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Mayor Stephanie Scott has appointed Danny Gonce to the Haines Borough Planning Commission seat previously filled by Pete Lapham. The seat was vacant since Lapham’s death last summer. The Haines Borough Assembly approved Gonce’s appointment Tuesday, and re-appointed Andy Hedden and Donnie Turner to the commission, all to three-year terms. Other planning commissioners include Rob Goldberg, Lee Heinmiller, Roger Maynard and […]

“Gold Rush” the reality mining show set in the Chilkat Valley’s Porcupine mining district, won high ratings in its debut season on Discovery Channel last year, but has its success translated to a boost in the number of visitors here? During its first season filming in 2010, Mayor Jan Hill and others expressed hope that the show would […]

Adding local foods to school lunches, improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and stopping youth smoking are programs that could get funding under a $2.5 million health and wellness grant recently received by Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). Former Haines Borough mayor Jan Hill is helping administer the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant that will award […]

The Haines Borough Assembly would spend up to $30,000 to remove and dispose of junk on a Small Tracts Road property under a “last resort” plan introduced Tuesday. It was unclear this week how or if the borough would recoup removal costs from landowner Lucy Harrell. “If the borough is in the position where we have to […]

The Haines Borough is looking to contractors for planning and execution of its major projects, including an expanded port and a “community” center. It also will seek at least one contractor for “special projects.” Pay for the port consultant is expected to come from a state grant; other consultants’ pay would come from economic development and engineering […]

A pending enforcement action against a Small Tracts Road property owner has cast a spotlight on the perennial issue of junked cars in the valley. The Haines Borough is now investigating ways to make disposal of wrecks more economical. The borough in April told landowner Lucy Harrell she had to clean up a former tire shop property […]

The Haines Borough’s government affairs and services committee and about 30 residents on Tuesday brainstormed how to best manage and promote the Chilkat Center to increase the building’s use. Subtracting out income from rentals, the center costs the borough about $50,000 per year. “It would behoove the borough to have someone in charge of organizing […]

Meredith Pochardt turned a summer job with Takshanuk Watershed Council into a longer stay in Haines. Pochardt last week started as the Haines Borough’s new Community Youth Development (CYD) director. “I’ve always loved Alaska,” Pochardt said. “I lived in Seward three years ago, so I was looking for a way to get back to Alaska.” […]