Hailey Copinga-Sanders, 26, was hired last month as the new Haines School kindergarten teacher.
She and husband Jessie moved to Haines in November 2020 and registered as substitute teachers. School administrators asked her to take over the kindergarten class after teacher Jenae Larson was killed in the Dec. 2 Beach Road landslide.
“It was a very emotional couple months and still is,” Copinga-Sanders said.…
