Tom Morphet submitted an application for a ballot initiative petition this week that would require planning commissioners to be elected rather than appointed. A controversial planning commission meeting last December motivated Morphet to seek turning the commission into an elected body after the seven-member commission, operating with only five members, voted 3-2 to permit a heliport at […]
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Assembly approves $57K brush clearing project
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to spend $57,000 to clear brush about town in an effort to reduce “bear hiding areas.” The project will remove and dispose of underbrush and trees less than 10 inches in diameter and limb larger trees to a height of 12 feet off the ground on five different areas around the […]
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Residents call for assembly to clarify events prohibition
Following a request for action from Mud Bay residents, the Haines Borough Assembly will wait for borough manager Annette Kreitzer to clarify a June letter she sent to Viking Cove owner Bill Chetney that verified his prior existing rights to operate. Residents who advanced a petition that led to the prohibition of commercial events in Mud Bay […]
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Skagway assembly okays agreement to ship ore with Yukon
The Skagway Borough Assembly unanimously rejected two proposals from Harold Jahn’s Prosperity Investments Alaska to decommission the municipality’s ore loader and dredge its harbor near the municipality’s ore terminal. The proposals drew attention from the Chilkat Valley when Jahn indicated that Haines might be a potential destination for the equipment. Skagway assembly members and Mayor Andrew Cremata […]
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The next phase of the Lutak Dock progressive design-build replacement project was approved unanimously by the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday. Several residents expressed concern about the cost of the project and urged the assembly to not move forward with the decision. The borough’s boat harbor enterprise fund will source $2.4 million of the project. A federal grant from […]
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Former resident and tattoo artist Steve “Stevie G.” Geanoulis has died. Geanoulis worked for Erin McGinnis when they opened a Pair-A-Dice Tattoo shop on Main Street in Haines in the spring of 1998. The store moved a few years later to downtown Juneau, then to Anchorage in 2014, and most recently to Wasilla. Geanoulis owned the store since 2013. […]
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Duly Noted
Former resident and tattoo artist Steve “Stevie G.” Geanoulis has died. Geanoulis worked for Erin McGinnis when they opened Pair-A-Dice Tattoo shop on Main Street in Haines in spring of 1998. The store moved a few years later to downtown Juneau, then to Anchorage in 2014 and most recently to Wasilla. Geanoulis owned the store […]
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Ore dock developer eyes private property
A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and Yukon mines. Prosperity Investments, an Edmonton-based firm whose owner has a history of unfinished projects, has proposed to buy Skagway’s aging ore loader for $1, to dismantle and move […]
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Canadian ore dock developer eyes Haines
A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and Yukon mines. Prosperity Investments, an Edmonton-based firm whose owner has a history of unfinished projects, has proposed to buy Skagway’s aging ore loader for $1, to dismantle and move […]
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Jones to fill assembly vacancy The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously for Margarette Jones to serve on the assembly until the next election in October. The seat was declared vacant following the resignation of former assembly member Tyler Huling. The motion, created by assembly member Jerry Lapp, was carried unanimously. “I know in years before we have done […]