For the first time Haines High School offered a Certified Nurses Aide course to students. Beginning in March, high school students Malia Jorgenson-Geise, Grace Long Godinez and MacKenzy Dryden participated in a semester-long CNA course in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast. The program includes online classroom instruction, lab training and skills practice, which […]
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Committee recommends funding HEDC
The assembly’s Government Affairs and Services Committee unanimously recommended allocating $125,000 to the Haines Economic Development Corporation that will be used to study the structural, social and educational needs of the valley should an operating mine be built at the site of the Palmer Project. Committee members Cheryl Stickler, Debra Schnabel and Gabe Thomas heard a presentation […]
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Fair board cancels public meeting on drag act
The Southeast Alaska State Fair board canceled a meeting scheduled for Wednesday to take public input about the scheduling of Juneau Drag for this summer’s fair citing perceived threats from some residents. The scheduling of the event prompted opposition from some who expressed concerns that drag was inherently sexual and inappropriate for a public setting. […]
Posted inAlaska Marine Highway System, Haines Borough, News
Assembly Briefs
Mayor Douglas Olerud will compose a letter pending assembly approval that will be sent to Gov. Michael Dunleavy with questions about the state’s plan to potentially build a ferry terminal at Cascade Point. The Alaska Department of Transportation issued a memorandum of understanding with Goldbelt in March for the Alaska Native corporation to evaluate feasibility […]
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Petition is all about democracy
Since it was created as an appointed committee 21 years ago, our boroughwide planning commission has struggled in its role as an unbiased, professional body that uses code and standard practices to plan for our future and oversee orderly development of our valley. Lowlights include years of contentious appeals to our borough assembly of poor […]
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Assembly Briefs
Borough discusses AIDEA support for Lutak Dock Haines Borough department heads met Aug. 27 with representatives from the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to discuss Lutak Dock repair needs. AIDEA is a state-funded entity with a stated mission of diversifying the Alaska economy and creating jobs “by facilitating the financing of industrial, manufacturing and energy facilities, infrastructure, […]
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Effort to elect planning commission advances
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 […]