SHELBURNE — Sally Manikian became the first woman to win the Can-Am 100-mile sled dog race on Feb. 29 in Fort Kent Maine.
Manikian of Shelburne and Upton, Maine, 38, has raced in all the Can-Am divisions in the past eight years.
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