At the state Department of Transportation shop in Haines, three-foot alders are growing between two, new, flashing road signs designating a school zone. The signs have been there at least three years. Why they’re not up in front of the Haines School is what school and police officials want to know. A similar set of […]
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Byer gets raise, contract extension
The Haines Borough school board has extended the contract of superintendent Michael Byer through 2014 and given him a 5 percent raise. Byer’s new contract represents a two-year extension to a previous, three-year contract that was due to expire June 30, 2012. The contract will pay Byer $105,000 per year, up from $100,000. The board evaluated Byer in […]
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Board OKs raises for school staff
The school district’s classified employees received a 4 percent raise and teachers received raises between 2 and 8 percent as the result of a new contract agreement between the Haines Borough School District and the local education union. The district also agreed to pay an additional $100 per month per employee for health insurance, or $1,400 per […]
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Town hall meeting to address alcohol issues
Police chief Gary Lowe will facilitate a town hall meeting 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Chilkat Center to address alcohol abuse and misuse in Haines. In the past two months in Haines, a 21-year-old died in a one-vehicle accident that involved alcohol and an 18-year-old was run over during an underage drinking party. “The police […]
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Borough to halt rec center study, pursue planning
The Haines Borough will halt a $14,442 study aimed at determining the need for a recreation center in Haines. Instead, the borough assembly will seek “requests for qualifications” from interested parties to help with planning. Tuesday’s assembly decision followed local confusion about the status of a “programming” study by MRV Architects of Juneau that examined the former […]
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Senior-laden team aims for state; Volleyball season kicks off next week at Wrangell
The Haines volleyball team returns six seniors for another run at the state tournament. “We’ve got one goal: We want to go to state,” said coach Judy Erekson. “We have six seniors and the schedule lines up well. They’re excited and playing a lot more aggressively.” The Glacier Bears will open their season Sept. 2-3 […]
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Trooper: Snagging incident intentional
Pittsburgh Pirates top draft pick Gerrit Cole was in a group of friends who knew they were fishing illegally days before they were cited for snagging salmon in a remote slough near Chilkat Lake, the wildlife trooper leading the investigation said last week. Fish and wildlife trooper Ricky Merritt said a state fisheries worker had […]
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Former cop convicted; perjury charge reduced
Former Haines Borough Police Department officer Kevin K. Kennedy on Aug. 15 was convicted of interfering with a constitutional right under color of law, a class A misdemeanor, reduced from an earlier charge of felony perjury. Judge Thomas Nave in Juneau District Court sentenced Kennedy to pay $50 and complete 80 hours community work service and a […]
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Assembly sends recall effort to ballot
Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman on Tuesday joined in unanimous votes to put their own recall elections on the ballot for the October municipal election. Resolutions for each recall vote initially were included on the consent agenda for Tuesday’s assembly meeting, which would have given the go-ahead to the recall votes without involving a separate vote […]
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Count on first day: 305
Classes resumed at Haines School Monday with a combined district enrollment of 305 students, exactly matching the official count in October 2010 and one student more than was enrolled on the first day in 2009. “It’s amazing it has stayed even all these years,” superintendent Michael Byer said this week. Byer set his budget on […]