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While Thomas Kehrberg, 34, looked forward to parole from Anvil Mountain Correctional Center last week, he also waited to see if Wisconsin’s attorney general would extradite him to face charges on...
The Nome Joint Utility Board of Directors voted in October to sign a contract with John K. Handeland to continue as utility manager for another two years, but reserved his compensation for another...
It’s 1:30 a.m. and three citizens wearing safety vests descend the icy steps of the Nome Visitor’s Center on Front Street. The wind is howling and snowdrifts are up to knee level on the sidewalk in...
David Fergerson, 57, went to a court hearing Dec. 11 and ended up with a jail sentence of four years’ flat time.
Fergerson attended an omnibus hearing in his case involving two counts of possessing...
The Anvil Mountain Correctional Center celebrated the season with its annual potlatch on Thursday, December 14. The event brings together inmates, staff and members of the community for a great...
Development of roads and hunting permits for outsiders generated the most discussion among members of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group during their annual meeting held December 14 and...
When the owners of Seaside Center halfway facility sought a permit from the City some years ago to operate on Front Street, the Nome Common Council responded to public sentiment by granting the...
After motoring around the neighborhoods surveying ramshackle structures, Nome’s planners have drawn up a slate of three properties they have reported to Tom Moran, city manager, for the City’s...
The 21st Christmas Extravaganza rang in the season with the traditional lighting of the city’s Christmas tree at Old St. Joe’s, on December 6. Emcee Mayor Richard Beneville brought out reindeer bells...
Before the arrival of the white people in the upper Kobuk River region, the Inupiaq prophet Maniilaq foretold the growth of a large city on the Ambler River where the village of Ambler now stands. He...
