Although two of its six members were absent Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly passed the municipality’s roughly $12 million spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year. Assembly members George Campbell, Diana Lapham, Dave Berry and Mike Case voted in favor of the budget ordinance. Assembly members Joanne Waterman and Ron Jackson were absent. The budget includes $45,000 for a […]
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Preschool to discuss fate of donations
Chilkat Valley Preschool board members will meet during a finance committee meeting May 28 and discuss what will come of about $100,000 the group holds that was to be used for a new home for the school. The privately-operated preschool was expecting to have to buy a building until about a month ago, when Haines Borough […]
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Supporters: Keep highway school open 2 days weekly
Friends of Mosquito Lake School and Community Center is asking the Haines Borough to spend an additional $9,400 per year to keep the facility open two days a week as a community center. Dana Hallett, coordinator for the group, distributed copies of his proposal to the Haines Borough Assembly this week. The group said the building could be used […]
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Highway schools at crossroads
Haines Borough Manager David Sosa directed Mosquito Lake School advocates in December to describe the future of the school in relation to Klukwan School, an elementary and high school located less than five miles away inside the boundaries of the Chilkat Indian village. “If we have a situation where we have two struggling schools, that is not […]
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School produces surplus for district
Mosquito Lake School is a gem of a school. I hope to see it re-open its doors in fall 2015. This small school model is a valuable, alternative choice within our Haines Borough School District. As the satellite school in the Haines district, the school is a feeder school. It generates a surplus in funding when […]
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Gym open three mornings
The Haines Borough School District has opened the Karl Ward Gym, weight room and showers from 6 to 7:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Sessions cost $2 or $20 for a 12-session pass. “It’s great to get in there and work on my game,” said Krista Kielsmeier, who showed up at 6:10 a.m. Monday to shoot hoops. […]
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Join effort to save highway school
Thank you to all who have supported Mosquito Lake School. This is an exciting time for everyone who is interested in the future of the school possibly reopening in the fall. Some of you may or may not know how wonderful and important this small school has been to Haines residents – especially in the upper valley. Friends […]
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Crime, weather left mark on 2014
The Haines Borough, its school and police department, came under new management in 2014, a year marked by lopsided weather patterns, infrastructure worries and chronic crime. Acts of courage brightened a townscape clouded as much by economic uncertainty as by months of rain. Luke Marquardt ran back into a house fire to save a friend. Novice […]
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District seeks tighter budgeting
The Haines Borough School District is changing how it budgets, aiming for greater transparency and accountability. Under new superintendent Ginger Jewell, the district is moving to “zero-based budgeting,” using projections of actual costs, including estimates from teachers, to start building next year’s school budget now. “It’s a much better way of budgeting in my opinion,” Jewell said, […]
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Preschool to seek extension on move
Still far away from a fundraising goal of $200,000, board members of the Chilkat Valley Preschool Monday agreed to seek a one-year extension of its June 30 deadline for vacating the Haines Borough’s Human Resource Building. Board chair Alissa Henry said securing grants, preparing a site and building a new structure would take at least […]