The assembly approved a budget on Tuesday that had been mostly balanced before unexpected losses of outside funding opened a significant deficit. Assembly members attempted to close the gap, but in the end only passed one cost-cutting amendment.

Since last year’s budgeting, the borough has lost significant outside funding, first with the planned expiration of Biden-era federal stimulus money, then with the loss of over a quarter million dollars in federal Secure Rural Schools funding…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.