The Alaska Department of Natural Resources is again putting out to bid the old-growth Baby Brown and Glacier Side timber sale 37 miles north of Haines. The Baby Brown sale was canceled in June 2017 after Lynn Canal Conservation successfully appealed the sale because the state didn’t create a land use plan for the entire harvest area. […]
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AMHS draft summer schedule proposes increase from 2020
Haines would receive four to five ferries per week between May 1 and Sept. 30 under the Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT)’s proposed summer schedule, released Jan. 25. On the first and third weeks of the month, a ferry will dock in Haines Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. On weeks two and four, the community […]
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Assembly makes plan to address Haines’ bear problem
The Haines Borough Assembly’s Commerce Committee began chipping away at a plan to address the borough’s bear problem at a meeting Tuesday. The committee forwarded two recommendations to the full assembly for consideration—a proposal to loan Community Waste Solutions (CWS) $16,000 to buy 10 additional bear-proof dumpsters and a proposal to revise borough code to clarify what […]
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Duly Noted
Lauren Rutland is the new Haines Dolphins swim coach. She and husband Ryan Rutland moved to Haines from outside Saginaw, Texas, with their three dogs, two cats and two children, Carson, 5, and Archer, 4. Ryan was recently hired as a Haines Borough Police Department officer. Before moving to Haines, Lauren was doing graphic design work in […]
Posted inThis Week in History
This week in history
Jan. 1971 The usually booming local timber industry is in the throes of problems. Friday evening the Schnabel Lumber Co. shut down its veneer plant and chipper, and eliminated the night shift at the sawmill, leaving only one day shift at the mill. Alaska Forest Products mill has been closed for several weeks. According to […]
Posted inLocal News, Haines Borough
Assembly Briefs
Manager hiring process to begin Dec. 21 The Haines Borough Assembly has agreed to engage the services of consultant Lenise Henderson-Fontenot, who assisted with the school district’s search for a new superintendent, to help the borough find a new manager. Henderson-Fontenot is offering her services on a pro bono basis in the wake of the recent landslide. […]
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Haines receives massive grant to expand behavioral health services post-disaster
Local agencies and partners at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau have two weeks to spend an unprecedented $1.4 million the state is channeling into Haines to assist with stabilization and behavioral health services in the wake of the Dec. 2 landslide. “Could you use $1.4 million?” was the text Bartlett chief behavioral health officer Bradley […]
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Borough to solicit Lutak Dock development proposal from AIDEA
The Haines Borough Assembly asked interim manager Alekka Fullerton to reach out to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) regarding proposals for the repair and development of Lutak Dock. AIDEA is a state-funded entity with a stated mission of diversifying the Alaska economy and creating jobs “by facilitating the financing of industrial, manufacturing and energy facilities, infrastructure, […]
Posted inSoutheast News, Search and Rescue
Some regional resources in search for missing residents sent home
Regional assets assisting in the search for 30-year-old David Simmons and 23-year-old Jenae Larson, missing in the wake of the Dec. 2 Beach Road landslide, were sent home. Meanwhile, on Sunday, local search and rescue volunteers combed beaches looking for artifacts and debris. “We’re placing the search and rescue on a limited search and rescue […]
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Evacuees leave homes with few possessions
Your house is flooding, what do you save?-a classic hypothetical many in Haines thought they’d never have to answer until Dec. 2. “I live out Beach Road. It sounded like there was a freaking jet landing on the cabin. When I heard that, I knew exactly what it was,” Michelle Ward said. She and her […]