U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski called Haines Borough Mayor Douglas Olerud on Tuesday with some long and eagerly awaited news: The borough has been awarded a $20 million federal grant to revitalize Lutak Dock.
“I’m ecstatic. This is huge for Haines,” Olerud said. “We’ve been working on this for a long time.”
The grant, which is from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, will cover almost all…
