(Courtesy/Derek Poinsette) Smoke blankets Jones Point Road from a burn on a nearby borough-owned parcel designated for Jones Point Cemetery use.

Volunteers on behalf of the borough this month cleared new land at Jones Point Cemetery, across Sawmill Road from the main burial grounds. 

The stretch of land was the subject of a controversy earlier this year when neighboring non-profit Takshanuk Watershed Council applied for a borough easement for use of a driveway running through…

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