Controversy Over Plan to Sell State Fair Land

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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