Chilkoot sockeye escapement is approaching Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s upper escapement limit and commercial fishermen are fishing five days a week in Lutak Inlet. Nearly 84,000 sockeye passed the weir as of Wednesday, said Fish and Game area commercial fisheries biologist Wyatt Rhea-Fournier. In mid-July, low sockeye returns had Rhea-Fournier wondering where the fish were. […]
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Trash police service area, push for trooper
RE: police service areas I ask that we cancel the police service areas considered to come to a vote process and replace that effort with an all-out push for re-seating a state trooper for Haines. 1. Being an election year, the timing is right to seek re-seating of our trooper, using all influence with our […]
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If voters reject paying for police, the assembly has a choice to make
Mud Bay, Lutak and Upper Valley residents are preparing to choose whether or not they want to create an on-call police service area in their neighborhoods. If they vote yes, their property taxes will increase to pay for police respone to, essentially, imminent threats to life and property. What happens if they vote no? If any or […]
Posted inBlotter
Police Report
Monday, July 14 A caller reported an intoxicated woman stumbling along a Second Avenue sidewalk. The caller was afraid the woman might fall into oncoming traffic. Police responded but were unable to locate the woman. Border patrol reported a suspicious driver heading back toward Haines after being turned away by Canada customs officials. The driver […]
Posted inBlotter
Police Report
Tuesday, August 14 A Beach Road caller reported hearing gun shots in the area. A caller reported a juvenile not looking both ways when crossing the road at 0.5 Mile Haines Highway. A Young Road caller reported a bear in the area. Haines Police relayed a message to HARK regarding an animal emergency at 7 Mile […]
Posted inNews, Public Safety
Voters to decide on police service areas
Voters in Mud Bay, Lutak and Haines Highway who live outside the townsite will have the option to create on-call police service areas in their neighborhoods when they head to the ballot box in October. The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to approve an ordinance that, upon voter approval, will levy up to 1 mill in property taxes […]
Posted inNews, Public Safety
Residents critique ‘on-call’ police service
About 55 Haines Highway residents asked questions and aired concerns to borough officials Thursday during a community meeting at the Mosquito Lake Community Center about policing out the highway. The discussion centered around an ordinance that will ask voters in October if they want to raise property taxes to create and fund an on-call police […]
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Corrections
The King Arthur Flour Cake Bake Off results were incorrectly listed in our August 2 paper. The correct results are as follows: youth winner, Selby Long; adult winners, First Place (tie) Betsy Shiner and Shannon Cooper, Second Place Deanna Wheeler, and Third Place Jennifer Motes. In the article “Assembly advances publicly funded solid waste program” […]
Posted inCorrections
Corrections
The King Arthur Flour Cake Bake Off results were incorrectly listed in our August 2 paper. The correct results are as follows: youth winner, Selby Long; adult winners, First Place (tie) Betsy Shiner and Shannon Cooper, Second Place Deanna Wheeler, and Third Place Jennifer Motes. In the article “Assembly advances publicly funded solid waste program” […]
Posted inBlotter
Police Report
Tuesday, August 7 Police received a confidential report of drug activity in Haines. A business reported public access equipment on Second Avenue had been tampered with. Wednesday, August 8 A caller reported a motorhome blocking traffic on Main Street. A citizen reported a fuel spill on Main Street. An officer made contact with a suspicious […]