Final count of the outstanding 41 election ballots Tuesday evening placed Sean Maidy as the second assembly seat victor, just two votes ahead of opponent Paul Rogers at 414-412. Maidy, originally behind Rogers by three votes in an unofficial counting last week, credits his victory to supporters showing up to the polls that hadn’t before. […]
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Marine Highway System proposes changes to Upper Lynn Canal service
The plan to run two Alaska Class Ferry day boats, the M/V Tazlina and M/V Hubbard, in the Upper Lynn Canal might get scrapped as the Alaska Marine Highway Service is requesting funding to add crew quarters to the Hubbard and divert the Tazlina to Prince William Sound. AMHS director Shirley Marquardt told the CVN Wednesday that […]
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Borough to seek legal advice about revoking Alaska Excursions’ permit
In an effort to shield the borough from legal liability, borough staff last week halted public discussions about revoking or suspending Alaska Excursions tour permits at Glacier Point at the assembly’s commerce committee meeting. At Tuesday’s regular assembly meeting, the assembly voted 6-0 to refer the matter to the borough’s attorney. Alaska Excursions owner Robert […]
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Assembly members to consider revoking Alaska X tour permit
The Haines Borough Assembly‘s commerce committee will discuss next week the borough’s option to suspend or revoke Alaska Excursions’ Glacier Point tour permit after details in an Alaska State Trooper report about the drowning of tour guest Steve Willis mirrored concerns brought to the assembly by the company’s former guides in February. Willis’ widow, Sheri Willis, […]
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State Troopers report details death at Alaska Excursions glacier tour
Launching a canoe in high water too close to rapids and a corresponding engine malfunction contributed to the death of a Nevada pastor this summer on a tour with Skagway based Alaska Excursions-a company that was criticized by former employees this spring for operating unsafely and neglecting maintenance of its equipment. Steven Todd Willis, 50, […]
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DOT to curb blind corner on Third and Main Street
The Alaska Department of Transportation will soon extend by nine feet the no-parking zone on Main Street in front of Talia’s Treasures. In an effort to address perceived traffic hazards, Haines Borough and Chilkoot Indian Association officials have been working with the DOT to improve traffic safety at intersection of Third Avenue and Main Street. Citizens have […]
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Trash police service area, push for trooper
RE: police service areas I ask that we cancel the police service areas considered to come to a vote process and replace that effort with an all-out push for re-seating a state trooper for Haines. 1. Being an election year, the timing is right to seek re-seating of our trooper, using all influence with our […]
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Tie vote stops waste ordinance from making ballot
A ballot question to create a publicly funded solid waste program stalled Tuesday after the Haines Borough Assembly’s split vote. The proposed ordinance that would levy up-to-a-1-percent sales tax to pay for the program passed during its first public hearing after Mayor Jan Hill broke a 3-3 tie. Hill was absent from Tuesday’s meeting, attending an Alaska Municipal League meeting […]
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Question to elect boards,commissions heads to ballot
The question of whether or not voters want to elect members of the planning commission, port and harbor advisory committee, public safety commission and tourism advisory board will appear on October’s ballot. Assembly member Tom Morphet circulated the ballot initiative petition during the past two weeks and collected the necessary 250 certified signatures by last […]
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Voters one step closer to deciding on police service outside townsite
The Haines Borough Assembly advanced an amended ballot question that would allow Lutak, Mud Bay and Haines Highway residents to vote to create their own separate “on-call police service areas” that would be funded by a property tax increase. The original ordinance called for one on-call police service area that would encompass the bulk of borough land outside […]