JC Davis approaches the cannon at Ft. Seward while trying to evade the "cops," during a game of cops and robbers on Friday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
JC Davis approaches the cannon at Ft. Seward while trying to evade the “cops,” during a game of cops and robbers on Friday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Just after 8 p.m. on Halloween night 20 high school students gathered in the parking lot of the pool. They waited for a few minutes to see if any stragglers were going to show up – one was dropped off by a…

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...