MVP — The Nanooks’ Jade Green, No. 13, blocks a shot in a game against the Kotzebue Huskies. He was named MVP of the Subway Showdown Tournament held in Nome last weekend.
Nanooks win Subway Showdown, Lady Nanooks place second
By Megan Gannon From Thursday to Saturday last week, the den of the Nanooks was packed with spectators cheering on the boys and girls high school basketball teams in the annual Subway Showdown.
JOB CENTER — Vickie Erickson and her successor Dan Fishel at Nome’s Job Center.
A new era for the Nome Job Center begins as Vickie Erickson retires
 By Megan Gannon Vickie Erickson’s career at the Nome Job Center has been bookended by periods of great change.
LIVING AMONGST MUSK OXEN— A huge herd of musk oxen grazes near the City Field airstrip, with Icy View in the background and the busy Nome-Teller highway to the left.
MVP — The Nanooks’ Jade Green, No. 13, blocks a shot in a game against the Kotzebue Huskies. He was named MVP of the Subway Showdown Tournament held in Nome last weekend.
JOB CENTER — Vickie Erickson and her successor Dan Fishel at Nome’s Job Center.
TESTIFYING— Mushers Garrick Fuller, Kamey Kapp Worland, Melissa Owens, Jeff Darling and Nils Hahn addressed the Northern Norton Sound Fish and Game Advisory Committee at their meeting on Monday, calling for solutions to thin the ever-growing musk oxen herds in and around Nome.
RECYCLING AREA— Sorting and packaging of recyclables is taking place outdoors at this lot across from Kawerak, at Seppala Drive, limiting the amount of materials that can prepared for shipping out of the region. An enclosed recycling center could step up the region’s recycling effort and yield a better outcome.

Council hears of need for a Recycling Center

By Diana Haecker Kawerak Environmental Program Director Anahma Shannon made the case for a much-needed recycling center facility in Nome, presenting information from a feasibility study and several solutions to the Nome Common Council last week....

School board hears of Nome’s need for arts education

By Megan Gannon Last week educators and the Nome Public Schools Board of Education discussed ways to bring more arts into the classrooms. During the regular board meeting, Nome Elementary School Principal Elizabeth Korenek-Johnson said that a lot...
GOLD RUSH SWIM MEET— Brandon Ford plows through the Nome Pool during last weekend’s Gold Rush Swim Meet hosted by the Nome Northstar Swim Team.

NNST swimmers surge into qualifying times

By Melissa Ford, NNST Head Coach The Nome Northstar Swim Team hosted the 2023 Gold Rush Swim Meet last weekend. The Stingray Swim Team came from North Pole to participate and left with qualifying times also. The Nome pool was fast and furious this...

Polar bear kills woman and her child in Wales

By Diana Haecker A woman and a boy were killed by a polar bear in Wales, on Tuesday, January 17. Alaska State Troopers identified the mauling victims as 24-year-old Saint Michael resident Summer Myomick and her 1-year-old son Clyde Ongtowasruk....
RECYCLING— Council members and Kawerak’s Environmental Program Director Anahma Shannon, center, listen to ideas regarding recycling efforts from members in the audience, at last Monday’s work session at City Hall.

City easing tax payers into acceptance of new collection system

By Diana Haecker A lot has happened since last summer and an ordinance passed last July has slipped people’s mind, but is now being implemented, as the city’s administration is rolling out a new sales and bed tax collection system, moving the...

City shifts tax collection system online

By Megan Gannon The City of Nome’s new online system for collecting sales and bed tax went live on Tuesday. Starting January 10, businesses will no longer be able to file their taxes via paper documents and apply for or renew a city business...
LIVING AMONGST MUSK OXEN— A huge herd of musk oxen grazes near the City Field airstrip, with Icy View in the background and the busy Nome-Teller highway to the left.

Community seeks solutions to musk ox management problems

By Diana Haecker Public pressure mounts to effect change of musk ox management in Nome as the community still reels from Curtis Worland’s death due to a musk ox goring on December 13. The management objective of ADF&G is to grow the musk ox...
MVP — The Nanooks’ Jade Green, No. 13, blocks a shot in a game against the Kotzebue Huskies. He was named MVP of the Subway Showdown Tournament held in Nome last weekend.

Nanooks win Subway Showdown, Lady Nanooks place second

By Megan Gannon From Thursday to Saturday last week, the den of the Nanooks was packed with spectators cheering on the boys and girls high school basketball teams in the annual Subway Showdown. Several of the 12 games played during the round-robin...
JOB CENTER — Vickie Erickson and her successor Dan Fishel at Nome’s Job Center.

A new era for the Nome Job Center begins as Vickie Erickson retires

 By Megan Gannon Vickie Erickson’s career at the Nome Job Center has been bookended by periods of great change. When she started 24 years ago, the office still had a physical job board that people seeking employment would come to inspect. Soon...

Obituaries

Arthur Gene Beltz
Arthur Gene Beltz
Arthur G. Beltz was born on December 31, 1946 in Anchorage, Alaska at the old Providence Hospital on 9th and L Street to Harry L. Beltz and Lucy (Bourdon) Beltz Anderson. Arthur was the brother of...

Education

School board hears of Nome’s need for arts education

By Megan Gannon
Last week educators and the Nome Public Schools Board of Education discussed ways to bring more arts into the classrooms.

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