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Thema Ponton is an award-winning weekend news anchor who joined News 12 in 2019. She has covered President-elect Joe Biden’s victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware, and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine study results announcement in Pearl River, New York.

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