Haines Borough Police last week charged a 77-year-old Haines woman with felony second-degree assault after she allegedly ran her car into a woman on Mathias Avenue. The district attorney on Monday reduced the charges to fourth-degree assault, a misdemeanor. According to court documents, the 77-year-old repeatedly and intentionally attempted to hit the other woman with […]
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District seeks $283K budget cut
The Haines Borough school board on Tuesday looked at ways of reducing a $283,000 projected deficit in its draft operating budget for the coming year. Members identified a half-dozen options for bridging the gap during a three-hour workshop on its $4.6 million spending plan. They included cutting half of district travel ($24,000), delaying the upgrading of computers ($35,000), […]
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Three workshops, 2 hearings on budget
The Haines Borough Assembly’s month-long saga of budget meetings begins at 5:30 p.m. Monday with an overview of the document and discussion of the areawide general fund. Manager David Sosa released his draft budget for fiscal year 2016 on April 1. The assembly will discuss the townsite service area fund, Small Boat Harbor, Lutak Dock and Port Chilkoot Dock […]
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Assembly pushes harbor project past questions,
Haines Borough Assembly members and Mayor Jan Hill this week turned back efforts to extend public comment time on the Small Boat Harbor expansion project. Concerns about the project have grown in recent weeks and include cost, parking, the future of Lookout Park and adherence to the public process. Project details became critical when Haines Borough officials said last week […]
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Assembly pushes harbor project past questions, critics
Haines Borough Assembly members and Mayor Jan Hill this week turned back efforts to extend public comment time on the Small Boat Harbor expansion project. Concerns about the project have grown in recent weeks and include cost, parking, the future of Lookout Park and adherence to the public process. Project details became critical when Haines Borough officials said last week […]
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Police will investigate rogue artist
The owners of the boarded-up Coliseum Theater on Main Street this week said they were pursuing criminal charges against a Haines man who attached an unfinished artwork to the building March 19. Haines Borough Police Chief Bill Musser on Tuesday confirmed that his department is “conducting an active investigation into the complaint.” Artist Rhys Williams […]
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Blaze claims shop $50K in tools, gear
Carpenter Scott Carey was putting his life back together this week after a Saturday night fire destroyed his workshop on Chilkat State Park Road and virtually all his tools. Support of friends has made a difference, he said. “Initially, I said ‘I’m a timber framer and I don’t even have a hammer.’ Almost immediately, I […]
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Thanks to help at library event
A huge thank you to all those who helped make our Lucky LEAP a success. Thank you to the bakers of delicious desserts, some to eat that evening and some to auction off. Thank you, too, to the musicians and performers who shared their talents with us. More than $1,500.00 was added to LEAP thanks to the […]
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Waiting on weather: Skiers need 1 clear day for event
Organizers of the Freeride World Tour international ski and snowboard competition this week pinned their hopes for staging the event on a forecast for clear weather Thursday. The one-day event has been repeatedly postponed since Saturday, March 14 for conditions including bad weather and avalanche danger. The skiers and film crew were ready to hit […]
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Heli-ski area open for 1 year
The Bureau of Land Management is opening more than 66,000 acres of land south of Haines to heli-skiing, an area that has been closed to the activity since 2009. BLM recently issued permits to Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures, Alaska Heliskiing and Alaska Mountain Guides to use 66,200 acres of land in the “south block” of […]