Evangeline Ruth Lewis and Heather David stood in the Monday heat, swatting away the occasional mosquito and looking at George Lewis’ grave. In a wood-fenced plot in the Jones Point Cemetery, George Lewis’ was one of dozens of graves decorated with new American flags, freshly decorated by volunteers and family members before the annual Memorial […]
Author Archives: Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News
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 Deputy Editor for the Gulf States Newsroom and a reporter for Alaska’s Energy Desk in Juneau. Currently, she’s editing a project with KYUK and ProPublica and in 2024, she bought the weekly Chilkat Valley News in Southeast Alaska where she is focused on building a sustainable local newsroom.
