In a public forum Wednesday, Aug. 9, the three Haines Borough Assembly members targeted for recall answered questions regarding the allegations against them in a KHNS and Chilkat Valley News public forum. While around 30 of the recall sponsors and supporters were invited to defend their views, none agreed to attend. The special election to recall assembly […]
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Police report
Monday, Aug. 10 A 17 Mile Haines Highway resident reported someone was walking around his house taking pictures. Haines Borough assessors are working on assessing properties out the highway, but they were not in the area at the time. Troopers were advised. A person reported a bear entered a coop and killed chickens on Piedad Road. The […]
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Haines votes ‘No’ to recall three assembly members
Assembly members Heather Lende, Tresham Gregg and Tom Morphet retained their seats on the assembly, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s special recall election. More than 1,050 people, 47 percent of registered voters, cast their ballots in the special election, signaling the end of a recall effort that started in April. Don Turner Jr. initiated […]
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Uber driver ditches app, plans new taxi business
A Haines Uber driver is starting her own cab company after experiencing the difficulties of the mobile transportation app in a rural community. Suzanne Ashe is in the process of starting a new taxi service called Red Cab, named after her red 2010 Chevy HHR. Gov. Bill Walker signed a bill in June that permits […]
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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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New teachers both hail from small town Alaska
The Haines Borough School District has hired two new teachers for the 2017-2018 school year, and will also have a visiting student teacher through winter break. Jordan Baumgartner will teach middle school math and science, replacing longtime teacher Patty Brown. Baumgartner grew up in Dillingham and said he and his wife, Keely, have wanted to move to […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
School board needs math lesson
The Haines Borough school board does not understand education. People learn not only from what they are “taught” but also what they observe from parents and educators. The school board taught us: 1) It is not important to learn to read or how to comprehend what we read. 2) It is not important to honor a contract and your signature on a contract […]
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Staff to reexamine pot tax
A proposed tobacco and marijuana excise tax ordinance will be divided and head back to the Haines Borough Assembly as two separate ordinances. The assembly voted unanimously Aug. 8 to separate the two taxes that charges an excise tax of $2 per pack of cigarettes, 45 percent of the wholesale price of other tobacco products, and $5 […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Support for school board conclusion
I write in defense of the Haines Borough School Board’s handling of the termination of Tony Habra as superintendent. Allowing Mr. Habra to submit a resignation letter and to pay him severance was a compromise agreed to by both parties after a series of protracted and difficult meetings. The persons who serve on our school board bring a diversity […]
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‘Alley’ is public right-of-way
In response to the letter submitted by Jim and Janice Studley in the Aug. 3 edition of the CVN, the Haines Borough would like to clarify that “the alley behind our house” is a borough-owned public Right-of-Way, therefore the issue was one of trespass on borough property as well as destruction of borough property. Thank you for […]