(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Lewis, a preschool-aged student, works with clay during an art class on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, at the Klukwan school in Klukwan, Alaska.

The Klukwan School’s parent district, the Chatham School District, is sharing its newest superintendent with a state-run boarding school as of July 1. 

David Langford will explore options to share services and costs between the state-run high school on Japonski Island near Sitka, and the rural school district…

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...