Haines Borough Manager David Sosa is remaining tight-lipped on the future of the municipality’s community and economic development director position, which has remained vacant since Bill Mandeville resigned at the beginning of June. The borough hasn’t posted an advertisement for the job. When asked whether he was considering tweaking the job’s responsibilities or just leaving […]
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Officials review harbor option history
Concerns about the Small Boat Harbor project this week prompted Haines Borough staff to look into how the current design was chosen. Manager David Sosa and interim public facilities director Brian Lemcke on Tuesday started digging into the question, pulling old assembly agendas, minutes and timelines. The two discovered the Feb. 25, 2014, assembly agenda item to […]
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Residents revel; sun caps 4th festivities
“The Slayers,” a team of teenagers, upended perennial champion Kevin Shove’s squad in the Mad Raft Race and Chandler Kemp cruised to victory in the Mount Ripinsky Run during sun-drenched Fourth of July festivities in Haines Saturday. Hundreds of residents turned out at Tlingit park for games and refreshments. The line of youths waiting to serve as […]
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Progress, setbacks for downtown effort
A little more than a year after a series of Chilkat Valley News articles put a spotlight on downtown decay, two shuttered buildings have re-opened, a new, 50-room hotel is operating and the Haines Brewing Company is constructing a new building on Main Street. But advocates of revitalizing the core this week said there’s still […]
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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 […]
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Sosa: Outreach via Facebook, ‘bimbling’
If you see Haines Borough Manager David Sosa wandering the streets of town, feel free to approach him and tell him what’s on your mind. Sosa said at his town hall meeting last week that “bimbling about” town several days a week is one of his outreach strategies for engaging with the public during the work day. […]
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Exotic ales, morsels on tap for 23rd beer festival
From horchata rice beer and wild mushroom cinnamon rolls to tug of war battles and bingo games, this weekend’s 23rd Annual Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival will have plenty of treats and activities for out-of-towners and locals alike. In addition to the festival’s slew of events – the Gourmet Brewers’ Dinner, the […]
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Testimony supports waiving cruise ship fees
Haines Borough staff and local tour operators turned out this week at an assembly Commerce Committee meeting to lobby for a proposed program that would grant docking fee waivers to cruise ship companies in the hopes of boosting sales tax revenue. Community and economic development director Bill Mandeville on Tuesday presented two options for the […]
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Harbor petition denied, but analysis planned
The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday told concerned residents it would not slow plans for expansion of the Small Boat Harbor, but agreed to discuss an economic analysis of the project at a Finance Committee meeting next week. Tresham Gregg submitted an informal petition to the assembly with 100 signatures asking the borough to suspend engineering work […]
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Sign law enforcement has shopkeepers seeing red
A recent decision by Haines Borough staff to begin enforcing a controversial sign law has already inflamed a Fort Seward business owner and prompted more discussion of the law at the Planning Commission level. Debi Knight Kennedy, owner of Forget-Me-Not Gallery on Tower Road, is appealing a notice by the borough to remove her business’s off-premises sign. […]