After summer in Sitka, rising Scrabble star takes on back-to-back national championships

After summer in Sitka, rising Scrabble star takes on back-to-back national championships

Wooden blocks, boats and baseball bats are cornerstones of childhood play. For Chloe Fatsis, wooden tiles were the currency of her youth.  “It’s basically been in me since birth,” said Fatsis, a former Outer Coast student and summer staff member who is leaving Sitka this weekend to compete in back-to-back national Scrabble championships. Just before she was born, her father, journalist and nonfiction writer Stefan Fatsis, wrote a book about the …