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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Permit sale rekindles talk of waste
Sale of a waste-handling business has resurrected discussion of consolidating service in Haines. Acme Transfer owner Paul Nelson has agreed to sell Acme’s utility permit to Tom Hall, owner of Community Waste Solutions. In addition, Nelson sold Hall some of the equipment associated with his waste-hauling business, including a backhoe, conveyor and scale. Nelson also […]
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Gregg beats out Lapp for assembly
It’s Tresham Gregg by a nose. Gregg beat out candidate Jerry Lapp for a Haines Borough Assembly seat by only 12 votes, according to Tuesday night’s election canvass results. The final results, which are set to be certified at the Oct. 27 assembly meeting, are Gregg, 430, and Lapp, 418. Prior to the counting of outstanding ballots at the […]
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Friedenauer wins seat; Lapp, Gregg deadlock
It’s a tie. Tuesday’s unofficial election results have Haines Borough Assembly candidate Margaret Friedenauer as the clear winner of one seat, but candidates Tresham Gregg and Jerry Lapp are locked in a dead heat for the second. Lapp and Gregg each garnered 411 votes, while Friedenauer won 629. Like Friedenauer, school board candidate Inez Gross was the clear choice of voters. […]
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Municipal election on Tuesday
Voters, take note: The town’s polling location for Election Day, Tuesday, Oct. 6, has moved from the American Bald Eagle Foundation to the Chilkat Center. The highway district’s polling place is still the Klehini Valley Fire Hall. Both locations are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters will fill two, three-year seats on the Haines Borough Assembly. […]
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Gragg, Lapp oppose minor offense ordinance
Both Tresham Gregg and Jerry Lapp assured me that if elected they would not vote in favor of the resolution to approve the policy developed by the manager on enforcement of Haines Borough minor offense ordinance 15-06-413. If the enforcement policy is not passed, the ordinance is null and void. Then they will have to start over, and not […]
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Borough employee pay: How does it stack up?
Discussion of Haines Borough employee salaries and whether the municipality offers wages competitive enough to attract qualified, successful workers usually crops up in the aftermath of failure. “You get what you pay for” and “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys” are phrases used when someone new flunks out of a job or an entire department gets […]
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Is it high time to address marijuana?
Ketchikan has the Marijuana Advisory Committee. Petersburg has a 19-person Local Marijuana Regulation Advisory Committee. Juneau has the CBJ Marijuana Committee. A tour in Skagway offers marijuana samples. In Haines, residents are wondering why the municipality hasn’t started talking about pot. Dean Lari, a longtime champion of marijuana legalization, told the assembly last week he […]
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Tresham Gregg seeks assembly seat
A third Haines resident has filed for Haines Borough Assembly. Tresham Gregg turned in his papers minutes before the borough offices closed Wednesday evening, clerk Julie Cozzi said. As such, she was unable to review or certify Gregg’s candidacy by press time. If Gregg’s papers are certified, he will vie against Jerry Lapp and Margaret Friedenauer for one […]
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Only 2 assembly candidates; filing deadline Thursday
A familiar face and a familiar voice will vie for seats on the Haines Borough Assembly this October, but if no one else files for candidacy soon, it won’t be much of a race. Former Mayor and assembly member Jerry Lapp and former KHNS news director Margaret Friedenauer have filed for office, though with two seats being vacated by assembly members Joanne […]