Besides, Jo was even more of a city person than him. An energetic woman with curly shoulder-length black hair, she grew up in Seoul, South Korea, where she avoided the countryside. Moving to Cantwell was like dropping off the edge of the known universe. The nearest doctor is more than 100 miles away, north to Fairbanks or south to Wasilla. Residents drive to Anchorage for groceries.
Newspapers come only on Sundays.
Sabala admits he had some fears when he put in for the Cantwell post, especially when he learned no one else had applied. But residents started stopping by his office almost as soon as he moved in. Sabala assumed they had crimes to report, as people who stop by city police stations do. He sat them down and grabbed his notebook. They just stopped in for coffee and to talk.