With less than a week until possible adoption of a revised helicopter skiing ordinance, a mayor-appointed work group has yet to reach consensus on its most controversial elements, including numbers of skier days, a map of permitted areas, and allowing a third operator. “These are all contentious issues that will require a lengthy public process,” […]
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Borough buys ‘lawn tractor’ for $18K
The Haines Borough Assembly on Feb. 8 authorized the purchase of a lawn tractor from Bigfoot Auto Service for a cost not to exceed $17,985. It replaces a riding lawn mower. The borough also received a bid of $18,545 from Craig Taylor Equipment of Anchorage. “How big is this thing?” asked assembly member Scott Rossman. “I didn’t […]
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Loans, business help focus of presentations
Margaret O’Neal, director of operations for the Juneau Economic Development Council, is coming to Haines to give several presentations oriented toward the community’s business owners. In addition to holding three workshops, she will have room in her schedule for individual, on-site consultations. On Tuesday, February 22, O’Neal will give a lunchtime presentation at the Haines […]
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Open new areas of valley to heli-skiing
Having attended and recorded every helicopter-skiing work group committee meeting, I would like to suggest the Haines Borough areas, starting at the south side of Davidson Glacier to the southern boundary of Haines on the west side of Lynn Canal, all Haines Borough land on the east side of Lynn Canal, all Haines Borough land facing Lynn Canal on the west side north of the […]
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Police hope to revive reserves
The Haines Borough Police Department is seeking applicants for the reactivation of its volunteer reserve police officer program. Reserve officers accompany department officers and help with arrests, traffic enforcement and investigations, crowd and traffic control at events, and emergencies. “There has, in the past, been a reserve program, and it’s actually set in borough code to have […]
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Assembly OKs land sale talks
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to authorize manager Mark Earnest to negotiate with an upper valley church that wants to buy a two-acre parcel of borough land at the intersection of Haines Highway and Mosquito Lake Road. Members Joanne Waterman and Greg Goodman were opposed. The church’s lot would come from a five-acre piece the borough purchased there last […]
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HAL variance to be reheard
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 6-0 Tuesday to rehear a contested variance approved by the planning commission for a Haines Assisted Living building expansion. Resident Mike Denker, whose house abuts the HAL building, appealed a second variance the project received that puts the HAL extension within a few feet of his home. Denker told the assembly the […]
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Permit sought for boat tour
The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday postponed approval of a Chilkat Guides request to add a marine sightseeing tour to depart from Letnikof Cove, Port Chilkoot Dock or the Small Boat Harbor. “I would like to see a little bit more detail, if you are going to be using the Letnikof – what routes you intend to […]
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Borough sewer plant gets $25K rake repair
The Haines Borough this week completed a $25,000 fix to its sewage treatment plant. A broken rake drive in the main clarifying tank there meant the plant hadn’t been functioning properly, said borough projects director Brad Maynard. Sewage flows into the tank, with solids settling to the bottom, where they’re raked into a hole at the bottom […]
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More skier days, 3rd operator proposed; Plan would up skier days to 2,600, incorporate ‘photographer days’
Resident Rob Goldberg said he stopped answering his phone following a proposal to more than double the Haines Borough’s heli-skiing skier-day limit to 2,600. Goldberg, a member of a mayor-appointed heli-skiing work group, has worked on a revised helicopter skiing ordinance with borough manager Mark Earnest and borough attorney Brooks Chandler. At Tuesday’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting, Goldberg explained […]