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Old gas station faces demolition; future of lot uncertain
The future is uncertain for the nearly two-acre property where the historic Standard Oil fuel depot once stood. Delta Western began dismantling the...
Budget introduced, property tax rate decreased
In an effort to blunt the effects of a roughly 16% percent increase in property tax assessments this year due to the implementation of a new mass...
What should we tolerate?
Thank you CVN for reporting on the protective order for domestic violence served on a Haines elected official. As a community, we need to ask...
Assembly to discuss lobbying for new phone book
The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday directed a committee to consider lobbying Alaska Power and Telephone to resume the printing of its phone book...
Special election set to elect planning commission
A special election that will ask voters whether the planning commission should be elected will be held June 6. Tom Morphet and nine other sponsors of...
Selling versus saving the heart of Haines
It’s truth or consequences time for the little .75-acre lot at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Main Street in Haines. For more than ten years it sat...
Fair works to reschedule Juneau Drag act to later time
The Southeast Alaska State Fair is working to reschedule Juneau Drag to a later time slot at the fair after the board received opposition from some...
Assembly Briefs
Mayor Douglas Olerud will compose a letter pending assembly approval that will be sent to Gov. Michael Dunleavy with questions about the state’s pla...
Leaked intelligence Communique indicates impending bear attack
Last week, the CVN covered the borough assembly’s vote to spend $57,750 for brush-clearing activities to eliminate “bear hiding areas.” Since...
Planning commission to look at selling downtown lot
To allow opportunity for more public comment, the Haines Borough Planning Commission delayed a vote until April on classifying for sale the...
Effort to elect planning commission advances
Tom Morphet submitted an application for a ballot initiative petition this week that would require planning commissioners to be elected rather than...
Assembly approves $57K brush clearing project
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to spend $57,000 to clear brush about town in an effort to reduce “bear hiding areas.” The project will...
Residents call for assembly to clarify events prohibition
Following a request for action from Mud Bay residents, the Haines Borough Assembly will wait for borough manager Annette Kreitzer to clarify a June le...
Sawmill property auction postponed
A public foreclosure auction of 24 acres of former Chilkoot Lumber Company land adjacent to a 530-foot dock was postponed this week following a...
Skagway assembly okays agreement to ship ore with Yukon
The Skagway Borough Assembly unanimously rejected two proposals from Harold Jahn’s Prosperity Investments Alaska to decommission the...
Former mayor, teacher dies at 75
Former mayor and teacher Stephanie Scott, 75, died peacefully from brain cancer Feb. 23 in Port...
Public service is a sacrifice
Serving as a Haines assembly member or other on boards is public service. It is a selfless act by citizens in a democracy to represent the voices of...
Ore dock developer eyes private property
A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and...
Assembly Briefs
The next phase of the Lutak Dock progressive design-build replacement project was approved unanimously by the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday....
Hylton hired as new Tourism Director
Former Haines resident Rebecca Hylton, 54, was hired as the borough's new Tourism Director, a...
Canadian ore dock developer eyes Haines
A Canadian developer with a murky track record says he is eyeing Haines as the site of an ore terminal that would serve “several” Alaska and...
A brief guide to surviving Haines Borough politics
From the practical to the philosophical, current and former elected officials weighed in on how assembly members can survive and thrive in their...
Why are so many assembly members resigning?
Last week Tyler Huling resigned from the Haines Borough Assembly. She’s the sixth assembly member in six years to do so. This week, the CVN spoke...
Lutak Dock design gets another go-ahead
The latest design for a renovated Lutak Dock got a thumbs up from the Haines Borough Planning Commission last week. The borough’s port and harbor...
Planning commission denies cease-and-desist appeal
An order from the borough manager to cease and desist heliport operations at Airkat Airpark was delivered to George and Lynnette Campbell last month....
