The Haines Emblem Club installed its officers Sunday. Pictured are Gary Stigen, junior past president; Steve Girgus, second guard; June Haas, first guard; Janice Studley, financial secretary; Michelle Stigen, treasurer, corresponding secretary and press correspondent; Jamie Knudsen, president; George Ann Smith, chaplain; Kathy Warner, recording secretary; Jeanette Baker, vice president; Joyce Town, marshal; and Libby […]

Can the Haines Borough dispose of surplus equipment through an online auction site like eBay? As members of the Haines Borough Assembly on March 27 discussed two pieces of equipment – a caterpillar 140H grader with wing blade and a Jeep and water wagon – set for disposal by public sealed bid auction to the highest bidder, assemblyman Steve Vick suggested […]

The Haines Borough Assembly last week rescinded a February disaster declaration for sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road. Borough manager Mark Earnest provided the assembly with an e-mail from Kerry Seifert, an emergency management specialist with Alaska’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, before the 5-0 vote. Member Joanne Waterman was absent. Seifert wrote “the slope has stopped or slowed movement […]

The Haines Borough received 11 applications for the vacant harbormaster position as of March 29, according to clerk Julie Cozzi. Harbormaster Ed Barrett resigned effective April 1, and the deadline for the first review of applications was last week. Barrett had been Haines harbormaster since August 2010 and previously worked as harbormaster and city manager in Whittier. […]

Jamie Knudsen is the new office manager of the Haines Chamber of Commerce, taking over the job from Joan Carlson, who’s leaving after 11 years of service to the business group. Knudsen is a Haines High School graduate who has worked here as a home health care provider, a child care worker and an airline […]

The local Democratic Party caucus will be held April 14, 10 a.m. to noon at the Senior Center. The event is open to registered Democrats and voter registration will be available on site. Deborah Vogt, party chair for House District 5, said the caucus is mostly to do party business but also will include a […]

Haines Borough Tourism Director Tanya Carlson last week said the new “Backroads Alaska” campaign aims to bring additional cruise ships to the Chilkat Valley by 2013. “The whole idea came up about two years ago from Bart Henderson here in the community, Chilkat Guides, and John Dunlap out of Sitka, with Allen Marine Tours,” Carlson […]

The job shuffle at city hall continued this week with the temporary hire of Phil Benner as harbormaster, and a four-month extension for facilities manager Brian Lemcke. Meanwhile, the Haines Borough Assembly is moving ahead with a transition plan that would give clerk Julie Cozzi responsibilities of the borough manager. Cozzi would be aided in the job […]

A meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, April 13 is aimed at determining if there’s interest enough to keep open the Haines Elks Lodge. It’s the second time in less than five years that statewide Elks officials have held a meeting here to determine whether lodge doors will stay open. The lodge’s most recent “exalted […]