March 3, 1969 Archive news from 50-ish, 25 and 10 years ago. Industrial expansion will hit Haines by September. John Schnabel announced this weekend his Schnabel Lumber Company will add a veneer plant to the mill complex on Lutak Inlet including barge facilities which should affect cargo transportation in this area. “We expect to have 40 more […]
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Haines assembly issues ‘shelter in place’ order
At a meeting on Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly passed a series of resolutions and ordinances to mitigate the threat COVID-19 poses for public health and the local economy. The measures include issuing a “shelter in place” order, requiring that people entering the community quarantine for 14 days, extending last week’s emergency declaration and appropriating emergency funds […]
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Library books and information should be free
I understand the need for cutbacks and I accept that our library should not physically expand in these dire economic times. But, I am completely opposed to library patrons being charged “user fees,” as one of our borough assembly members has recently recommended. For almost as long as America has been in existence, the idea […]
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Residents build case for community center
Friends of Mosquito Lake School and Community Center board members are building a case for keeping the facility open for the coming fiscal year. At a meeting in February, Haines Borough Assembly members identified the Mosquito Lake Community Center as one of several facilities that could be offloaded in an effort to reduce the borough’s budget in […]
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Assembly: Put Ocean Rangers under DEC
The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously to send a letter to the Alaska Municipal League in support of a bill that would eliminate the state’s Ocean Ranger program and give the Department of Environmental Conservation the authority to set up a replacement oversight program through regulation. The bill would eliminate on-board marine engineers (called Ocean Rangers) who […]
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Tourism code sunsets without new one in place
On Sunday, March 1, changes to Haines tourism code reached their sunset date without replacement provisions in place. Last year, the Haines Borough Assembly added the sunset provision at the end of the tourism code revision process with the intention of passing a new ordinance by the time the old code expired. However, this spring, the Tourism […]
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Quality of life keeps people in town
The Haines Borough Assembly is talking about contraction, user fees, and shuttering quality of life components. In 1730 when a young New England printer named Ben Franklin launched his Library Company of Philadelphia paid for by users: 40 shillings for initial membership and 10 shillings yearly. It allowed its subscribers to borrow one book at a time, […]
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This Week in History
Archive news from 50, 25 and 10 years ago. Feb. 24, 1969 Television in the Haines area has become a matter of controversy. A group of some fifty subscribers have petitioned the television company to make changes in its service. A copy of the petition was sent to this paper, and is printed in full […]
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Assembly discusses swath of budget cuts
From divesting from the Chilkat Center and Mosquito Lake Community Center to closing the visitor center seasonally and rejecting the library expansion project, the Haines Borough Assembly discussed a slew of facilities and funding requirements that could be on the chopping block this budget cycle. At a four-hour workshop on Saturday, the assembly went down a list […]
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Allen Marine to offer ferry two days this month
Residents looking for ferry service to and from Juneau have an opportunity twice this month after the Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously to take responsibility for two charters with Allen Marine on Feb. 23 and 29. The public can make reservations by calling Allen Marine on dates that as of press time were still unspecified. Tickets are […]