After a series of interviews and community meetings with finalists, the Haines Board of Education has announced that Lilly Boron has accepted an offer to be the school district’s next superintendent. 

Boron was picked after a search process that yielded nine applications for the board; they selected two finalists and brought them into town for a community meeting on Monday and a formal interview with board members on Tuesday. 

Boron’s main competition was Yupiit School…

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...