Between 2015 and 2016, Haines minor offense cases jumped by 101 percent, according to Alaska court records, reflecting the largest increase in minor offense case dispositions statewide. Of the 279 minor offenses logged by Haines Police and troopers in 2016, 131 were for “improper driver behavior.” According to Alaska court records, those numbers compare to 17 people […]
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School breaks ties with sports poster company
Haines Borough School District is discontinuing a contract with a Lower 48 sports merchandise company and notifying residents that the district no longer receives money from ads that local businesses are offered. All Around Sports of Boise, Idaho has been soliciting businesses in recent weeks to purchase advertising on T-shirts, saying that the ads would […]
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Borough’s population grows smaller, older
The population of Haines continued on a downward trend as another 26 people left town between 2015 and 2016. The Haines Borough also retains its distinction as the oldest community in the state, with a median age of 49.5. About 2,466 people call Haines home, according to figures recently compiled by Department of Labor and Workforce Development, […]
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Question for Haines: Is the Freeride over?
The Freeride World Tour is losing its title sponsor next year, and the tighter budget could put the Haines stop in jeopardy. Freeride World Tour general manager Julien Hess said Swatch will no longer be the competition’s title sponsor, causing a significant loss of funding for the tour of extreme ski destinations. “Regarding Swatch, the […]
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Borough manager finalists are Schnabel, Ryan
The final two local Haines Borough manager applicants both stressed their abilities to bring people together and curb controversy in borough politics during their preliminary interviews with the assembly. The assembly Friday asked four questions to in-town applicants Debra Schnabel and interim borough manager Brad Ryan, as well as out-of-town applicant Robert Jordan. It voted to continue the interview […]
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Mosquito Lake School to get advisory board
The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday approved a new advisory board to the Mosquito Lake School Community Center, but didn’t follow recommendations by the borough’s government affairs and services committee to renovate the building’s air-handling system and to agree to not sell the facility for at least three years. It costs around $29,000 to keep the community center […]
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Assembly votes for details in budget
The Haines Borough Assembly also voted 4-1 to direct borough staff to prepare printed budgets as it did in the past with tabs and with more detailed financial worksheets. Assembly member Tom Morphet made the motion and said the details are important for public scrutiny. Ryan said the details would backfire on the staff and assembly and […]
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True served 30 years as customs inspector
Longtime U.S. border agent Tom True died March 21 at the Sitka Pioneer Home, following a long decline due to dementia, and more recently, Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). His wife of 42 years, Shelley Mc Laughlin-True, was with him. For three decades, True served as an inspector for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, beginning […]
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Drugs stolen at clinic
A “small amount” of prescription painkillers and sedatives were stolen late March 16 or early March 17 during an apparent break-in at the SEARHC medical clinic. The list of stolen medications includes codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone-acetaminophen, oxycodone-HCL, morphine and fentanyl, along with lorazepam, diazepam, clonazepam, midazolam and chlordiazepoxide, according to Haines Borough police. Juneau’s SEARHC director of primary […]
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Schnabel permit OK’d, with conditions
Resident Ella Bredthauer said this week she would take a wait-and-see approach to a permit for blasting and hauling rock through her residential subdivision atop Young Road. Bredthauer made a detailed, hour-long case against the permit during an appeal to the Haines Borough Assembly last week, saying it violated code and the borough’s comprehensive plan and that […]