Jerry Lapp, a Haines resident with a long history of public service and time in local office, is running for one of two open seats on the planning commission. 

Jerry Lapp is running for one of two open seats on Haines’ Planning Commission. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Lapp, who was born and raised in the lower 48, moved to Alaska in 1974 from Montana, and initially settled in Fairbanks and worked on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.…

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...