During the first meeting of the new year, Haines Borough Assembly members discussed two long-running issues leftover from previous years and administrations. 

In addition to extensive testimony on the Lutak Dock, the group met in executive session to discuss a legal dispute with George and Lynette Campbell over an airstrip they built about 26 miles from Haines. The Campbells had two appeals in a superior court over assembly and borough manager decisions made while they…

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