THE MAYOR IS IN I have moved into the mayor’s office at the borough administration building at Third Avenue and Willard Street. For now I’m here much of the day, but officially I reserve the hours of 3-5 p.m. Monday through Friday to meet with constituents. I’m also available to constituents from 5-6 p.m. by appointment (because the borough office…
Tlingit legend tells of a landslide at Chilkoot Lake so large that the resulting shock wave washed parts of the historic village there into Lutak Inlet. In the late 1880s, a chunk of mountainside adjacent to the Chilkoot River “eye” collapsed, destroying an estimated 30 village structures and claiming several lives. A few years after George Shotridge started building of…
First, let me say that my commenting on the Haines Borough Police Department’s decision to no longer provide the police report or “blotter” may be perceived as a double conflict of interest. I own the Chilkat Valley News, which publishes the blotter as a regular feature. I also serve on the Haines Borough Assembly, and among my duties is voting…
I voted for Phase 1 of the Haines harbor extension project at Tuesday’s assembly meeting because I could see no resolution coming as a result of delaying this action any longer. Delaying this project past the Dec. 25 deadline for awarding a bid would incur substantial, additional costs. For more than a year, critics of the design have made strong…
An interesting question posed to me this week is what effect the Trump administration will have on the Haines Borough. Trump represents a significant departure from established party politics in the United States, and has never before served in office. His political views are all over the map, and seem to change from day to day. That makes predictions difficult.…