(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Students head into school on the first day of classes on August 20, 2024, in Haines, Alaska.

The first day of school in the Haines School District was August 20, 2024. (Photos by Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Top: Lexi DeWitt talks to students in her 2nd grade classroom on the first day of school.

Second row: Students pour into the school after the doors are unlocked at 8 a.m., Noah Nash pledges allegiance to the U.S. Flag on the first day of school. Aurora Lockhart hugs Riverlynn Hess as the two catch…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...