The Haines Borough Public Library is planning to reopen Fridays and evenings, provided it can bring on the necessary staff and volunteers.
COVID-19 and budget cuts caused the library to scale back hours in 2020. The library closed on Fridays beginning mid-July after the Haines Borough Assembly cut $42,000 from the facility’s roughly $450,000 budget to help offset reductions in state funding and an anticipated loss of sales tax revenue from the COVID-19 shutdown of…