The Haines Borough plans to celebrate the municipality’s centennial with an expanded fireworks display, but at least one assembly member is afraid the rockets’ red glare will come too close to home. On a motion by member Scott Rossman, the assembly Tuesday approved $6,000 for Fourth of July fireworks, double the amount it spent last year. Combined […]
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Hill breaks tie, rejects raises for borough leaders
The Haines Borough Assembly May 11 voted 4-3 against giving themselves a $50 per meeting raise, with a $500 per month raise for the mayor. Under the proposed plan, assembly members also would have been compensated $50 for budget committee workshops required each year. Mayor Jan Hill cast the tie-breaking vote. She voted the raise down because she felt […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Public not served in PC Dock decision
It’s been suggested that the PC dock controversy is a tempest in a teapot. Well, maybe – but there’s another picture. Haines is being offered $5 million in grants, which won’t come again. We can still choose how to use it “probably, as long as it’s for harbor work.” Or so Bill Thomas has said. Tourism wants […]
Posted inThis Week in History
Tour permit ordinance raises larger issues
The Haines City Council on Wednesday introduced an ordinance establishing a system of city tour permits, but more work is expected before it’s adopted. Hearings will be March 21 and April 4. Residents, councilors, and members of the city tourism planning committee that drafted it expressed concerns about the ordinance on the same day it […]
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City eyes new plan for water
Roger Schnabel of Northern Timber Corp. says he might be able to supply the City of Haines with a new water source. Schnabel said that he will test water from his property at 4.5 Mile Haines Highway within the next few weeks, as well as estimate the cost of delivering the water from a high […]
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Proposal would regulate heliports
A proposal to make heliports, landing strips and float plane docks “conditional uses” in the Mud Bay Land Use Service Area is pending before the LUSA board. Drew Degen drafted the proposed ordinance in order to stop planned helicopter flights by his neighbor, Ken Seright. As written, it would require Seright to ask the board […]
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City considers collecting ambulance fees from rural residents
A mayoral proposal to begin collection of ambulance fees from non-city residents appears to be weakening. Faced with an audience of emergency response volunteers opposed to the proposal, the city’s public safety committee Tuesday voted against collection of the fees. Committee members Lynda Walker and Brian Lemcke wil carry their recommendation to the full council […]
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Tests find no radon in Piedad water supply
The Piedad Road water system, which has previously shown traces of radon in it, showed no levels of the radioactive element in its latest test. Low levels of the radioactive gas were found in the area’s water supply this winter by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. After two samplings showed radon in the system, […]
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Police chief can’t even shoot here
Police Chief Zoran Yankovich got a bit of a surprise last week while researching the city’s firearm code. According to the code, no one – not even the chief himself – can shoot a firearm inside city limits. Section 30.10.050 of the city code simply states it is illegal to discharge a firearm in the […]
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Condominium planned for Pyramid Island
A twenty-story motor court is planned for Pyramid Island, it was announced yesterday by Samanda Motor Inns. A spokesman for the company stated it will be entering formal final negotiations to purchase Mud Bay cliffs and the island within the next 30 days. Plans call for rock and stone from the cliffs to be used […]