After decades of political battles over booze in a region where attention is often focused on alcohol-fueled destruction, the Tuesday opening of Bethel’s first liquor store in more than 40 years was an understated, happy affair. Bethel, home to about 6,300, is also the hub for 50 villages, many of them dry with alcohol strictly banned. Bethel, and now its liquor store, is a quick boat or snowmachine trip away from some villages.
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