Shawn Bell is the Haines Borough’s new harbormaster.

Bell, 31, was appointed assistant harbormaster in April 2014. He grew up in Colorado and previously worked as a general contractor in Grand Junction, Colo. An Air Force veteran, Bell was born in Kasilof and said he’d wanted to come back to Alaska.

“Family here informed me of the (assistant harbormaster) opening and things fell together just right,” Bell said. He said he had no misgivings about…