By Karen Garcia

The Haines Borough Assembly last week voted to enter into an agreement with the state for replacement of the Klehini River bridge near 26 Mile Haines Highway.

  The $8.3 million Department of Transportation project is slated for construction in the spring of 2016. It will replace the steel bridge with a “decked bulb-tee girder bridge,” similar to the structures crossing Big Boulder and Little Boulder creeks.

  The project also will…