Local food champion Erika Merklin reports that the Victory Garden recently got a $9,600 grant from the state to support additional distribution of fresh and frozen local food throughout the region through the Southeast Alaska Food Bank.  Located on Mosquito Lake Road off the 27 Mile Haines Highway, the Victory Garden is a community garden that was established in 2020. 

Glenda Gilbert celebrated her birthday on Tuesday by getting out in the sun. Gilbert, who…

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...