The Haines Borough Planning Commission last week backed off a plan to raise a 30-foot height restriction after hearing from firefighters that they couldn’t fight a blaze in a three-story building. Instead, the commission will recommend lowering the height restrictions along Lutak and Mud Bay roads and in General Use zones to match the 30-foot limit throughout the borough. […]
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Harbor group likes $37 million option
The Haines Borough’s Port and Harbor Advisory Committee on Feb. 2 endorsed a $37.3 million Lutak Dock rebuild option. It’s a variation of a $32 million alternative favored by borough staff that encapsulates the decaying dock, but it adds $5 million to address an eroded section on the earthen dock’s face. Jeremy Stephens, who worked as an […]
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Police Report
Monday, June 29 A caller reported there were no flaggers to direct traffic around construction work on Allen Road. Officers checked the site and found the road was closed, with adequate signage. Multiple callers reported loud explosions on Mud Bay Road. Police responded and found the noise was from an accelerant used to ignite a […]
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Court report
Kristopher T. Morden, 47, was convicted April 24 of unlawfully harvesting commercial Dungeness crab. Morden harvested crab on Oct. 1, 2011, in Tanani Bay prior to the season opening. He was sentenced to one year of probation, $10 in fees, and $500 in fines. James Studley, 55, was convicted on Dec. 28, 2011, of driving […]
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Assembly takes up taxes, cuts
Haines Borough Assembly members voiced support for reducing or eliminating dedication of sales taxes, and pursuing new alcohol, tobacco and marijuana taxes during a workshop Tuesday aimed at providing direction to staff developing next year’s budget. There was also support voiced for a severance tax and for billing insurance for ambulance calls. But the meeting […]
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Assembly extends lobbyist’s hire
The Haines Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to keep lobbyist Bill Thomas on the job until June, to advertise for a permanent borough manager in Alaska only and to award a $71,000 marine mammal monitoring contract to proHNS, a local engineering firm. Thomas, 69, is a commercial fisherman and former state legislator who worked last year as borough lobbyist for […]
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Harbor trail outlined
Landscape architects for Corvus Design made their first recommendation for a Portage Cove trail and park Wednesday, based on five designs drawn up by citizens the previous three days. The proposed one-and-a-half-mile mix of sidewalks, trails and paths would extend from Portage Cove Campground to Picture Point. Landscape architect Chris Mertl said the route would […]
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Police Report
Monday, May 6 A business on West Fair Drive reported vandals had broken the windows of a business vehicle. Officers are investigating. A large boulder was reported in the road at 2 Mile Lutak Road. Police investigated a two-vehicle collision near Second Avenue and View Street. One car had backed into another, causing minor damage and no […]
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Seward weighs lawsuit; recall effort in works
Bill Seward, who was fired as Haines Borough manager in an emotional assembly 4-2 vote last week, is pursuing legal action against the borough for wrongful termination. A U.S. Coast Guard veteran with no municipal experience when he was hired in May, Seward on Tuesday hired Isaac Zorea, an Anchorage-based employment law attorney with 16 years’ experience. […]
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Year in Review: Art, public projects dominated Haines news
Advances in the arts and public projects marked much of the news in 2016, and combined, for some novel exchanges. At a Sept. 8 Haines Borough Planning Commission meeting dominated by critics of the proposed harbor expansion project, commission chair Rob Goldberg suggested a 630-foot steel wall breakwater planned for Portage Cove might someday be an attraction. […]