A friend of mine fell on the ice and broke her wrist in front of the old Video 144 building on Main Street a few weeks ago. She got to wondering: Why wasn’t the Borough enforcing a sidewalk clearing ordinance? She asked me. I asked Police Chief Gary Lowe. And that was how I learned that neither the Haines Borough nor the State of Alaska require property owners to free sidewalks of ice and snow! Like my friend, I had assumed otherwise.
It turns out that clearing sidewalks, sprinkling salt, is another one of the many good deeds Haines residents do for one another – without being asked. This is a great place to live.
Happy holidays one and all.
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