The Haines Borough budget proposed by manager Mark Earnest calls for cuts to facilities and some personnel, but also includes maintaining savings of $3.93 million in two main accounts. The borough currently holds about $2.3 million in its areawide general fund balance, and a fund balance of $2.1 million in the townsite service area. The latter can be spent […]
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Smith revives assembly chair effort
Haines Borough Assembly member Norm Smith on Tuesday leveraged his vote needed for several capital improvements to get $2,300 of new chairs for the assembly members added to this year’s budget. Smith declined to vote for an amendment that would appropriate $150,000 for a new fire truck and other equipment unless other assembly members agreed to put […]
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Discovered barge lost in 1976 job
What anyone finds aboard a sunken barge in Lutak Inlet, they can keep, Tom Paddock, Jr. said this week. “They can have it. I’m retired. I don’t even want to think about it,” Paddock, a former contractor, said in a phone interview from his home in Juneau. Paddock said the vessel spotted with sonar imaging last week […]
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Stedman: Divide in legislature is widening
According to veteran state Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, the ideological divide between urban and rural legislators is beginning to influence Alaska’s future as much if not more than the traditional partisan dichotomy of Republican vs. Democrat. Stedman, who represents Haines in Senate District Q, recently wrapped up his tenth session in the Alaska Legislature. Alarmed […]
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Thanks for Hospice volunteers
Thank you to whirlwind workers and community treasures, Mardell Gunn and Diz Kistler, for volunteering to once again organize, manage, and operate the annual Hospice of Haines Spring Rummage & Bake Sale. They, along with over 70 volunteers put in over 400 hours and raised about $9,000, about one-fourth of Hospice’s annual budget. They reduced […]
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BOE upholds 24 assessments
Members of the Haines Borough Assembly acting as the Board of Equalization (BOE) Monday upheld 24 property assessments recommended by contract assessor Jim Canary. Canary said he and assistant assessor Dean Olsen have worked their way through about 100 appeals so far. The 24 cases heard at Monday’s hearing were largely the result of appellants not responding […]
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Kreiss-Tomkins: Session ‘depressing’ experience
State Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins this week said his first session in the Alaska Legislature was a “sobering” and “depressing” experience. While the job is stimulating and enjoyable, the session itself – and particularly some of the legislation that came out of it – was discouraging, he said. Passage of the massive oil tax cut, which […]