Articles from the May 16, 2019 edition
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Assembly asks DNR to extend Constantine permit comment period
The Haines Borough forwarded borough manager Debra Schnabel’s letter to the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) requesting a 30-day...
First Tlingit photos reflect U.S. expansion in Southeast
Two weeks after the United States made its first payment to Russia for Alaska, the Tlingit people...
Choir wins big at state
After the eight-member Haines High School ensemble rang out the final note in a contemporary acapella rendition of “Africa” at the state...
Verhamme vies to break school shot put record
On the brisk afternoon of May 10, shot put throwers from Haines, Juneau-Douglas, and Thunder Mountai...
Police chief applies for UAA job
By Jenna Kunze Haines Borough Police Chief Scott is one of three applicants being considered for campus police chief at University of Alaska at...
Commission chair urges better communication with borough assembly
Since the resignation of the Haines Borough Planning Commission chair Don Turner III in April, the working relationship between the planning commissio...
Lack of census participation will cost borough state and federal funding
Every 10 years, roughly half of Haines residents jeopardize thousands of dollars in state and federal funding by ignoring U.S Census Bureau mailings,...
Committee rejects seasonal sales tax
As borough officials, staff and residents prepare for less state revenue, assembly members rejected a seasonal sales tax proposal, an idea at least...
Business Briefs
Body IQ moves up the hill After almost five years in the firehall in Fort Seward, owner and therapist Marnie Harman has moved Body IQ out of the rente...
Assembly again considers, alcohol, marijuana taxes
On Tuesday, Haines Borough Assembly members considered introducing a two percent excise tax on marijuana and alcohol. “We should allocate those...
Life is full of blessings
Each day I wake up and have a difficult time believing how wonderful things are each day. Then, as days go by, I look around and wonder, “How is it...
Bob Becker June 26 - May 4, 2019 A life well lived
Robert F. "Bob" Becker, 90, a longtime resident of Haines, Alaska, died Saturday morning, May 4,...
Duly Noted
Four members of the Makah Tribe of Neah Bay, Wash. visited Alaska Department of Fish and Game sport fish biologist Brian Elliott for a long weekend....
