need for snow removal, the…