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Pandemic prompts scaled back Christmas tradition in Alaska

by Mark Thiessen
| December 14, 2020 9:30 PM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a tiny speck of a frozen runway on the north bank of the Yukon River, nearly a hundred miles northwest of Fairbanks, Christmas was delivered in a most unusual way.

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