Travis Russell and Dacotah Smith were married near the shores of Whitefish Lake in Whitefish, Mont. on Oct. 17 by Ron Horn, former pastor of Haines Presbyterian Church. Dacotah wore a flowing ivory gown and a necklace passed down from her great-grandmother. Travis dressed in a Filson wool vest and a new pair of smoke-jumping boots. The couple wrote their […]
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Editor’s Note
I’m leaving for a few weeks to go commercial fishing in Bristol Bay again this summer and I want to introduce readers to two individuals who are going to work at the CVN in my absence. Jenny-Marie Stryker comes to Haines from California. She spent this winter in Anchorage working for the municipality in the […]
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Assembly introduces law to axe heliski permit cap for a year
The Haines Borough Assembly introduced an ordinance on Tuesday that would remove the cap on heliski operators in the borough for only one year. The ordinance also would require the borough manager to allocate skier days earlier in the year; it would mandate that operators pay the $5-per-skier-day fee before the season, instead of after, as current code allows; […]
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Shop Local program to return in November
The byHaines Shop Local and Save program, a voucher incentive geared to increase spending at local businesses, will return for its second year on Nov. 1. Organized by the Haines Chamber of Commerce, Haines Economic Development Corporation and Haines Borough, the program will distribute CARES Act funding to eligible residents in the form of vouchers for […]
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Mud Bay residents submit petition to assembly to ban commercial events
Mud Bay residents submitted a petition to the Haines Borough Assembly requesting a code change to prohibit commercial events in the Mud Bay Rural Residential Zone (MBRRZ), which encompasses much of the Chilkat Peninsula south of Carr’s Cove. Signed by more than 100 residents, the petition asks that commercial event venues join heliports and resource extraction on […]
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New assembly members sworn in
Assembly ups spending with excess tax revenue The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously on Tuesday to amend the fiscal year 2022 budget by $433,000, allocating funds from excess tax revenue. The borough generated $1.2 million, or 61%, more in sales tax than it had budgeted for the 2021 fiscal year. With the budget amendment passed Tuesday, the […]
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Junk cars pile up as borough seeks disposal site
Haines Borough code prohibits residents from keeping more than two unregistered vehicles on their property, yet hundreds of unusable, discarded cars are lying around Haines. There is little enforcement in part, borough staff say, because there is no place in Haines to dispose of vehicles. “It’s really difficult to find a barge even to take […]
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Duly Noted
Brandie Stickler has been accepted to the University of North Dakota’s mechanical engineering program. UND is currently one of only a few schools in the country offering their engineering students the option to do a majority of their course work through distance education, and the remainder on campus during the summer for labs. Stickler will begin classes […]
Posted inThank You Letters
Thank you for warm welcome to Haines
Time to turn away from the computer and to say thank you for such a warm welcome to Haines. Many people have offered advice, questioned me about my governmental philosophy, and been encouraging as I navigate the Borough Manager position. Many thanks to the Borough Assembly for members’ support and encouragement. If I haven’t met […]
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Potential FEMA funding delayed
The Haines Borough won’t be eligible to apply this year for millions of federal disaster mitigation dollars that could help compensate Beach Road residents for landslide damage and buy out properties threatened by future slides. A state specialist and borough staff revealed at an Oct. 13 meeting that Haines can’t apply this cycle for FEMA’s Building Resilient […]