Ray Menaker, a 43-year-old Haines High School French teacher, and Bill Hartmann, a 17-year-old student, launched the town’s newspaper 50 years ago this week.
They printed it in Hartmann’s basement on a second-hand, Chandler & Price platen press that produced only a single page at a time.
“The headlines had to be hand set. It took an entire day to print 250 copies of a four-page paper,” Hartmann, 67, recalled this week. Menaker, who owned…
