They may not be the most athletic animals in the barn, but four pigs from Klawock are going to race in a long track around McPherson Barn for the first time in years at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. 

Barn manager Greg Podsiki tracked down the four short-haired Kunekune  pigs and had them flown up to town last month. 

“I called all over the state and Canada. But if I was going to get them…

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...