School aims to open gym by mid-October

Haines has gone more than a year without public access to the school’s gym, where residents traditionally have gone to exercise, compete on the court with friends and escape winter gloom.

Haines Borough School District superintendent Roy Getchell said he plans to open the gym by mid-October but first needs to hire a supervisor. He said he will work with the Haines Borough Emergency Operations Center to devise COVID-19 mitigation protocol for the gym, which…