Anchorage competes for All-America City honor.

• Position: General - Brief Article

The National Civic League announced recently the 30 finalist communities or is year's All-America City Award, the nation's longest-running and most prestigious civic recognition program, and Anchorage is among them.

The All-America City Award encourages and recognizes civic excellence, honoring the communities (neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties and regions) in which citizens, government, businesses and nonprofit organizations demonstrate successful resolution of critical community issues. Since 1949, more than 4,000 communities have competed and nearly 500 have been designated "All-America Cities."

The finalist communities that will be competing for the honor of being designated an All-America City are:

Anchorage; Fairhope, Ala.; Clayton, Mo.; Region of Tuscaloosa-Northport, Ala.; Neosho, Mo.; Vestavia Hills, Ala.; Union, NJ. ; Roswell, N.M.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; Buffalo-Niagara Region, N.Y; Boulder, Cob.; Huntington, N.Y.; Fountain, Cob.; Mohawk Valley Region, N.Y.; New...