(left) McConnell Robinson, Jonah Wray, Sita Price, Lylah Wray, Grady Robinson, and Hazel Wray are headed to state with the Haines Dolphins swim team, shown here on Monday, April 21, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/chilkat Valley News)

This week, Haines Dolphins swimmers are headed to Anchorage to compete in state swimming championships. 

The number of races each swimmer participates in is directly tied to their performance, so it’s not yet clear how many races…

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...