Now it’s your turn. Haines voters will cast their ballots Tuesday for two highly contested seats on the Haines Borough Assembly and two non-contested candidacies for the school board. Incumbent school board members Sarah Swinton and Lisa Schwartz face no challengers. Meanwhile, the assembly terms of Diana Lapham and George Campbell are up. Lapham is running for re-election. Campbell is […]
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Haines assembly picks code review commission
The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously appointed seven people Tuesday to the borough’s new commission to review its code. Overall, the borough received 12 applications for the new Code Review Commission. The seven were assigned term lengths at random. The new three-year members are Mike Denker, Daniel Humphrey and Cynthia “CJ” Jones. The new two-year members are Deborah […]
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Assembly green-lights garbage working group
The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously decided Tuesday to create a citizens working group to study whether any garbage issues need to be tackled. The borough plans to advertise for people to join the working group. The assembly set a tentative March 1, 2017 deadline for the committee to make any recommendations. The assembly’s commerce committee recommended that […]
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Assembly members need to follow codes
To all voters in the Haines Borough, We need to make a change in our incumbent Haines Borough Assembly members. Six candidates running for two open seats shows the awareness of the people that change is needed in the borough assembly. We need new assembly members that are aware of the laws and codes that govern the Haines […]
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Six different visions proposed by Haines assembly hopefuls
Diana Lapham and Ryan Cook want to push ahead with Haines’ harbor improvements. Leonard Dubber thinks government is just too darn big. Heather Lende is the optimist. Judy Erekson is the budget numbers geek. And Tom Morphet wants to do significant surgery on how the borough is run. That’s how the six candidates for two Haines […]
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Chilkoot tour permits discussion continues
Chilkoot tour permits discussion continues How many tour operators should be allowed in the Chilkoot River corridor? And if a limit is set, how would it be enforced? Those questions arose at a Sept. 15 meeting of the Haines Borough Assembly commerce committee. But no answers came. The issue is how much tour traffic the river corridor […]
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Assembly committee talks trash
A working group might be put together to figure out if Haines’ garbage situation needs improvement. One possibility dominated a Sept. 15 Haines Borough Assembly commerce committee meeting — whether to make garbage pickup mandatory. Committee chairwoman Margaret Friedenauer said she would meet with Mayor Jan Hill about setting up such a working group to see what should be done. […]
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Building revitalization a group effort
Lots of elbow grease, laughter, long hours, sweat and camaraderie! We would like to thank all American Legion members and community members who have helped in the revitalization of our building. Thank you to our volunteers Joe Poor, Dan Lindemann, Bill Rostad, Paul Gaines, Kerry Town and others. Also, a special thank you to Haines Borough […]
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Nonprofits to receive funding
The Haines Borough Assembly took $65,000 originally earmarked for the area’s nonprofit organizations out of limbo, and approved the appropriations Tuesday. That reverses a 4-3 decision on Aug. 23 to table that appropriation decision for at least three months. Concerns about the borough’s $450,000 deficit prompted the decision to table the appropriations. “Taxpayers I’ve talked to … […]
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Assembly nails down heliskiing timetable
The Haines Borough Assembly changed the law to delay the next heliskiing mapping efforts until 2019. However, it also grandfathered in two existing applications to expand helicopter-skiing zones, allowing the borough to decide their fates in the next several months. On Tuesday, the assembly took two actions regarding applications to expand heliskiing zones. First, the assembly voted […]