The Haines Borough Assembly last week advanced a new tax on tobacco and marijuana products. The 4-2 vote levies a $2 excise tax on each pack of cigarettes brought or transported into the Haines Borough after Dec. 31, 2017. The ordinance also levies 45 percent of the wholesale price on other tobacco products. The excise tax ordinance levies $5 […]
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Assembly censures Morphet
With little discussion, the Haines Borough Assembly unanimously voted Tuesday to censure member Tom Morphet for violating code and the borough’s contract with its union by releasing complaints about the Haines Police Department he had compiled from members of the public. Morphet submitted the complaints to interim manager Brad Ryan in April, then released them to reporters a week […]
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Maidy named to open seat on assembly The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday appointed resident Sean Maidy to an open assembly seat after members questioned the preferred candidate’s availability. Assembly members said last week that James Hart was their preferred applicant to take Margaret Friedenauer’s open seat until the October municipal election. Hart was unable to call in […]
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Duly Noted
Christina Baskaya is helping organize a Haines High School class of 1997 reunion. Events will include a Chilkoot Lake picnic, tour of the Haines School and catered salmon buffet dinner 6 p.m. Saturday at Fort Seward Lodge. All Haines High School graduates and teachers are invited. Reach Christina for more details. Reservations, required for dinner, […]
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Duly Noted
Jerrie Clarke has made trips to Mexico, New Orleans, and Branson, Mo. since retiring in January from the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nev. The former Haines Sheldon Museum director was in town this week, visiting friends and getting her first glimpse of the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center while husband Dan Gagnon was making a […]
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Perplexed by recall, suspicious of chief
I am dumbfounded that anyone in Haines would want to recall assembly members because they asked that the police blotter be reinstated in the Chilkat Valley News. Alaska Statute 40.25.120.6 states that that information is public. There are six exceptions to what can go in the blotter, but making the police department “look silly” – […]
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Assembly passes $18 million budget
The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously approved a $17.8 million budget Tuesday, including funding $95,000 for a local economic development corporation, hiring a fifth police officer and covering increased costs of staff health insurance. Due to rising costs in borough employee health insurance, the assembly increased the borough’s contribution for employees on the borough’s “blue family plan.” On […]
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Recall election to be held on August 15
A special election to recall Haines Borough Assembly members Heather Lende, Tresham Gregg and Tom Morphet is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 15. Borough clerk Julie Cozzi received the recall petitions June 6 and three days later certified that each document had the signatures of at least 258 registered Haines voters. Cozzi submitted the certified petitions to the […]
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Assembly seat draws 4 hopefuls
Four Haines residents have submitted letters of interest for the assembly seat vacated by Margaret Friedenauer’s resignation last month. The assembly applicants are stepping onto a stage where three assembly members face a recall election, two have resigned, and the body has been publicly criticized by Mayor Jan Hill. Andrew Gray, James Hart, Sean Maidy and Sally […]
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Duly Noted
Evan Alexander Knight was born to Kendra and Alex Knight in Juneau Oct. 15. He weighed 7 lbs., 4 ozs. and measured 19.5 inches long. Kendra’s mom, Frankie Jones, and sister Gracie Jones attended the birth. Alex’s parents, David and Carol Knight, flew down from Haines. Kendra’s grandmother, Kathy Pardee-Jones was there, as well as Kendra’s uncle Matt Jones. Kendra’s great-aunt Evelyn Hazelton visited as well as aunt Zdravca Jones and cousin Andres Jones. […]