Haines' Ar'iel Godinez Long looks for an opening during a game Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Haines’ Ar’iel Godinez Long looks for an opening during a game Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

The Haines Glacier Bears opened their home hoops season with two days of games against the Metlakatla Chiefs and Miss Chiefs and packed stands in the gym over the weekend. 

The girls pulled off the weekend’s biggest upset, first losing their game on Friday, 30-51, and then rallying Saturday to beat the same…

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...