A State Department proposal to eliminate seafood processing from a visa program that brings thousands of foreign students to Alaska may not have a big impact on Haines area fish plants, managers said this week. Mike Forbush of Ocean Beauty Seafoods said the change to the J-1 Summer Work Travel program should have little impact […]
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Monday, April 2 A large rock causing a traffic hazard was reported at 2 Mile Lutak Road. A 911 hang-up call was determined to be a misdial, and another 911 hang-up call was from a misdialed international number. There were two traffic stops, resulting in a verbal warning for failure to stop at a stop sign and […]
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Borough drops ‘disaster’ for slump
The Haines Borough Assembly last week rescinded a February disaster declaration for sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road. Borough manager Mark Earnest provided the assembly with an e-mail from Kerry Seifert, an emergency management specialist with Alaska’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, before the 5-0 vote. Member Joanne Waterman was absent. Seifert wrote “the slope has stopped or slowed movement […]
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Permit sought for Walker Lake hydro
Developer John Floreske Jr. is seeking a preliminary permit for a hydro-electric project at Walker Lake. The plant would generate 3,600 megawatt-hours annually, more than one-tenth of the electricity used annually by Haines and Skagway. The project, by Floreske’s Southern Energy, Inc., would build two, 15-foot wide, rock-filled dams, 250 feet and 325 feet in […]
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Monday, April 4 A caller reported a 10-inch hole that went through the pavement on Beach Road. State road crews were advised and responded. Sunday, April 3 A caller reported a tree had fallen across the incoming lane on Lutak Road. State road crews responded. An overdue aircraft was reported. The person called back to say […]
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Sunday, March 18 Callers reported trucks speeding on Fourth Avenue and Lutak Spur Road. Police told them to slow down. A caller reported he had been harassed and threatened outside a bar the previous night, but police could not verify the claim. Road crews responded to rockslides at 15 Mile and 16 Mile on the Haines Highway. […]
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Borough may drop disaster title for slump
The Haines Borough has been asked to rescind a request for a state emergency declaration related to sloughing of the Mount Ripinsky hillside at Lutak Road in January. Borough manager Mark Earnest told the assembly last week that damage so far hasn’t met the threshold for a state disaster declaration. A state declaration would make the municipality eligible to receive emergency mitigation funding. […]
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Report says import LNG for Yukon mines
The potential for shipping ore from the Yukon Territory through Haines is slim unless trucks can back-haul liquid natural gas from here on return trips to help power mines, according to a recent Haines Borough report. Residents Darsie Culbeck and Debra Schnabel returned from the Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver with the message that liquid natural gas might help […]
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Cameras at docks trigger concerns
Are security cameras around Haines waterfront locations a good security measure or an example of Big Brother government infringing on the privacy of residents? The question was zipping around the Internet this week, in advance of a resolution before the Haines Borough Assembly to accept a $233,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for fencing […]
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Weather cancels Murkowski visit
A “roundtable” discussion with Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the American Bald Eagle Foundation was canceled last month due to weather that prevented her travel. Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott this week said the visit might be re-scheduled for spring or summer. The event, open to the public, was to cover topics such as school funding, borough maintenance conditions, the federal […]