(File photo/Chilkat Valley News)

The Haines Pool reopened after a monthlong closure in June. 

While it was closed — due to an 11-month budget — staff used the time to give the building something of a facelift and tackle some years-long maintenance projects. 

Pool manager Jae McDermaid said the biggest project by far was ripping out all of the old, soaking-wet, insulation in the roof. 

“The regular pink fluff, it was basically like pink goo…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...