The Chilkat Valley News and KHNS hosted a live candidate forum at the Chilkat Center on Friday. Moderators Rashah McChesney and Avery Ellfeldt questioned four candidates for two open positions on the assembly and two candidates vying for the mayor’s seat. Assembly candidates are Lee Robinson, Anne Marie Palmieri, Beau Bradley and Diana Lapham. Candidates […]
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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.
