Residents Diana Lapham, Sally McGuire, Zephyr Sincerny, Sean Gaffney and Gabe Thomas filed candidacy for two vacating seats on the Haines Borough Assembly, joining applicant Paul Rogers, who registered last week. Lapham, a three-decades long Haines resident and former assembly member from 2013 to 2016, said she was solicited by community members to campaign for a […]
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Policing ballot prop stalls
A charter change for areawide policing might not make it to the October ballot. The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to hold a third public hearing for the ordinance at their Tuesday meeting to give staff time to hash out disputes in interpretation of charter language. “We’ve had some information that caused us to have more than […]
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Feds to give tax breaks for local investment
Investors that choose to spend their capital gains in Haines stand to reap significant tax breaks, while also potentially benefitting the Haines community, based on incentives offered by the federal Opportunity Zone Project. In 2018, U.S. Congress established the program as an investment tool for low-income and rural communities nationally as a way to drive […]
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Borough Briefs
KHNS receives borough funding The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously approved a $20,000 allocation Thursday to KHNS in the wake of stripped state funding. Last month, KHNS station manager Kay Clements requested the money from the assembly after Gov. Mike Dunleavy eliminated public radio funding, which amounted to about $75,000 for KHNS. To compensate for cuts, the department […]
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Decades-old fuel spill surfaces in Chilkat River a slough near 15 Mile
Contaminated groundwater from a 51-year-old fuel spill at 15.5 Mile Haines Highway appears to be leaching into the Chilkat River slough, raising concerns about environmental damage. The source of the contaminants was the 626-mile-long Haines-Fairbanks pipeline, used in the middle of the century to transport fuel from the Lutak Tank Farm to military installations in Interior Alaska. A 1968 […]
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Boroughwide policing back on the table
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to advance a charter amendment that would again put the question of boroughwide policing on the October ballot. The ordinance would amend the charter to make it legal for police to respond to calls for help from Lutak, Mud Bay, and the Haines Highway- a job they’ve already been doing in cases […]
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Decades-old fuel spill surfaces in Chilkat River at slough near 15 Mile
Contaminated groundwater from a 51-year-old fuel spill at 15.5 Mile Haines Highway appears to be leaching into the Chilkat River slough, raising concerns about environmental damage. The source of the contaminants was the 626-mile-long Haines-Fairbanks pipeline, used in the middle of the century to transport fuel from the Lutak Tank Farm to military installations in Interior Alaska. A 1968 […]
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Shoppers to enjoy sales tax free day
On Oct. 19 and March 2, Haines residents will be excused from paying 5.5% sales tax at local and online retail stores that choose to participate. Last week, the assembly unanimously passed a resolution initiating two sales-tax-free days, as recommended by “By Haines,” a Haines Economic Development Corporation and chamber of commerce buy local campaign. […]
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Thanks for 4th of July donations
On behalf of the Klukwan Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp #8, I would like to say aatlein gunalchéesh (a big thank you) to those who volunteered and donated food items to our 4th of July fundraiser: Jami Campbell, Linda and Jack Strong, Lani and Jones Hotch Jr., Douglas Adams, Mary Jane Valentine, Kathryn Carl, Justina Starzynski, Zayla Asquith-Heinz, Denise and […]