Four organizations teamed up last week to teach local businesses and nonprofits how they can save money by making energy-efficient modifications to their buildings. Representatives of Southeast Conference, Alaska Energy Authority, Renewable Energy Alaska Project and Alaska Housing and Finance Corporation toured nine buildings in Haines to identify how the buildings could become more energy […]
Search results
Posted inNews
Eagle tangles with truck
A Haines man was rattled last week when a mature bald eagle flew head-on into his pickup truck and became entangled in its lumber rack. Dave Nussbaumer had left his Letnikof Estates house and was driving toward town on Mud Bay Road Friday when the bird smashed into his 1998 Ford Ranger. “(The eagle) came, […]
Posted inNews
Economic director quits, cites conflict
Haines Borough Manager David Sosa issued a statement Wednesday that community and economic development director Bill Mandeville had resigned, but that came as news to Mandeville, who said the two had agreed that he would return to work. Mandeville said he and Sosa met Tuesday to discuss what Mandeville described as a “verbal assault” in […]
Posted inNews
Borough helps eagle foundation project
The American Bald Eagle Foundation has big plans, and the Haines Borough’s community and economic development director is trying to help the nonprofit realize them. Development director Bill Mandeville said he has been working with foundation founder Dave Olerud on a development project that would expand the eagle foundation’s facility to include more display space, an IMAX […]
Posted inNews
Eagle’s death raises concern of poisoning
The American Bald Eagle Foundation is awaiting lab results to determine what killed a sick bald eagle discovered on River Road on April 5. The small, mature bird had “green stuff oozing from its beak” and was repeatedly vomiting when residents John Brower and Kathy Friedle discovered it about a half mile west of the road’s intersection […]
Posted inNews
Supporters: Keep highway school open 2 days weekly
Friends of Mosquito Lake School and Community Center is asking the Haines Borough to spend an additional $9,400 per year to keep the facility open two days a week as a community center. Dana Hallett, coordinator for the group, distributed copies of his proposal to the Haines Borough Assembly this week. The group said the building could be used […]
Posted inNews
HARK garners most support from ‘givers’
Nearly 400 Alaskans gave more than $20,000 to 10 Haines nonprofits this year through the state’s Pick.Click.Give program, which allows people to donate some or all of their annual Permanent Fund Dividend to their favorite nonprofits. The Haines Animal Rescue Kennel netted $4,525, the highest amount any Haines nonprofit received this year through Pick.Click.Give. Ninety-seven […]
Posted inNews
Nonprofits: Tax change a squeeze
Leaders of local nonprofits say proposed changes to how their organizations apply and qualify for property tax exemptions would put financial and administrative strain on them, jeopardizing their effectiveness and ability to operate in the community. The Haines Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance Tuesday that would change how the municipality grants community purpose exemptions to nonprofits. The […]
Posted inNews
Kingfisher sent for treatment
A belted kingfisher found at the Small Boat Harbor is on his way to an Anchorage bird hospital. Fisherman Norman Hughes said he found the crested seabird swimming in circles in a harbor slip. “I grabbed it and put it on the dock and it just sat there,” Hughes said. “It wasn’t moving one wing […]
Posted inNews
Researcher collides with bald eagle
Researcher Rachel Wheat, who started tracking eagles from Haines with satellite technology two years ago, said she’s had a half-dozen close calls with birds flying near her truck along the Haines Highway. Her first collision came during the Alaska Bald Eagle Festival Nov. 12, when a mature, female eagle was killed after taking off into […]