(Courtesy/Kara Briggs) Journalist and poet Kara Briggs will be giving a reading at The Bookstore this week.

A longtime journalist and storyteller Kara Briggs is headed to the Chilkat Valley this week and will stop by The Bookstore to read selections from her new book, “Rivers in My Veins.”

Briggs, who lives on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State, is a Sauk-Suiattle tribal citizen and descendant of the Yakama Nation, who uses documentary poetry to…

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...