About 100 residents spent more than $40,000 at local businesses during the first week of the “byHaines Shop Local and Save” program.
The injection of local spending comes as the Haines Borough is down 23 percent in sales taxes, roughly $337,000, from January through June of 2020 compared to the same time in 2019, according to borough records. The borough received $251,826 less in sales tax in July 2020, a 50 percent decrease, compared to…