Kristen Brumfield throws a fit during a scene in the sketch comedy show Blaines City which pokes fun at Haines on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

The sketch-comedy show Blaines City is set in a fictional town meant to parody life in Haines. And it is on point. 

The curtain opens on a family arriving in Haines after a long drive. They stop at a restaurant to eat but…

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...