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Planning commission debates local ferry service
In the midst of deep state budget cuts to the Alaska Marine Highway System, the Haines Borough Planning Commission debated last week whether or not...
Ryan applies for Skagway Manager job
Haines Public Facilities Director Brad Ryan is among five short-listed applicants being considered for borough manager in Skagway. Ryan, who is set...
Borough receives 14K in first quarter online taxes
The Haines Borough collected $14,731 in online sales tax revenue from January through March 31 this year, from online vendors Amazon, Netflix,...
Assembly approves budget, slight hike to property taxes
The Haines Borough Assembly set its 2020 operating budget on Tuesday, adopting a significantly lower property tax mill rate than the manager’s...
Site development permits excluded from general use
The Haines Borough Assembly passed an ordinance on Tuesday that requires land use permits for site development in the townsite, Mud Bay, and Lutak...
Aqueous storage stays in committee
On Tuesday, discussion by the Government Affairs and Services (GAS) committee of an ordinance that would ban storage of hazardous liquids within a mil...
Committee reconsiders seasonal sales, alcohol tax
A 3 percent sales tax on Alcohol and Marijuana, a five-cent fuel tax, and a seasonal sales tax were discussed at a special finance committee meeting...
It's past time to pass a responsible budget
*The following letter written by Brenda Josephson was printed last week without her name due to an error during layout. We’re reprinting it this...
Josephson proposes cuts to library, museum
The Haines Borough Assembly will hold a third public hearing on June 11 to address assembly member Brenda Josephson’s proposed budget amendments, in...
Borough Briefs
Assembly approves plastic bag ban On Tuesday, the Haines Borough joined the ranks of nine other Alaskan communities banning the distribution of...
It's past time to pass a responsible budget
For almost a decade we have known that the State of Alaska’s revenues have been in decline. Former Governor Bill Walker referred to the current...
New York architects present PC trail plans
Two represenetatives from a New York-based landscape architecture firm visited Haines from May 18 to May 23 to meet with residents, present plans for...
DNR extends comment period, but not because of borough request
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) permitting office announced Monday that it is extending the comment period for two state permits soug...
Pool switching to chlorine from salt water
Swimmers in Haines love the pool’s salt-based chlorination system, but it’s having unintended consequences—corroding the pool’s gutters,...
Borough Briefs
Employee housing rejected In a 3-2 vote last week, the Haines Borough assembly rejected an ordinance that aimed to define approval criteria and...
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...
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...
Women's choir rallies for ferries
Eight members of the Haines A Cappella Women's Choir donned sailors' caps and belted out "Ferryboat...
Constantine briefs assembly on tunnel permit applications
In an effort to refine its understanding of mineral copper, zinc, silver, gold and barite deposits at the Palmer Project, mining exploration company...
Would a wood chipper boost the economy?
As the Haines Borough explores the option of heating public buildings using wood-burning biomass boilers, instead of the diesel fuel that has...
