WRANGELL – Alaska's two senators jointly welcomed a new addition to their Southeast team.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan issued statements December 22 congratulating Chere Klein to serve at the South Southeast delegation representative office in her home town of Ketchikan.

"The district office is kind of the eyes and ears of the senators when they're back in D.C.," Klein explained of the post. "Our main business is doing casework, and that's helping constituents around the district with any kind of federal agency that they're having any issues with, or if they don't think things ar...