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    Girdwood is a resort town within the southern extent of the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located near the end of the Turnagain...
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    permanently raised by 30 feet (9 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet (2.4 m)...
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    northeast of the central business district of Girdwood, in Anchorage Borough, Alaska, United States. Girdwood Airport also served as the Finish Line for...
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    Anchorage (Tanaina: Dgheyay Kaq'; Dgheyaytnu), officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a...
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  • The Anchorage Fire Department (AFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Anchorage, Alaska. Areas that are served by...
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  • Disappearance of Erin Marie Gilbert (category History of Anchorage, Alaska)
    attending the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. Gilbert, who had previously resided in California, had moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she lived...
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    Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (IATA: ANC, ICAO: PANC, FAA LID: ANC) is a major airport in the U.S. state of Alaska, located 5 miles (8 km)...
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  • Girdwood may refer to: Girdwood, Anchorage, Alaska, a community within the southern extent of the Municipality of Anchorage in the state of Alaska Girdwood...
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  • in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The "Anchorage Bowl" is the area normally thought of simply as Anchorage. Other areas within the...
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    south. Anchorage was mostly a company town for the Alaska Railroad for its first several decades of existence. The strategic location of Alaska, which...
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    service between Whittier and Seattle. An Alaska Railroad locomotive over a bridge in Girdwood approaching Anchorage (2007) The White Pass and Yukon Route...
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    Alyeska Resort (category Alaska Anchorage Seawolves)
    Resort is a ski resort in the Girdwood area of Anchorage, Alaska, approximately 30 miles (48 km) from downtown Anchorage. Mount Alyeska is part of the...
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    Girdwood Depot is a passenger railroad station in Girdwood, south of Anchorage, Alaska. The station offers service for the Alaska Railroad's Coastal Classic...
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    mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Incumbent Republican mayor Dave Bronson ran for re-election to a second term in office. Bronson and former Anchorage Assembly...
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    government bought the Alaska Northern Railroad and moved its headquarters to Ship Creek, in what would later become Anchorage. The government began to...
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    head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one...
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  • abandoned and merged with Girdwood, Anchorage, Alaska Alyeska Resort, an alpine ski area which developed in the early 1960s in Girdwood Alyeska Pipeline Service...
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  • The Anchorage School District (ASD) manages all public schools within the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the 107th largest...
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  • neighboring Turnagain Arm communities of Girdwood and Indian. South Anchorage High School is part of the Anchorage School District, and opened in the fall...
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    The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is the police department of the Municipality of Anchorage in Alaska. Functioning as a service area of the Municipality...
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    Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 125 miles (201 km) from Seward to Anchorage. It was completed in 1951 and runs through...
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    emergencies. This includes the largest metropolitan police agency in Alaska, the Anchorage Police Department, with almost 300 officers, and the Wasilla Police...
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    800 km2) alone. South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region and contains most of the state's population. Anchorage and many growing towns, such...
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    of the Seward Highway, about 11 mi southeast of Girdwood. The center is in the Municipality of Anchorage on the approximant border of the Kenai Peninsula...
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  • Great Alaska Council. Bear Paw District (serves the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Valdez) Denali District (serves Southern Anchorage and Girdwood) Eklutna...
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    Anchorage, the areas surrounding the college/University of Alaska Fairbanks campus and Ester and the "Alaska Bush" – rural, sparsely populated Alaska...
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  • business." Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved on May 23, 2007. "Adn.com | Alaska political corruption : Federal agents raid Sen. Ted Stevens' Girdwood home"....
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    Rep. John Harris (R-Valdez) State Representative Mike Hawker (R-Anchorage, Girdwood, Hope) State Senator Charlie Huggins (R-Mat-Su, Chugiak, Peters Creek)...
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    stretches 180 miles (290 km) from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain...
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  • railroad plays a vital part in moving Alaska's natural resources, such as coal and gravel, to ports in Anchorage, Whittier, and Seward. In 2015, the railroad...
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