Bethel council takes stand against 2 more liquor stores

BETHEL – Less than a year after the start of Bethel's first legal alcohol sales in decades, people in the Southwest Alaska hub and surrounding villages say the result has been dire.

More sexual assaults. More dysfunction in homes. Young people showing up drunk to school sporting events. People drinking and dying.

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