Students board the bus at the first stop of the day on Thursday, March 6, 2025 (Will Steinfeld/Chillkat Valley News).

What would it take to get the Haines Borough School district to bus students to and from school this year? 

That’s a question parents, students, and Haines school district employees tackled during a Monday evening meeting at the former Mosquito Lake school in the upper valley. 

An estimated 30 students bus to school from in…

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