The Haines Borough will look to the Senior Center instead of the public safety building for installation of a wood-pellet boiler, facilities director Brian Lemcke said this week. A faulty boiler in the public safety building will be replaced in the coming weeks by another oil-burning one, he said. “I’m not comfortable with an experiment in this […]

Developers of the proposed Connelly Lake hydroelectric project must acquire permitting for ground-disturbing activities in the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve before federal agencies will move ahead with licensing of the project. In a letter released last week in which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a request by Alaska Power & Telephone to use a traditional […]

A third and expected final public hearing on a proposed Haines Borough financial disclosure law for local leaders bogged down Tuesday when assembly member Debra Schnabel raised a list of issues, including changing the definition of “sources of income.” Another change proposed for the meeting would have added real estate brokers to a list of professions that under the […]

There’s no impending business in ore shipments from new mines in the Yukon Territory, but the Haines Borough can improve its chances of landing such business by marketing itself as a port, members of the borough’s Port Development Steering Committee were told Thursday. A slide presentation by representatives of consulting firm Northern Economics recommended steps for the […]

The Haines Borough is holding to its contention that the Chilkat Indian Village must pay property tax on the former Chilkat Cruises dock and beachfront property. The village owes the borough about $10,000, according to the municipality. In a letter to the tribe dated Aug. 3, contract assessor Michael Renfro lays out several arguments for the borough’s […]

As of Tuesday’s first day of classes, 280 students enrolled in Haines Borough School District schools, an 8 percent drop that would qualify the district for supplemental, “hold harmless” funding from the state. The district makes an official enrollment count, which determines its level of state funding, in October. If the numbers hold steady, the district would […]

Haines voters will cast ballots in a statewide primary election Tuesday that will determine the fate of an effort to restore the state’s coastal zone management program. A second ballot initiative would raise the maximum residential property tax exemption from $20,000 to $50,000. Voters also will cast ballots for candidates for Alaska’s sole seat in […]

On the recommendation of the Haines Borough Planning Commission, the borough will send a letter to owners of the shuttered Coliseum Theater building on Main Street, asking them to pull plywood off the windows of the structure. Dorain Gross, who manages the building for Juneau-based Gross Alaska, didn’t return phone and e-mail messages for them Monday. The […]

The Haines Borough will redouble efforts to secure $900,000 in funding for paving of Third Avenue after losing a federal earmark for the work. Funds for the work were removed from the federal Denali Commission. An Aug. 2 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office said the federal Department of Transportation properly redirected the money to the […]