Last week, Haines had its first counterfeit cash report of the year.

“Once it was pointed out that it was fake, it was kind of obvious,” Rachael Pattison said of the counterfeit $100, which she learned was a fake after a friend tried to use it to purchase groceries. “(The counterfeit) had a different feel to it… and on the back it had some Chinese writing that you’d have to look for to notice.”

After…