Alcohol permits: Too many or not enough?

Applications raise conerns

Two applications for public convenience beer and wine licenses in Haines have touched off a discussion about whether the municipality would have too many businesses serving alcohol and whether new licenses would create undue competition for existing operations.

Sarah Jaymot, owner of Sarah J’s Espresso Shoppe on Second Avenue, and Cambria Goodwin, owner of the Pilot Light Restaurant on Tower Road, have applied for public convenience licenses from the Alcoholic Beverage Control…