Officer Simon Ford is the Haines Borough Police Department’s acting sergeant as of this month, a temporary promotion that police chief Gary Lowe said would be the first of a few trial runs for that supervisory position. “It’s going to be for a period of four months,” Lowe said of Ford’s sergeant tenure. “Just about everybody on the department […]
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Two officers join police force ranks
The Haines Borough Police Department went for experience when adding two officers to the team this summer. Recently hired officers John Havard and Jason Rettinger both had worked as police officers in Alaska. Rettinger, 36, is a 1993 graduate of Haines High School who returned to the local department in August. He was employed as a Haines Police officer […]
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Dohrn, Moore honored with Figdor award
The Bobbi Figdor Early Childhood Education Award was presented to Pete Dohrn and Victoria Moore this week. Dohrn was honored for helping build a HeadStart playground, and Moore for her work educating her 5-year-old child, Alex, who is autistic and has Type 1 diabetes. “It was quite an honor,” Moore said. “I didn’t know Bobbi, […]
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Bradfords carry on Miles tradition
Scott and Candi Bradford’s house is filled with furniture they purchased over the years from Miles Furniture Showroom and Carpet Warehouse on Main Street. But they never thought they would some day own the store. The Bradfords bought the business on Oct. 7 from Mary Miles. Mary owned and operated the business along with her […]
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Borough to review subdivision rules
Haines Borough officials say they’ll be reviewing their rules on subdivision approval to eliminate questions that arose in the past two weeks concerning the Chilkoot Estates subdivision. The planning commission recently accepted a final plat of the subdivision. Roads and utilities include a sewage lift station and a “Y”-shaped intersection where the subdivision’s north outlet meets […]
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Festival artist featured; Svenson on cover of climbing mag
Haines painter and glass worker John Svenson explains his art and its relation to his life of mountaineering in the autumn edition of Alpinist magazine. “All climbers should draw rock faces and mountains before starting up them, regardless of ability. The act trains you to observe. As the view of the landscape travels from your […]
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Glacier Bear volleyball falls short at regionals
The Haines volleyball team came up one win short of a state tournament berth, falling twice to Mount Edgecumbe at last weekend’s regional tournament in Juneau. “If we were going to go to state, we were going to have to beat teams that were maybe even a little better than us,” said assistant coach Liana […]
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Grant to focus on healthy living efforts; Funding options may include local food, anti-smoking programs
Adding local foods to school lunches, improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and stopping youth smoking are programs that could get funding under a $2.5 million health and wellness grant recently received by Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). Former Haines Borough mayor Jan Hill is helping administer the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant that will award […]
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Upper highway roads next in line for makeover
The Haines Borough is planning for about $750,000 in improvements to upper highway roads, public facilities director Brian Lemcke said this week. “We’re just in the process now of working up some kind of a limited design that we can come out to bid with, to get as far as we can with that money as far […]
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First snow sends rigs off roads
At least eight drivers went off the road Friday and others lost control as the first measurable snowfall of the season coincided with a dramatic drop in temperatures. Some drivers were fuming that Haines Borough sand trucks weren’t dispatched until Saturday, but plow drivers said they adhered to the municipality’s policy. Six-year resident Michelle Diggins’ Chevy Suburban […]