Alaska Airlines canceled flights to Nome and Kotzebue last week due to staffing issues at the FAA’S Flight Service Station, or FSS, and weather reporting system equipment not reporting visibility conditions.
Alaska Airlines canceled flights to Nome and Kotzebue last week due to staffing issues at the FAA’S Flight Service Station, or FSS, and weather reporting system equipment not reporting visibility conditions.
Tim Thompson with Alaska Airlines...
Torn between the prospect of jobs and the fear of losing subsistence grounds that have nourished the people of Mary’s Igloo, Teller and Brevig Mission for generations, Teller residents voiced their reservations to representatives of a company that...
Last Saturday, community members roamed town with bright yellow trash bags in the annual effort to rid the city of trash and debris as the winter’s snow cover has melted, exposing old “treasures.”
The City of Nome’s spring cleanup week culminated...
Nomeites are used to odd sights. But huge cardboard signs saying, “Bird Flu Testing” and “Free Shells” propped up against a rental car at East End Park did warrant a double take. Turns out, researchers were in Nome last week, conducting avian flu...
Three miles east of Nome you find a special place called Fort Davis (aka “Fort”). It was there that my family’s Native allotment was located which we grew to love as children.
Like many Nome families, Fort was a location where seasonal and...
On a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon, Graphite One representatives invited the Nome public to an Open House at Old St. Joe’s to learn more about the proposed graphite mine in the northern Kigulaik Mountains. About 30 visitors found their way into...
Thirty-two students graduated from Nome-Beltz High School on Wednesday, May 27, opening a new chapter in their lives. Under sunny skies, the graduates were paraded around town in a motorcade of decorated trucks and cars, winding through all...
The Nome school board met Tuesday, May 19 for a special meeting to appoint a board member to Nancy Mendenhall’s seat. Mendenhall is leaving the board after 11 years due to personal family matters. Two candidates – Vincent Villella and David O’Neill...
Port of Nome officials invited to an open house last Thursday at Old St. Joe’s, with the goal to present several projects around the small boat harbor and Nome’s port to the public.
Looming large was of course the expansion of the Port of Nome as...
For a short while, the sky was crying as Nome veterans gathered at 11 a.m. on Front Street for the annual Memorial Day parade to the Nome Belmont Cemetery. By the time the parade reached Seppala Drive, the sprinkling rain let up and parade...
Tribal representatives and stakeholders from the region, along with outside commercial entities met with the U.S. Coast Guard representatives in Nome last week to discuss the possibility of standing up a Waterways Safety Committee, or WSC, in the...
The Nome-Beltz Track team had a late start to the season this year, with only about a month of regular practices, due to the lack of a coach. Lahka Peacock filled the void and stepped up to coach the team despite having no experience coaching track...
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