(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Retiring teacher Sam McPhetres poses in a server room in Haines High School.

In his classroom, with the steady thrum of a 3D printer in the background, district technology director and computer science teacher Sam McPhetres pulls up the internet archive Wayback Machine and scrolls back to 2002 when it first logged the domain hbsd.net. 

As near as he can tell, that’s the year he first established the domain. “It…

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...