Plans by managers of the Alaska State Fair to sell verdant farm acreage to an industrial skills training school created a fracas in Palmer last month. The offer by Northern Industrial Training to build a twenty -four million dollar vocational school bordering the fairgrounds is expected to create economic opportunities for the area, but as APRN’s Ellen Lockyer reports, the deal is encountering more obstacles than a rodeo barrel race.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN – Anchorage
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