This year’s Fourth of July celebration will be markedly less festive.
Haines Borough manager Bill Seward canceled the annual fireworks show after learning resident Phil Wilde’s state-issued pyrotechnician license had expired in March.
“It’s kind of like I had to be the Grinch who stole Christmas on this one,” Seward said.
The show was also canceled in 2014, when Wilde quit putting on the show citing “drama, politics and stress,” though he returned in 2015…