Mayor Stephanie Scott said she was enthused 21 residents turned out Aug. 2 for a meeting on wind power potential in the Chilkat Valley, but she isn’t expecting utility-scale development of the source any time soon. “I think the sense of the group is that it wasn’t feasible to do this,” Scott said. Scott paraphrased comments at […]
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Guides, villagers key to preserve visit
Many thanks to the Chilkat Guides for donating their time, equipment, and unparalleled enthusiasm for taking six rafts of locals and present and former state parks officials through the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve to commemorate the preserve’s 30th anniversary. Guides Ben Feldman, Steve Ritzinger, Brittany Price, Nels Niemi, John Binger and Tyler Ehrlich taught […]
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Service groups talk of merging efforts
Representatives of four Haines service organizations met Wednesday and discussed pooling volunteers and partnering to keep groups and events afloat in the face of aging memberships, declining volunteerism and a tightening economy. The meeting drew about 15 representatives of the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, Emblem Club and Uglys of Haines, as well as Haines Borough mayor Stephanie Scott and […]
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Assembly races: Studley vs. Waterman, Berry vs. Greene
Incumbent Daymond Hoffman won’t seek re-election to the Haines Borough Assembly. Instead, former City of Haines Mayor Dave Berry Jr. and tour boat captain Jonathan “Jono” Greene will vie for his vacated seat. “I need to spend time with my kids and my family,” Hoffman said this week. “The assembly takes a lot of time. It’s something I’m going to […]
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Borough may buy lunches for seniors
At the urging of Mayor Stephanie Scott, the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday introduced an ordinance to spend $15,000 to restore the senior lunch program to four days a week. The borough contribution would provide four-day service for 10 months. The assembly also: · Approved $37,000 in funding and a revised scope for the first phase of a borough […]
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Scott’s journey to city hall started with philosophy, dance
Her Honor raises flowers – and no genteel, ordered garden, either. Giant swaying bushels of peonies, froths of bleeding hearts and tangles of tulips dominate her yard, competing desperately with a wild burgeoning of thimbleberry brambles. “Gardening,” says Stephanie Scott, Mayor of the Haines Borough, “is about being content with the chaos of the now because you can trust […]
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Hess: Consider using head tax for shuttle ferry
Should the Haines Borough use cruise ship head tax funds to subsidize a shuttle boat that brings cruise passengers to Haines from Skagway? The question is one of several raised by tour operator Karen Hess in a letter to the borough dated July 9. The borough also should look at buying the former Chilkat Cruises dock, Hess […]
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Wind power meeting set
The Haines Borough will host a meeting about the potential for wind power in the Chilkat Valley at 10 a.m. Aug. 2 in the assembly chambers. Reuben Loewen, an engineer who previously worked for the State of Alaska on wind power issues, and Michelle LaBrosse, a resident and businesswoman who studied wind-power potential at a Mud Bay […]
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Borough pursuing pellet heat project
Apparently bucking the recommendations of a draft report by an energy consultant it hired, the Haines Borough is pursuing a wood-pellet-fired boiler for its public safety building. Mayor Stephanie Scott, an advocate of wood heat, said last week the borough would pursue purchase of such a boiler, following meetings with Nathan Soboleff, natural resource planner for Sealaska regional […]