Nailed to the old log cabin at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds are some metal plaques, rusted and faded with age and weather. The small plaques are nearly the color of the graying logs and the names etched on them are difficult to read. But look closely and you’ll see evidence of a labor of […]

Veteran teacher Jeanne Kitayama is on special assignment for the Haines Borough School District. Her mission: To help ensure that all Haines students are reading at proficiency by the end of third grade. Kitayama’s part-time position, established on a trial basis this year, grew out of new research about developing brains and borrows from some recent, […]

According to Sheldon Museum director Jerrie Clarke, a $40,000 upgrade in the building will help guests “see the exhibits, not the carpet.” The Haines Borough Assembly on Aug. 23 approved $41,428 to replace carpet at the Sheldon Museum. “That carpet needs replacing,” said assemblyman Steve Vick. “Hopefully, it will be a different color, too.” Clarke said the museum […]

The Haines Borough has been awarded $495,840 in federal money for the acquisition of Picture Point. The U.S. Department of Transportation listed about $7 million in grants for Alaska projects in a news release last week. Money for acquisition of what the agency described as the “world-famous Picture Point” will come from a National Scenic Byways Program […]

Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman on Tuesday joined in unanimous votes to put their own recall elections on the ballot for the October municipal election. Resolutions for each recall vote initially were included on the consent agenda for Tuesday’s assembly meeting, which would have given the go-ahead to the recall votes without involving a separate vote […]

Former Haines Borough Police Department officer Kevin K. Kennedy on Aug. 15 was convicted of interfering with a constitutional right under color of law, a class A misdemeanor, reduced from an earlier charge of felony perjury. Judge Thomas Nave in Juneau District Court sentenced Kennedy to pay $50 and complete 80 hours community work service and a […]

The Haines Borough will halt a $14,442 study aimed at determining the need for a recreation center in Haines. Instead, the borough assembly will seek “requests for qualifications” from interested parties to help with planning. Tuesday’s assembly decision followed local confusion about the status of a “programming” study by MRV Architects of Juneau that examined the former […]

The Haines Borough school board has extended the contract of superintendent Michael Byer through 2014 and given him a 5 percent raise. Byer’s new contract represents a two-year extension to a previous, three-year contract that was due to expire June 30, 2012. The contract will pay Byer $105,000 per year, up from $100,000. The board evaluated Byer in […]