Arts economy focus of national training program heading to town

A team of five Haines residents will spend two years focusing on arts-based economic development in a new national training program.

Brenda Josephson and Sean Maidy, representing the Haines Borough, Sylvia Heinz and Jeremy Stephens, representing Haines businesses, and Carol Tuynman, representing an arts organization, were one of seven county-based teams selected to participate. The technical assistance and training program, called the “NACo Creative Counties Placemaking Challenge,” is sponsored by the National Association of…