At the urging of Mayor Stephanie Scott, the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday introduced an ordinance to spend $15,000 to restore the senior lunch program to four days a week. The borough contribution would provide four-day service for 10 months. The assembly also: · Approved $37,000 in funding and a revised scope for the first phase of a borough […]
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Scott’s journey to city hall started with philosophy, dance
Her Honor raises flowers – and no genteel, ordered garden, either. Giant swaying bushels of peonies, froths of bleeding hearts and tangles of tulips dominate her yard, competing desperately with a wild burgeoning of thimbleberry brambles. “Gardening,” says Stephanie Scott, Mayor of the Haines Borough, “is about being content with the chaos of the now because you can trust […]
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Hess: Consider using head tax for shuttle ferry
Should the Haines Borough use cruise ship head tax funds to subsidize a shuttle boat that brings cruise passengers to Haines from Skagway? The question is one of several raised by tour operator Karen Hess in a letter to the borough dated July 9. The borough also should look at buying the former Chilkat Cruises dock, Hess […]
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Wind power meeting set
The Haines Borough will host a meeting about the potential for wind power in the Chilkat Valley at 10 a.m. Aug. 2 in the assembly chambers. Reuben Loewen, an engineer who previously worked for the State of Alaska on wind power issues, and Michelle LaBrosse, a resident and businesswoman who studied wind-power potential at a Mud Bay […]
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Borough pursuing pellet heat project
Apparently bucking the recommendations of a draft report by an energy consultant it hired, the Haines Borough is pursuing a wood-pellet-fired boiler for its public safety building. Mayor Stephanie Scott, an advocate of wood heat, said last week the borough would pursue purchase of such a boiler, following meetings with Nathan Soboleff, natural resource planner for Sealaska regional […]
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Filing deadline Friday for 2 assembly, 4 school seats
Two seats on the Haines Borough Assembly and four of seven seats on the borough school board will be decided in the municipal election Oct. 2. The candidate filing period opened July 9 and ends July 27. Borough voters also will be asked if they want to relax financial reporting requirements for elected and appointed officials. Assemblywoman Joanne Waterman, who […]
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Mayor: Tow complaint a civil matter
Mayor Stephanie Scott said there doesn’t appear to be a remedy in Haines Borough code for addressing complaints of two visitors who said they were ripped off by a local tow company. Whitehorse resident Alexander Gubergrits and wife Galina Belokopitou, whose trailer became stuck in a Chilkoot Lake campsite, paid $780 for a pull out of the spot. Tow truck operator […]
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Assembly supports ILP for Connelly project
The Haines Borough Assembly on a 4-2 vote Tuesday endorsed an integrated licensing process for the proposed Connelly Lake hydroelectric project. The assembly also rejected a proposal to charge harbor slip renters an additional $45 per year garbage surcharge to offset increased costs, and sent to committee an ordinance to raise water and sewer rates. Connelly Lake project developer […]
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Secures schools money comes through: $359K
The Haines Borough expects to receive about $359,000 in secure schools funding, following passage this week of the federal transportation bill. The legislation, signed by President Barack Obama, approves $346 million to 700 rural communities in 41 states. The money is a one-year extension of a program intended as compensation for communities that previously received a share […]
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Eagle preserve 30th birthday observance set
An Aug. 4 float trip and a ceremony in Klukwan will be held to observe the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. “We’re hoping the governor can make it,” said Evangeline Willard-Hoy, a member of the preserve’s advisory committee and chair of the group organizing the event. Mayor Stephanie Scott, advisory committee members […]