Nine Haines nonprofit groups are seeking $62,600 worth of grant money from the Haines Borough. While the borough has $65,000 set aside to allocate to nonprofit organizations in 2017, the question is whether all nine qualify for specific pools of Haines money. The $65,000 consists of $32,500 from the borough’s general fund, $15,000 from its medical […]
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Faster internet in 2017
Alaska Power & Telephone plans to offer new internet packages to Haines in early 2017 because of increased speeds and capacity with the underwater fiber-optic cable in Lynn Canal. The 86-mile cable connects Haines, Skagway and Juneau. Right now, AP&T’s lowest level broadband internet package can upload and download 768 kilobits per second. The second-lowest level […]
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Juneau road talk heats up assembly
Days before Alaska Gov. Walker was expected to address residents on the topic of Juneau access, Haines Borough Assembly members wavered over what message they would present to him. Assembly member Margaret Friedenauer requested to discuss the topic at Tuesday’s meeting so members could be on the same page about the borough’s position. The borough has historically […]
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Governor to address road, budget, ferry
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker will address a joint meeting of the Haines Borough Assembly and Haines Chamber of Commerce starting 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Chilkat Center. Haines Borough Mayor Jan Hill said Walker will have about 20 minutes to make his comments about three main topics: “the state of the state,” including the state budget deficit, a proposed makeover […]
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Conflict of interest on heliski committee?
By John Stang Five people are on a Haines Borough committee to recommend whether to approve two companies’ requests to expand their heliskiing zones. But two of those five committee members are partial owners of the same two heliskiing companies that made the requests. They are Scott Sundberg, co-owner of SEABA, and Sean Brownell, co-owner of Alaska Heliskiing. […]
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Aesthetics committee revived for uplands
Haines’ long-dormant waterfront aesthetics committee will take its first crack to brainstorm how the Haines Borough should upgrade the uplands portion of the Small Boat Harbor. Whatever the aesthetics committee recommends will then go to the Haines planning commission – a body that has long felt it has been left out of harbor expansion design matters. The […]
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People movers are the best!
Our volunteers for the People Mover Cart down at the dock are the BEST! Thanks for being very dependable and friendly: Bob Budke, Jerry Blood, Janet Nielsen, Carol Duis, Michael Marks, Jan Hill, Deanna King, Shel Scarrott, Lori Smith, and Mark and Lauren Patterson. If you would like to be down where the fun is, please […]
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Assembly hopefuls enter final stretch
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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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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Englund starts second century
One morning in late August, while she was eating breakfast, two bears appeared in Hazel Englund’s yard, searching for food scraps in the compost. It was just a month before Englund’s 100th birthday, and if she were younger, she would have gone for her gun. “She just banged on the window and yelled at them,” […]