(Photos by Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

A fire on Oct. 5 burned four businesses and apartments in a building owned by Mike Ward. As community members banded together to help the people who suddenly lost their homes, Ward has been working to shift operations of the Quick Shop and its neighboring liquor store and outdoor gear shops to his other stores in town.

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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...