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"officially it is the end of the year, so December 31st. Um, they have a notice to other leaseholders in the area that they are to stop operations by the end of September. And so I'm hoping to get that stuff out of there before the snow flies"

“officially it is the end of the year, so December 31st. Um, they have a notice to other leaseholders in the area that they are to stop operations by the end of September. And so I'm hoping to get that stuff out of there before the snow flies”
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Speaker A
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Alaska News
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Petersburg
Captured at
June 12, 2026

From the transcript

So, Aaron, um, the training center, when was it we have to be out of there? Um, officially it is the end of the year, so December 31st. Um, they have a notice to other leaseholders in the area that they are to stop operations by the end of September. And so I'm hoping to get that stuff out of there before the snow flies, but, uh, it's— containers are pretty easy to move as long as we can go in and we can disconnect. They're all connected on the inside because of how they're set up to make like the inside of a house.

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