Confused about all the planning going on at the Haines Borough? The assembly is working on a “strategic plan,” a brief, “to-do list” of upcoming projects for elected leaders, and a “comprehensive plan,” a blueprint that addresses a range of community concerns. The “comp plan” is intended to help steer borough decision-making for the next […]

It took a couple of casts for Corrie Nash, the youngest child in a Haines fishing family, to hook a career that suited her. A 2000 graduate of Haines High School, she started at University of Alaska Fairbanks, majoring in accounting and business. She lost interest and studied massage in California for a year, then […]

Haines Borough Public Facilities Director Brian Lemcke will be leaving the position effective May 1. A local bar owner and former construction contractor, Lemcke, 61, was hired eight months ago to oversee the municipality’s physical plant, a job that put him between the borough manager and department heads including the public works director and the […]

Haines miner Fred Meyer grew a field full of cabbages where a gas station stands today on Second Avenue. At the site of the Department of Transportation barn on Main Street, Henry Vermiere drained five acres of swampland to raise vegetables he sold around town, including celery. During the Prohibition, drinkers tapped cider from George […]

“We the People,” a local group that grew out of last fall’s Occupy Wall Street protests, may soon be advocating for increased polling by the Haines Borough and promoting the idea of discounts at local stores for use of cash instead of credit cards. The group also will sponsor a student debate 7 p.m. Monday in the […]

The potential for shipping ore from the Yukon Territory through Haines is slim unless trucks can back-haul liquid natural gas from here on return trips to help power mines, according to a recent Haines Borough report. Residents Darsie Culbeck and Debra Schnabel returned from the Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver with the message that liquid natural gas might help […]

The Haines Borough should reconsider the salt chlorination system at its swimming pool in the wake of the failure of a stainless steel tank there that apparently developed problems within a year of its installation, facilities director Brian Lemcke said this week. “We need to review the salt system and see if we shouldn’t look at a […]

One week after an avalanche claimed the lives of a heli-ski client and guide, key details of the March 13 accident are missing, including its precise location. Alaska State Trooper Josh Bentz said Wednesday he has asked Alaska Heliskiing four or five times for the coordinates of the accident, information he needs to complete his […]