Sam White is the new K-12 assistant principal in the Haines Borough School District, shown here on Oct. 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Sam White is the new K-12 assistant principal in the Haines Borough School District, shown here on Oct. 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Haines Superintendent Roy Getchell announced in early February that a hiring committee has chosen to promote assistant principal Sam White at the end of the school year. 

White, who has a teaching background in psychology and history, taught in Indiana and Washington State before deciding that he wanted…

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...