The push for an outhouse at Mosquito Lake campground continued at Monday’s meeting of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee. Committee chair Rich Chapell reported a state estimate of $80,000 for a new outhouse. Committee member Lori Lapeyri Smith said she found someone who would donate an outhouse with a 50-gallon holding tank. She said […]
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Assembly adds to budget for health care, nonprofits, library
The Haines Borough Assembly approved several of member Margaret Friedenauer’s suggested budget amendments Tuesday, adding money to non-profits, economic development and contributions towards employee health insurance. It approved $5,000 toward a scrap metal recycling program, $15,000 to Community Youth Development for early education and afterschool programs, $3,000 to winter tourism promotion and $14,148 to defray increased costs […]
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Appalled at prospect of marijuana store
I would like to encourage everyone who is as appalled as I am at the prospect of a marijuana retail store across the street from our children’s beach to please write a letter of opposition to the Haines Borough and to the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (550 W. 7th Ave. Suite 1600, Anchorage, AK 99501 or […]
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Date-rape druggings reported to police
Two women drinking at bars Friday night told the police they were slipped a date-rape drug in separate incidents, according to the Haines Borough Police Department. Gina Randles, 27, said she and a friend stopped into the Harbor Bar Friday night around 11:15 p.m. Randles said she’d finished about half of her drink before feeling strange. “I […]
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Young puppeteers to stage ‘Faust’
As the Haines Borough savings dwindle, borough officials are investigating alcohol and tobacco taxes as means of increasing revenues. At the direction of the assembly, interim borough manager Brad Ryan included in his manager’s budget presentation various tax measures that would increase revenue into borough coffers, including tobacco and alcohol taxes. A handful of communities across Alaska […]
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Moment of silence, apology at meeting
At a meeting that included colorful moments, the Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday heard the tourism director explain why she recently resigned, slashed the mayor’s salary, and issued a public apology to residents barred from the borough office last year. They also voted to help cover rising costs in employee health insurance, and held a requested moment of […]
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Assembly considering ‘sin taxes’
As the Haines Borough savings dwindle, borough officials are investigating alcohol and tobacco taxes as means of increasing revenues. At the direction of the assembly, interim borough manager Brad Ryan included in his manager’s budget presentation various tax measures that would increase revenue into borough coffers, including tobacco and alcohol taxes. A handful of communities across Alaska […]
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Recall Morphet, Gregg and Lende
Recall is a minimum with these individuals: Tresham Gregg, Heather Lende and Tom Morphet! They do not listen. They have and will coerce. They have agendas, both personal and political. They do not consider the majority they are supposed to represent. And they are going down this path unless they are stopped. Morphet alone simply […]
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Committee raises sales tax questions
Should the Haines Borough and nonprofits collect sales tax on sales of goods and services? An assembly subcommittee looking at ways to raise revenues discussed those questions Wednesday, sharing information about other Southeast communities that collect sales tax on enterprise fund functions such as water and sewer, harbors and utilities. Currently the Haines Borough collects no sales tax on […]
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Market booms for vacation rentals
Haines Borough lodging tax income jumped 54 percent during the past five years and the expanding vacation rental market might explain the increase. In 2011, the borough collected $71,965 in lodging taxes from local vacation businesses. Last year the number stood at $115,716. Randa Szymanski has owned a travel agency in Haines since 1986. She […]