Garage opens at 3rd and Dalton Bill Wilson, a mechanic with three decades’ experience in Juneau and Portland, Ore., opened Chilkat Automotive Sept. 8 in the shop at Third Avenue and Dalton Street formerly occupied by John’s Tires. “We do just about anything for cars that you can imagine,” said Wilson, who worked on transmissions […]
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Six new staff to join Haines School
The Haines Borough School District recently hired six new teachers and an assistant principal but superintendent Roy Getchell said this week the hires don’t mean the district won’t face hiring difficulties in the future. Getchell told the school board in January that seven years without increases in the state’s base student allocation would make it difficult for the district […]
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Jenae’s Playground fundraising falls short
Plans for a playground memorializing former Haines School teacher Jenae Larson have hit an unforeseen financial hurdle. The project has raised about $330,000 to date, but a Southeast Roadbuilders design-build bid – the only one submitted for the project – came in last month at $668,000, including $458,000 for construction and $197,000 for playground equipment […]
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CIV to consult with feds on Lutak Dock
The Chilkat Indian Village in February invoked its right to consult with the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) on the Lutak Dock Replacement Project. The National Historic Preservation Act provides the right for the Chilkat Indian Village to consult with MARAD and provide any information on how that project might impact resources that hold traditional […]
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Planning commission to look at selling downtown lot
To allow opportunity for more public comment, the Haines Borough Planning Commission delayed a vote until April on classifying for sale the three-quarter acre lot on Third Avenue and Main Street. The planning commission in 2012 voted to hold the parcel for 10 years before deciding on the future of the land that some want to see […]
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Effort to elect planning commission advances
Tom Morphet submitted an application for a ballot initiative petition this week that would require planning commissioners to be elected rather than appointed. A controversial planning commission meeting last December motivated Morphet to seek turning the commission into an elected body after the seven-member commission, operating with only five members, voted 3-2 to permit a heliport at […]
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Assembly approves $57K brush clearing project
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to spend $57,000 to clear brush about town in an effort to reduce “bear hiding areas.” The project will remove and dispose of underbrush and trees less than 10 inches in diameter and limb larger trees to a height of 12 feet off the ground on five different areas around the […]
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Residents call for assembly to clarify events prohibition
Following a request for action from Mud Bay residents, the Haines Borough Assembly will wait for borough manager Annette Kreitzer to clarify a June letter she sent to Viking Cove owner Bill Chetney that verified his prior existing rights to operate. Residents who advanced a petition that led to the prohibition of commercial events in Mud Bay […]
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Sawmill property auction postponed
A public foreclosure auction of 24 acres of former Chilkoot Lumber Company land adjacent to a 530-foot dock was postponed this week following a temporary restraining order. The outcry auction was scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, March 17 on the steps of the Dimond Courthouse on Fourth Street in Juneau. The auction notice cites $12 […]
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Duly Noted
Sophia Skye Hedden was born Thursday, March 3 in Juneau to Jessica Edwards and Andy Hedden. Sophia weighed 9 lbs., 7 ozs. and measured 20.5 inches long. The new family is expected home in Haines this week and friends are lining up to bring meals and meet Sophia. Both of Sophia’s grandmothers, Jessica’s mother, Marilyn Harrold of Kansas City, Mo. and […]