The Chilkat Valley News and The Bookstore are launching a new community book club this February.  

The group will meet on the last Sunday of each month and follow a reading list that spans memoir, history, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.  The goal is steady, communal reading and conversation that welcomes people who read carefully, or intermittently. 

The kickoff meeting is set for Sunday, Feb. 22, with a discussion focused on Rough Crossing by 1994 Haines…

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...