Governor Mike Dunleavy’s self-quarantine mandate hit home for Bob Lix, 89, this week after the Haines Police department called and told him, and his family, not to leave his apartment. Police also told Ian Seward and out-of-towner Tyler Young to self-quarantine. Young traveled to Haines from Oregon on Wednesday, March 25 to purchase Seward’s 38-foot wooden troller […]
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‘End times are here’ says self-proclaimed prophet
David Powell chose Martin Luther King Jr. Day to nail his manifesto to the door of the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau. It cost him an arrest and a $450 fine. But Powell has been respectful of people and property in Haines, according to Haines Police and clergy. “He’s not accosting people. He’s just doing his thing,” said […]
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Budget can’t support 24-hour service, chief says
Haines police chief Heath Scott said the department lacks funding to provide adequate 24-hour police service. This comment was part of a presentation Scott delivered on Feb. 12 to the Public Safety Commission, which is currently deliberating budget recommendations for the coming fiscal year, FY21. At present, Haines budgets for a five-officer police force. Scott […]
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Bear task force tackles trash disposal
Garbage wrangling was the topic of the day at the Bear Task Force meeting on Feb. 19. Discussion covered the cost and feasibility of bearproofing Community Waste Solutions dumpsters, the potential for requiring bearproof residential trash containers, and the role of education versus regulation in preventing dangerous bear-human interactions. Community Waste Solutions manager Craig Franke […]
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Bear task, force to look, at code changes
Building or buying bear-proof commercial dumpsters, drafting new code to regulate them and a push from some to kill bears who habitually feed at the landfill were among the topics discussed during Monday’s first Bear Task Force meeting. Borough manager Debra Schnabel created the task force last fall after an increase in town bear activity. Dusty Trails […]
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Residents felt the heat in 2019
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s deep budget cut proposals and the ensuing battle for ferries, education, community assistance, public radio and a slew of other services dominated headlines this year. The town celebrated the Haines Glacier Bears cross country team after it won the state championship in October. The debate over borough-wide policing persisted another year. The […]
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This week in history
Dec. 12, 1969 The new Haines School elementary building passed its fire inspection with flying colors, as was reported on Wednesday. Assistant State Fire Marshall James H. Jaqua was highly impressed by such features of the building as classroom doors which open to the outside of the building, sheet rock walls and ceilings and concrete […]
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Maidy resigns over charter interpretation
Haines Borough Assembly member Sean Maidy resigned Tuesday, following the assembly’s 4-2 approval of a resolution interpreting charter to specifically allow for areawide emergency police service. “I resigned because I cannot be a party to an assembly who willingly and knowingly violates their own charter,” Maidy told the CVN after the meeting. He emailed his […]
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Maidy hangs up on GAS committee
At a borough government affairs and services committee meeting Nov. 28, member Sean Maidy, who attended by phone, hung up on the two other committee members before they agreed to forward to the assembly a resolution interpreting charter to allow for areawide emergency police service. “I in good conscious can’t vote on this,” Maidy said. […]
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Teacher’s fire response was ‘textbook’
The effects of the Haines Borough Volunteer Fire Department’s annual Fire Prevention Week paid off last Thursday afternoon when Haines Middle School teacher Jordan Baumgartner put out a vehicle fire. “It was the first time I ever used a fire extinguisher besides when we do it at the fire department,” Baumgartner said. “Everything I did was what […]