Are security cameras around Haines waterfront locations a good security measure or an example of Big Brother government infringing on the privacy of residents? The question was zipping around the Internet this week, in advance of a resolution before the Haines Borough Assembly to accept a $233,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for fencing […]

The Haines Borough School District is seeking an additional $250,000 from the State of Alaska for the high school gym floor replacement project, owing to a recent $130,000 estimate for asbestos abatement. The district received $250,000 for the project last year. The asbestos is contained in the glue that attaches the playing court’s maple flooring tiles to […]

To avoid “awkward” requests for Haines Borough letters to support outside funding for local organizations, Mayor Stephanie Scott said she would now seek assembly approval before responding to those inquiries. Scott at an assembly meeting last month said the borough supported state funding for American Legion, Chilkat Valley Preschool, Haines Senior Center and Takshanuk Watershed Council projects to meet a […]

The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday approved hiring a full-time executive assistant to manager Mark Earnest, a position that would cost an estimated $81,000 annually. “It was a busy workload a year ago, and it’s even busier now,” Earnest said. “We just need to find a person who would fit the criteria and be a good fit, and […]

The veterinarian who treated three ailing horses belonging to a Haines Borough police officer said the animals in mid-January were suffering “extreme neglect” and “barely alive.” “I worked many years on neglect cases and I’ve seen lots of starved animals and those were the worst-looking horses I’d ever seen. They were completely emaciated… The first few days […]

Haines Assisted Living is negotiating to buy the Thunderbird Motel as the site of a possible veterans’ home in Haines. Purchase would be funded by a $500,000 legislative appropriation secured by state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, to HAL last year for a feasibility study of a home. The appropriation also could be used to reduce HAL […]

Students appear likely to again be walking between traffic and a snow berm getting to Haines School next winter. Steve Soenksen, coordinator of the state Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program, said this week the state is advancing a $700,000 plan to build a sidewalk on the north side of Old Haines Highway […]

The Haines Borough Assembly last week approved an ordinance for spot checks of global positioning system data to monitor compliance with helicopter skiing regulations. Assemblymen Daymond Hoffman and Norm Smith were opposed in the 4-2 vote. As introduced in January, the ordinance would have required regular reporting of GPS data, but kept it confidential unless required in an investigation or court […]