For the second year in a row, Jessie Holmes and Paige Drobny are jockeying for the top spot. “That’s my closest neighbor, 26 miles away. It’s hard to root against her,” Holmes said shortly after pulling into the Yukon River checkpoint at Ruby just before 5 a.m. Friday.
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Emil Mackey paid for the bricks and submitted the comments, citing displeasure over Assembly funding priorities.
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Sec. Doug Burgum stopped briefly in Alaska Thursday on his way to a conference in Tokyo.
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