Interviews with several candidates in the Haines Borough’s October municipal election will air on cable channel 14 during the next two weeks. Bill Kurz, a videographer and political activist, conducted the interviews. He said he prepared questions for candidates. They include asking candidates their opinion on his proposal to bring the Alaska Railroad through Haines […]

Leveling at the site of the demolished primary school building last month was completed independent of concerns about contaminated soil there, said Brian Lemcke, the Haines Borough’s interim director of public facilities. He spoke with representatives from Carson Dorn Inc. of Juneau and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation before the borough public works department […]

Solo guitarist Chris Proctor, a former national finger-style guitar champion, will perform 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 in the auditorium of the Chilkat Center. “He can perform numerous, different effects on his guitar. He plays it acoustically, but he does some neat things,” said arts council president Tom Heywood. Proctor has released 10 CDs on Flying […]

Pedestrian signs, the second tier of a Haines Borough wayfinding project, are available for viewing at the Haines Borough Public Library through Friday, Sept. 23. “In keeping with Haines’ new marketing theme, ‘The Adventure Capital of Alaska,’ the signs feature local people enjoying recreational opportunities within 100 miles of Haines,” said Debra Schnabel, a former borough staffer who is a […]

A delegation of health officials hoped to spread the word about child car seat safety Tuesday, but only five vehicles stopped for a free check at the Haines Police station. In Alaska and the United States, four of five child seats are misused, and car accidents are a major cause of childhood injuries and death, said Beth […]

A federal regulation that has effectively stopped people from bringing Canadian firewood into the United States isn’t interfering with shipments of whole logs burned as firewood here. As of Aug. 1, U.S. border patrol officials must confiscate cut firewood from Canada that hasn’t been heat-treated. Ann Furgeson, plant health coordinator for the U.S. Department of […]

A small group is making a last-ditch effort to save the former elementary school and gym, saying a July vote by the Haines Borough Assembly to demolish the buildings was premature. They believe an advertised project to remove the gym floor is the beginning of the end of the building. “They’re tearing down a $2 million building […]

also by Tom Morphet Progress on a “programming study” to determine who and what might go into a renovated elementary school apparently slowed to a stop after Haines Borough facilities director Brad Maynard resigned in June. The borough assembly voted July 26 to pursue demolition of the old school building, weeks before a memo that included some […]

The Alaska Public Offices Commission on Wednesday approved a settlement with state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, for violations of election laws relating to “thank you” advertisements published in the Chilkat Valley News during his re-election campaign in 2010. Under a consent agreement signed by Thomas and two campaign treasurers – Joyce Thomas and Jim Studley – […]