Alpenglow Wood Fired Pizza on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Owner Nolan Woodard has asked the borough to request more licenses from the state for local businesses to sell beer and wine onsite. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Alpenglow Wood Fired Pizza on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Owner Nolan Woodard has asked the borough to request more licenses from the state for local businesses to sell beer and wine onsite. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Nolan Woodard has owned Alpenglow Wood Fired Pizza in downtown Haines for just over a year now and is one of the few local restaurants that were open all winter. 

But, it wasn’t easy. He, and…

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...