The Haines Borough Assembly recently approved a $700,000 contract with Southeast Roadbuilders for road improvements in the Chilkat Lake area. The local firm was the sole bidder on the project. The repair and upgrades project started Oct. 8 and will resume next spring. PND Engineers, Inc. designed the project and is providing onsite construction services. The project […]

With the goal of becoming more energy efficient, the Haines Borough Assembly recently contracted with Alaska Power and Telephone to install 16 new LED lights along Third Avenue. The current, high-pressure sodium lights will be replaced by the LED lights, which are both brighter and more efficient, AP&T power supervisor Danny Gonce said. The total project will […]

Two contract change orders totaling more than $130,000 were approved during the Nov. 6 Haines Borough Assembly meeting without discussion. An $83,500 adjustment to the third phase of the Haines Street Improvement project and a $50,300 adjustment to the Fourth Avenue, View Street, and Lynnview Drive water-sewer upgrade project passed as resolutions in the meeting’s consent agenda. […]

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to extend manager Mark Earnest’s contract through July 2014 pending a “satisfactory” evaluation and a contract review. Members Debra Schnabel and Norman Smith were opposed. Dave Berry, Steve Vick, Joanne Waterman, and Jerry Lapp were in favor. Waterman introduced a motion to extend the contract at the Oct. 9 assembly meeting where Earnest revealed he would […]

Following a commercial Dungeness crab harvest last summer they say depleted subsistence catches here, residents may petition the state Board of Fish to expand areas closed to commercial crabbing in Lynn Canal. “This isn’t over,” said assemblyman Norm Smith, who arranged a presentation by the state Department of Fish and Game at last week’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting. “Every […]