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Let people make a living

Let people make a clean living. I completely agree with Jan Hill’s response to the Mud Bay Events Petition now in the hands of the Assembly. “Why...

 

Thanks for keeping town clean

A great thing about Haines is a lot of people make a habit of picking up litter when on walks or just crossing a parking lot in town. Then springtime...

 
 By Tom Morphet    Duly Noted    May 5, 2022

Duly Noted

Whitney Morgan O’Brien was born 6:39 p.m. April 9 to Lucinda Boyce and Billy O’Brien at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. She weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz. an...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 28, 2022

Assembly votes to give ad hoc committees clearer direction

The Haines Borough Assembly decided unanimously Tuesday to give ad hoc advisory committees clearer direction by formalizing them through resolutions....

 
 By Larry Persily    News    April 28, 2022

Senate committee proposes full school debt repayment

The Haines Borough could receive about $2.1 million under a Senate Finance Committee plan to pay back municipalities across Alaska for years of...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 28, 2022

Pool users lobby assembly to keep pool open year-round

The public pool will stay open through May—a recent change made by borough manager Annette Kreitzer after pool users and the Haines Friends of the...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 28, 2022

Borough to ask state to conduct vehicle speed studies

The borough assembly voted unanimously to ask the Alaska Department of Transportation and Alaska State Troopers to initiate speed studies on two secti...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 28, 2022

Borough publishes six-year capital improvement project list

As part of the manager’s draft 2023 budget, Haines Borough staff published a six-year capital improvement project list devised through a new...

 

Equipment Day was a blast

Thank you to the many generous vendors and sponsors and volunteers who helped make Equipment Day 2022 a success. We aim to inspire the next...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 21, 2022

PC recommends commercial events in Mud Bay as conditional use

The Haines Borough Planning Commission recommended to the borough assembly that commercial events be allowed as a permitted activity in the Mud Bay...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 21, 2022

Sales, property taxes up in manager's draft budget

Haines Borough manager Annette Kreitzer released her draft budget for the upcoming fiscal year—notable changes include increased sales and property...

 

Code review commission recommends changing authority to suspend officers

The Code Review Commission on April 14 recommended to the Haines Borough Assembly a code change that would shift the power to suspend borough...

 

Tell the assembly to keep the pool open

On June 22, 1974, the entire Sullivan family – parents Patrick and Mary Lou and children Shaun, 13, Nyla, 12, Desiree, 10, Harlan, 9 and Corbet, 5...

 

The pool's on a roll, don't let the wave crash

Before we had a pool in Haines, physical educators Terry Sharnbroich and Ellen Larson brought the Haines fifth graders to Juneau each year for a week...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 14, 2022

Assembly approves phase 3 concept for Lutak Dock

The Haines Borough Assembly voted 5-1 to approve conceptual plans for Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Lutak Dock—a controversial vote for many residents wh...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 14, 2022

Possible human remains found during Haines Highway construction

Work at a small section of the Haines Highway reconstruction project was stopped Monday — and will remain suspended indefinitely — after possible...

 

Concerned about ore trucks

 I am very concerned about the potential detrimental effect that heavy ore-bearing traffic would have on Haines. It would threaten air and water...

 

Keep Haines swimming

As the borough drafts our community’s budget for the coming year, I urge them to sustain support for the swimming pool. The facility serves young...

 

A message for the top of the ziggurat

You know, Haines? I was surprised when my folklore started becoming locally useful. I didn’t begin studying the Kung Fu genre expecting it to be a h...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 7, 2022

Employment rose in February but labor shortage persists

Unemployment in the Haines Borough was at 12% in February — the lowest recorded in February since 1991, according to state data. Haines...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 7, 2022

Resignations, hiring delay leave local State Parks understaffed

The Haines Borough has gone several months without a park ranger, and Alaska State Parks’ other full-time employee in Haines — a natural resource...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 7, 2022

Students compete in Juneau's Traditional Games for first time

For the first time in Haines School history, seven middle school students, all eighth graders,...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    News    April 7, 2022

GASC to discuss Porcupine road service area

Borough leaders refined a nonprofit application for borough funding and discussed broadening which nonprofits would be eligible to apply for money...

 
 By Max Graham    News    April 7, 2022

Firm holds second town hall about landslide findings

Further monitoring is needed to predict when future slides are most likely to occur in the December 2020 Beach Road landslide, representatives of...

 
 By Kyle Clayton    Opinion    April 7, 2022

Did Pardee violate the Open Meetings Act?

The Haines Borough should communicate its interpretation of the Open Meetings Act (OMA) so it’s clear what’s required on agendas. Port and Harbor...

 

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