In case you haven’t heard, the Chilkat Valley News is turning 60 next year and it’s coming up fast. Our official birthday is Jan. 3, 1966, when the first edition was published.

On the front page of that first paper, were stories about a new sawmill venture in the Port Chilkoot-area, the ferry schedule , a local group planning to build a “center for the performing arts,” a brief note about a Haines Paratrooper headed…

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...