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District seeks tighter budgeting
The Haines Borough School District is changing how it budgets, aiming for greater transparency and accountability. Under new superintendent Ginger...
Board OKs Fontenot leave, travel funds
The Haines Borough School Board Tuesday approved new, matching funding for student travel to state competitions, and one year’s unpaid leave for...
Second, full-time reporter starts; KHNS holds fund drive
Emily Files, the new, full-time reporter at public radio station KHNS, arrived in Haines this week...
Preschool to seek extension on move
Still far away from a fundraising goal of $200,000, board members of the Chilkat Valley Preschool Monday agreed to seek a one-year extension of its...
Applicants sought for 2 school board seats
A vacant seat on the Haines Borough School Board is now two. The board recently advertised to fill a seat vacated by outgoing member Brenda...
Belle Laing's life of adventure led to Haines
Belle Laing, 87, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Oct. 21 at an assisted living...
Duly Noted
Chevy Fowler and Kai Sato-Franks are the managers for the University of Alaska Fairbanks men’s basketball team, the Alaska Nanooks, reports...
With clock ticking, preschool weighs options for site
With time running out to vacate their Haines Borough-owned building by June 30, the board of the Chilkat Valley Preschool will meet 6 p.m. Monday,...
Borough voters like Hill, Jackson, Case
Haines Borough voters on Tuesday elected residents Ron Jackson and Mike Case to the assembly and chose Jan Hill for the mayor’s seat, according to...
Borough plans downtown ice rink
The basketball court at the former elementary school site will be transformed into a downtown ice skating rink this winter. Haines Borough Public...
School extends paid vacations
The Haines Borough School Board voted 5-2 Tuesday to give as much as six weeks of annual paid vacation leave to three janitorial and maintenance...
Bee gone: Event unpopular, drain on staff
The Haines School spelling bee has been squashed. Principal Cheryl Stickler said the loss of bee sponsorship by the American Legion and declining...
Elementary school wins national award
The Haines Elementary School has been named a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School, one of only three schools in Alaska and 337 in the United States to...
Vote Tuesday on leadership, school bonds
Haines Borough voters will elect a mayor and two new assembly members and decide four ballot propositions in Tuesday’s municipal election....
Changes at Klukwan School
Klukwan School students have rafted the Chilkat River and helped butcher a moose since classes started Aug. 25. The school, with 13 students,...
School board candidates give views of district
Incumbents Anne Marie Palmieri and Brian Clay are unopposed as they seek re-election to three-year terms on the Haines Borough School Board. A third,...
Ballot questions on school upgrades, 40 percent
Four ballot questions will be considered by voters Tuesday, the first involving an election policy and the subsequent three on whether to bond for...
Replacing school roof questioned
A local contractor who worked as foreman on a Haines High School roof replacement in 1999 this week questioned a proposed $1.4 million bond for replac...
Feldman looks back on 30 years as local doctor
More than 30 years after arriving here on the rumor of work, Dr. Len Feldman is closing his local practice. The last day he’ll see patients at his M...
Duly Noted
Former resident Magi Hubert reports that Haines mountains appear in the music video “Arrows,” featuring Seattle-based band Fences, which teamed...
School board frets bond approval
Expressing concerns about voter approval of $3.9 million in pending school bonds, Haines Borough School Board members Tuesday took steps toward a...
Board rejects digital meeting packet
The Haines Borough School Board on Tuesday almost voted to do away with printed meeting packets, before getting hung up on the question of providing...
Stickler will lead food service program at Haines School
Brandie Stickler has been hired as food service coordinator at the Haines School. She’ll be responsible for developing the menu at the school...
Five candidates seek 2 seats on assembly
As of Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline, five candidates had filed for two open seats on the Haines Borough Assembly. Residents Jerry Erny, Ron Jackson,...
Haines School starts; 250 students
Students showing up at Haines School Wednesday stopped for photos with the new mural painted near the school’s Main Street entrance. “It’s...