1997: Five-year-old Kyle Fossman and friend Jackie Moody try their luck landing flounder from a float in the small boat harbor. The pair caught and released one flat fish while enjoying temperatures in the mid-70s.
June 17, 1972
PUC pulls plug, stops Haines TV
Haines is without television as a result of the state public utilities commission’s refusal to award a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Haines Cable TV, present operators of the system.
Bill Armour, one of the owners of Haines Cable TV, said Thursday that he had been notified Wednesday of the commission’s action.
Haines Cable TV plans to appeal in court to change the commission’s ruling, Armour said.
At the hearing on the matter held in Haines Feb. 24, the report from the PUC said certificate holder Jack W. Brown had stated he would be able to provide programming in not longer than two days, and that if he were required to place new cable it would take at least 45 days.
Programming by the new company will be from tape which will come from Skagway to Haines following broadcast in Skagway. Present programs come by broadcast from Juneau via translator on Lynn Canal and then to a receiver transmitter which puts the program onto the cable.
The PUC report and order granting the certificate to Brown is at the post office.
June 12, 1997
Petition seeks to enlarge MBLUSA
Now comes Mud Bay, the sequel. Petitions are expected to go out late this month calling for an expansion of the Mud Bay Land Use Service Area to include the entire peninsula.
Nine months after the Haines Borough Assembly unilaterally shrank MBLUSA by 97 percent of its geographical area, a group of 10 peninsula residents intends to undo that action.
June 14, 2012
Earnest on job another year
Hiring process halted, manager reinstated. The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-1 Tuesday to retain manager Mark Earnest, reactivating a contract that gives him the borough’s top job for another 13 months.
Member Norm Smith voted in opposition. Assemblywoman Debra Schnabel, a candidate for the vacant manager’s position, had asked to be excused from that matter that was scheduled on the assembly meeting agenda as “interim borough manager appointment.”