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Storybooks, radio connect kids isolated in far-flung Alaska

by Associated Press
| April 29, 2020 12:03 AM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — All it takes is a few words from a storybook to connect kids over the crackle of an AM radio station. It's not 1950s entertainment, but a nostalgic way children in even the most remote Alaska communities — many with unreliable internet — can overcome further isolation brought on by the coronavirus.

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