By Dan Lundberg Nancy DeCherney is one of eight recipients of Alaska State Council on the Arts and Alaska Humanities Forum’s 2016 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. DeCherney, executive director of the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, won the award for arts advocacy. The awards ceremony will take place Jan. 28 at the […]
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Thomas will lobby Legislature for Haines Borough
The Haines Borough Assembly on Dec. 29 authorized acting manager Julie Cozzi to draw up a $45,000, one-year lobbying contract with former state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines. Mayor Jan Hill broke a 3-3 assembly tie on whether to contract with Thomas. “You are not going to find another lobbyist who is going to represent Haines better than Bill Thomas,” Hill […]
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CVN’s 1st edition published 50 years ago this week
Ray Menaker, a 43-year-old Haines High School French teacher, and Bill Hartmann, a 17-year-old student, launched the town’s newspaper 50 years ago this week. They printed it in Hartmann’s basement on a second-hand, Chandler & Price platen press that produced only a single page at a time. “The headlines had to be hand set. It […]
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Assembly hires Ryan as manager at $96K
Following an hour-long executive session, the Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 on Dec. 29 to make facilities director Brad Ryan interim municipal manager at pay equivalent to $96,000 per year. Members George Campbell and Diana Lapham were opposed. Under terms of a letter of agreement, Ryan will continue to also perform functions of his facilities position. In […]
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Planners seeking review of trailers
The Haines Borough Planning Commission is recommending Mayor Jan Hill appoint a committee to dig into the issue of commercial trailers. “We really don’t have anything in code that addresses this, and it’s something I think we need to address,” commission chair Rob Goldberg said. Commercial trailers have been popping up around Haines in recent years: a scooter rental business […]
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Hill says community is hateful, vindictive
Haines Borough Assembly members and residents this week responded to Mayor Jan Hill’s statement describing the community as the most “hateful and vindictive” as she has seen it during her lifetime. Hill’s prepared statement, which she read at Tuesday’s assembly meeting, criticized citizen behavior and allegations. “In all my life here, through good times and bad, I […]
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Year marked by citizen involvement
Heightened citizen participation marked 2015, a year in which residents challenged municipal leaders on a range of issues, and seemingly small matters spawned prolonged debates. Harbor expansion plans and a proposed minor offenses ordinance touched off months of give-and-take, but residents also raised questions about borough meeting procedures, funding for studies of helicopter noise and […]
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Executive sessions close door on public
In the past month, the Haines Borough Assembly and its committees have met four times in closed-door sessions. According to a public notice, the assembly’s Personnel Committee may go into another executive session Friday to discuss interim manager applications, bringing that number to five. Some assembly members have questioned the practice or expressed concern about the lack […]
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Ryan among 7 manager hopefuls
Haines Borough public facilities director Brad Ryan is among seven candidates who submitted applications for the interim manager position by the Dec. 4 deadline. In his cover letter, Ryan asked the assembly to reject the idea of hiring an executive search firm to recruit its next permanent manager. “I would like to conclude by urging […]
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Committee reshuffled
The Haines Borough Personnel Committee is playing musical chairs following a realization that the committee can only have three assembly members – not four – according to borough code. The make-up of the committee came under scrutiny after a recent vote to recommend Mayor Jan Hill serve as acting manager for a month. An examination of code revealed the committee […]