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School to offer late afternoon 'sack supper'
Beginning next month, the afternoon bell will mean suppertime at the Haines School. The Haines Borough School Board voted last week to approve a...
School board to appoint member
The Haines Borough School Board will meet 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29 to appoint a new member and elect officers. The meeting will be held in the high...
Literacy program marks 1st year
The Haines Borough School District will adapt its early-childhood literacy program to accommodate for a shift in staffing. The program was launched a...
Schools should teach critical thinking
Last Thursday night I went to see Amy Gulick’s “Salmon in the Trees” presentation at the fairgrounds. I wanted to see what the controversy was...
School speaker decision unfathomable
Wow! I think I have heard it all. The idea that salmon and forests are interdependent is somehow controversial seems beyond bizarre. Couple this with...
Legislative candidates talk education
Democratic challenger Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins assailed state Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, and Republican funding of education at a debate Monday in...
Embarrassed by decision on Gulick talk
I am embarrassed for our community by the disrespectful and divisive comments made by our outgoing school board president regarding the award-winning...
Baffled by school district decision
I am proud of our community and inspired by the amazing staging of “Oklahoma!” by Hainesites of all ages at the Chilkat Center for the Arts. Our...
Voters: Waterman, Berry, change in disclosure
Incumbent assembly member Joanne Waterman cruised by challenger Jim Studley and former City of Haines mayor Dave Berry topped Jono Greene for an open...
District finds photographer 'controversial'
The Haines Borough School District steered a presentation by nature photographer Amy Gulick to two classrooms instead of a school-wide assembly after...
Legislative candidates to debate
Candidates for Haines’ seat in the state House of Representatives and at least one candidate for state Senate have said they’ll attend a debate 7...
School was overbilled $225K for electric
Alaska Power and Telephone has overbilled the Haines Borough School District $225,057 for electricity. The error that caused the overbilling dates to...
Book an inside view of air taxi work
Resident Bob Adkins recounts flying stories comic and tragic in “Panhandle Pilot,” a self-published book now available in Haines. According to...
Financial disclosure, 7 candidates on ballot
Haines Borough voters on Tuesday will fill two seats on the assembly and three seats on the school board, and revisit a question about exempting...
Three candidates vie for 4 seats on school board
Three candidates are running unopposed for the Haines Borough School Board. A fourth seat open on the board that has attracted no candidates will be...
Candidate shortage not uncommon in Southeast
Some Haines School Board members have pointed to the state’s financial disclosure requirements as reasons for apparent low interest in recent...
Unethical to spend taxes to sway vote
Although the Haines Borough Assembly, school board and planning commission have every right to voice their opinion on the upcoming Proposition 1...
Assembly hopefuls field questions
Three candidates for Haines Borough Assembly offered views on a range of local issues at a candidates’ forum last week sponsored by We the People...
Duly Noted
Michelle Paul, 48, of Wenatchee, Wash., died Sept. 12 on Comstock Road of undetermined causes. An autopsy had been ordered. Paul had a prior medical...
School board to hear Brown's grievance
Haines Borough School Board will hear a grievance from veteran teacher Patty Brown 7 p.m. Monday at the Haines School. Brown, who has worked 17 years...
District enrollment drops 8 percent
As of Tuesday’s first day of classes, 280 students enrolled in Haines Borough School District schools, an 8 percent drop that would qualify the dist...
Area property sales lagging
Area property sales – which slowly rebounded following the 2008 banking crisis – appear to be slumping. Through Aug. 10, the Haines Borough saw...
Assembly: No full income reporting
The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday relaxed its proposed financial disclosure reporting regulations, eliminating a requirement that would have made...
Pare school board to 5 members?
Should the Haines Borough School District reduce its school board membership from seven to five? The question was raised at Tuesday’s board meeting,...
