(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Paul Nelson passes out cuban cigars to celebrate his sale of Bigfoot Auto Service to Haines Industrial owner Haynes Tormey (right) on July 31, in Haines, Alaska.

Paul Nelson squinted into his cell phone, lining up a photo Thursday of about 30 people crowded in front of the back bay door of Bigfoot Auto. A Cuban cigar hung from his lips as he prepared the shot. 

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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...