Marijuana micro grows and cultivation facilities designed to allow individuals to grow or manufacture marijuana products in areas such as a spare room are included in a draft ordinance addressing commercial marijuana zoning regulations in the Haines Borough. Haines Borough Planning Commission Chair Rob Goldberg suggested during last week’s commission meeting to allow up to 150 square […]
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Morphet seeks to terminate police service beyond townsite
The Haines Borough Assembly will discuss later this month whether or not to direct Haines Borough Police Chief Heath Scott to stop responding to calls for service outside the townsite and to direct dispatchers to refer all calls from outside the townsite to the Alaska State Troopers. Assembly member Tom Morphet made the motion after former borough assembly member […]
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Solid waste group sets recycling goals
The Haines Borough Solid Waste Working Group refined a new list of goals Sept. 6 in preparation to present them to the borough assembly. Group members Burl Sheldon and Melissa Aronson compiled the list of seven goals, which the group simplified in an attempt to “stay out of the weeds.” The group has been meeting since December. […]
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Single judge could serve Skagway and Haines
Haines District Court may have a resident magistrate again, according to Alaska Court System representatives. Clayton Jones, rural court assistant who provides administrative support for the First Judicial District, said Tuesday that the court system’s longtime goal is to have a magistrate judge stationed in Haines who will also serve Skagway and Yakutat by phone. […]
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Lutak Dock plan downgraded
After its first choice was turned down for funding, the Haines Borough Assembly endorsed a less expensive Lutak Dock design plan with a decreased level of service. PND Engineers released a report in October of 2014 saying the Lutak Dock, the borough’s entry point for freight and fuel, is “near the edge” and living on “borrowed time.” It said the dock’s […]
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Assembly questions 5th Avenue expansion
An unsafe passageway behind Haines School may lead the Haines Borough to extend Fifth Avenue. Public facilities director Brad Ryan asked the school board last week for a letter of approval to forward to the Planning Commission to extend the roadway in order to make traffic flow more smoothly and safely down the one-way alley behind the school. Fifth […]
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Users beware, E. coli found in Mud Bay water
An unregulated water source for many Mud Bay and Haines Borough residents has tested positive for E. coli and a state drinking water specialist has advised residents to stop drinking the water unless they boil it. KHNS reporter Abbey Collins investigated the water source after the public radio station sponsored a listener question program. KHNS solicited questions […]
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Public criticizes proposed salary cut for mayor
The Haines Borough Assembly considered an appeal from a resident to reimburse them for the cost of providing adequate water pressure to their future home and held several public hearings on ordinances that would decrease the mayor’s annual salary and change the funding source for service areas. John Winge, Carol Tuynman and Cindy Jones, spoke out against […]
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Vacation rental gets pass
The Haines Borough Planning Commission found no violation of a vacation rental conditional use permit issued to Kim and William Chetney despite a citation from borough staff. The Chetneys have owned and operated Viking Cove Guest Homes, a vacation rental consisting of three cabins in the Mud Bay Rural Residential Zone, since 2014. In August 2014, the […]
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Union attempts to influence recall with attack ad
A statewide public employee union’s “Recall Tom Morphet” Facebook post is encouraging Haines voters to recall the assembly member for a reason not listed as the grounds for recall. Local 71 business representative Tom Brice said the advertisement is not about the grounds against Morphet in the local recall effort, but about Morphet’s breach of […]