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In September, forty-eight hours before hunting season started, a moose escaped from a Haines wildlife center. Two days before Christmas, he returned back to the center unharmed.
On December 22, FEMA issued a formal letter to the Haines Borough, explaining in detail their decision to terminate funding for repairs to Porcupine Road. The agency’s determination leaves Haines Borough responsible for more than one million dollars in work already incurred on the project. And, work on the rockslide at 15 miles Haines highway is wrapping up. Open traffic is expected to resume in the coming days.
A Skagway high school Senior who is blind will now have better access to library materials after a fourth grader, who is also visually impaired, lobbied the Skagway School Board to stock its library with braille books. Reporting by Jenn Shelton.
Haines elected officials recently learned that the contractor in charge of rebuilding the Lutak dock has purchased $10M worth of steel for the project. This commitment to a design that newly elected leaders had expressed interest in changing surprised and angered borough officials. The announcement has caused a crisis of confidence in the borough’s administration, and last Friday the assembly held a special meeting to discuss the issue.
A report on Skagway’s last Borough Assembly Meeting. And, the Department of Transportation has sent a notice that the Haines highway will be closed Wednesday at 9PM and through the night.
A rockslide shut down the Highway 15 miles from Haines on Saturday evening. One car was destroyed, but no one was injured. And, the Arctic has been warming much faster in recent decades, and this year, parts of northern Alaska experienced its warmest July on record. As KNOM’s Ava White reports, 2023 was the sixth warmest year the Arctic has seen in over a century’s worth of data.
Today we have another Skagway wrap-up from Reporter Melinda Munson, stories include Skagway Robotics Team hosting it’s first competition, and Skagway’s second Marijuana dispensary clears another hurdle.
The newly elected leaders of the Haines borough have shown an interest in a different design for the Lutak dock rebuilding project. Recent communications from the contractor indicate the company is committed to the current design, and may charge the borough in the event of a design change. Borough leaders are attempting to talk with the federal agency funding the project. And, For some of the Haines sports teams, the season is just getting started. For another, it’s ending on a high note.
