The Haines Borough recently spent $7,500 sending three leaders on a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. The money was well spent, according to Mayor Jan Hill, assemblyman Jerry Lapp and facilities manager Brad Maynard, who made the four-day trip. The group met with U.S.senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich and staff of U.S. Rep. Don Young. Other meetings included with U.S. […]
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Posted inObituaries
Menaker taught by example, launched local efforts
A memorial will be held 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Haines Assisted Living for Vivian Menaker, a 55-year Haines resident, teacher and conservationist who helped establish Chilkat Valley Preschool and Haines Headstart. Menaker died of heart disease and cancer June 1 at the HAL facility. She was 90. "She was a teacher. She taught children, and […]
Posted inNews, Haines Borough
Borough pays for big bang
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 […]
Posted inNews, Haines Borough
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 […]
Posted inLocal News
City hears complaints, looks at taxi business
Local taxi companies might be overcharging customers, city councilor Dave Berry said last week. But the company owners deny it. Berry said there are no rates posted in cabs, and many local people believe they are being charged different rates at different times. The city sent a letter to Haines Taxi & Tours and The […]
Posted inLocal News, This Week in History
City lobbies for harbor funding
City mayor Greg Combs is asking borough mayor Jerry Lapp to share $250,000 in federal disaster funds so that the city can work on improvements to the Small Boat Harbor. The money could be used for expansion of parking and installation of restrooms, a project estimated at about $500,000, Combs said. “Although $250,000 will not […]
Posted inLocal News
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 […]
Posted inLocal News
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 […]