32 teams played 78 games in four days at the 17th annual Mt. Edgecumbe Invitational Basketball Tournament in Sitka. For the second year in a row, Haines Sports Shop won the men’s open division. This year the team, which also included players from Sitka, beat Anchorage’s Snow City 85-70. Andrew Friske, who helped coordinate the tournament, played on that winning team, adding six points to the win. Friske said the tournament raised a whopping $35,000…

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...