About 100 residents turned out Friday for the unveiling of a “Healing Pole” downtown aimed at bringing awareness to domestic violence. Like headway against the problem of abuse, the pole near Second Avenue and Willard Street is a work in progress, but it’s an important start, speakers said during the event, which included drumming, dancing […]
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Time to restart search for next manager
The borough assembly should restart the search for a new manager. Our current one is not doing the job that he is getting paid for. Unfortunately the assembly made the decision to retain him after he was out the door. The public’s best interest is not being served. Now the assembly is having to deal […]
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Borough expands pellet heat dream
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott has said she wants at least one municipal building heated with wood in her lifetime. The borough assembly supersized Scott’s dream Tuesday, approving a renewable energy grant request for money to install wood-pellet boilers in the Haines School’s voc-tech building, swimming pool, Human Resources building, Visitor’s Center and borough offices. The amount of […]
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Settlement talk in Viking Cove lawsuit
Settlement discussions appear to be under way in a lawsuit involving use of a Viking Cove beachfront. Fred Einspruch of Haines sued property owners Sally Anderson and Michael Wald in state Superior Court July 11, asking the court to recognize a public right of use on a section of beachfront land owned by the couple. […]
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Borough pellet boiler option delayed
The Haines Borough will look to the Senior Center instead of the public safety building for installation of a wood-pellet boiler, facilities director Brian Lemcke said this week. A faulty boiler in the public safety building will be replaced in the coming weeks by another oil-burning one, he said. “I’m not comfortable with an experiment in this […]
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Berry has knowledge, concern for town
Dave Berry is running for a seat on the borough assembly. I know him to be an honest and caring individual. As a lifelong resident of Haines, he has a wide knowledge of the community and its residents. He has been involved in the community as city Mayor and member of the city council. He currently works […]
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Connelly Lake hits eagle preserve hurdle
Developers of the proposed Connelly Lake hydroelectric project must acquire permitting for ground-disturbing activities in the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve before federal agencies will move ahead with licensing of the project. In a letter released last week in which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a request by Alaska Power & Telephone to use a traditional […]
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Financial disclosure language vexes assembly
A third and expected final public hearing on a proposed Haines Borough financial disclosure law for local leaders bogged down Tuesday when assembly member Debra Schnabel raised a list of issues, including changing the definition of “sources of income.” Another change proposed for the meeting would have added real estate brokers to a list of professions that under the […]
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Draft study: No new port customers looming
There’s no impending business in ore shipments from new mines in the Yukon Territory, but the Haines Borough can improve its chances of landing such business by marketing itself as a port, members of the borough’s Port Development Steering Committee were told Thursday. A slide presentation by representatives of consulting firm Northern Economics recommended steps for the […]