Nearly a decade after her book “Rough Crossing” was published, author and Haines High School graduate Rosemary McGuire called into her first Haines community book club meeting to talk about it. 

The Chilkat Valley News, which co-hosted the book club meeting with The Bookstore, invited the author to join the club on Sunday, which kicked off a year of reading with McGuire’s book. Just under 10 people, including author Heather Lende, quizzed McGuire on her…

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...