Haines would receive four to five ferries per week between May 1 and Sept. 30 under the Alaska Department of Transportation (DOT)’s proposed summer schedule, released Jan. 25. On the first and third weeks of the month, a ferry will dock in Haines Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. On weeks two and four, the community […]
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Beach Road residents ask for road access, power and ability to move home
At a townhall meeting Monday, Beach Road residents asked that the Haines Borough Assembly continue working to improve access to the neighborhood, which was cut off from the rest of town by a landslide on Dec. 2, although opinions differed when it came to what improved access should look like. On Jan. 22, the assembly approved construction […]
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Assembly enacts hiring freeze The Haines Sheldon Museum’s two advertised jobs positions will not be filled until the 2020 budget is finalized, an outcome of a hiring freeze enacted by the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday. “I’m here to tell you tonight that the board of directors at the Haines Sheldon Museum has implemented a hiring freeze […]
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Assembly approves access to Beach Road
Residents retrieve stranded cars, possessions Beach Road residents were able to extract cars and possessions from homes beginning Monday at noon after completion of a temporary “pioneer” road through the debris field left by the Dec. 2 landslide. As soon as Southeast Road Builders area manager Roger Schnabel and his 75,000-pound excavator finished the access […]
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Beach Road closure extended
Residents left without efficient means to access their homes Beach Road east of a barricade at the far end of Portage Cove will remain closed to the public after the Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously to extend the closure at a meeting Tuesday. Mayor Douglas Olerud originally closed the road after a Dec. 2 landslide took out three […]
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Assembly votes to advertise new manager hire
Eight months after the firing of then-manager Debra Schnabel, the Haines Borough is advertising for a new, permanent manager. On Tuesday, assembly members voted unanimously to approve an advertisement they refined over the course of several meetings in late December and early January, facilitated by consultant Lenise Henderson-Fontenot. “We had three Personnel Committee meetings, four (Committee of the […]
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Federal government extends CARES Act spending deadline
The Haines Borough Assembly voted to roll back a December spending plan for leftover CARES Act funds after the federal government approved an extension of the spending deadline for the coronavirus relief money. At the assembly’s final meeting before the end of the year, the original deadline for spending CARES Act funds, members voted to use somewhere […]
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We need people we can trust on the EOC
Brenda Josephson lost her seat on the borough assembly because many of us who voted for her the first time around were appalled by her misuse of power. Her ideological surety resulted in her denying legitimacy to anyone not in her camp and she used continual political maneuvering to undermine people not to her liking. […]
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Collaboration leads to positive hiring process
My compliments to the Haines Borough Assembly, the Personnel Committee, and the Mayor for doing a thorough job in finding the best borough manager for Haines. With the excellent facilitation skills and guidance generously provided by Lenise Henderson-Fontenot, they have taken an approach that is very likely to lead to a positive outcome. I sat in on a […]
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2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: “I don’t want to relive this year, nor should anyone else.” But tradition dictates an annual recap, which if left unwritten, would end my positive relationship with CVN bookkeeper Jane Pascoe. Plus, the newspaper is a weekly black hole of white space […]