Kathleen Menke
“Timber” the beaver working on his home construction last Tuesday in the storm water drainage ditch across from Haines Senior Village. Last week, borough employees cleared the culvert Timber had dammed with more than a truckload of sticks and trees.

To local eyewitnesses, he goes by Timber, Cleaver, The Beavs and, for those determined not to get too attached, The Beaver. In six months of work, the juvenile beaver living in the murky…