The Haines Borough Police Department went for experience when adding two officers to the team this summer. Recently hired officers John Havard and Jason Rettinger both had worked as police officers in Alaska. Rettinger, 36, is a 1993 graduate of Haines High School who returned to the local department in August. He was employed as a Haines Police officer […]

Officer Simon Ford is the Haines Borough Police Department’s acting sergeant as of this month, a temporary promotion that police chief Gary Lowe said would be the first of a few trial runs for that supervisory position. “It’s going to be for a period of four months,” Lowe said of Ford’s sergeant tenure. “Just about everybody on the department […]

Haines Borough meetings will get a new look – including increased opportunity for public comment and more assembly research in advance of meetings – under plans laid out by new Mayor Stephanie Scott at a work session with assembly members Nov. 3. A list of “housekeeping” issues addressed during the session ranged from reviewing the purpose and status of […]

An ordinance to permit off-premises or “sandwich” signs as a conditional use will go to the Haines Borough’s government affairs and services committee, following weeks of assembly discussion about balancing business with an orderly downtown. Members of the assembly and Haines Borough Planning Commission have taken up the ordinance since it was introduced in June and have […]

At least eight drivers went off the road Friday and others lost control as the first measurable snowfall of the season coincided with a dramatic drop in temperatures. Some drivers were fuming that Haines Borough sand trucks weren’t dispatched until Saturday, but plow drivers said they adhered to the municipality’s policy. Six-year resident Michelle Diggins’ Chevy Suburban […]

The Haines Borough is planning for about $750,000 in improvements to upper highway roads, public facilities director Brian Lemcke said this week. “We’re just in the process now of working up some kind of a limited design that we can come out to bid with, to get as far as we can with that money as far […]

Adding local foods to school lunches, improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and stopping youth smoking are programs that could get funding under a $2.5 million health and wellness grant recently received by Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). Former Haines Borough mayor Jan Hill is helping administer the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant that will award […]