Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News Caleb Willard-Wilson, 4, watches tv on Tuesday, in Haines. Willard-Wilson attends the Klukwan community school which just launched a weekend food program to help families like his cope with the loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, benefits that the state informed recipients would not be paid in November due to the ongoing federal shutdown.

Families whose children attend Klukwan School are going home this week with extra food to help…

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...