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CITY PLANNER— Erin Reinders presented an update on the new downtown zoning ordinance in a work session before the Nome Common Council meeting.  A public meeting that was supposed to take place last month was canceled due to lack of quorum of the Planning Commission. The meeting is rescheduled to take place at a later date.
In its first meeting this year, the Nome Common Council breezed through an varied agenda, full of issues to be tackled in the year ahead. While the City is still looking for a permanent City Manager...
POLAR BROTHERS–Pat and Bill Krier stand outside the Polar Building on a smoke break, January 10. The Brothers recently sold Polar Enterprises after 25 years of their family’s ownership but will be sticking around for a few months to execute a smooth transition.
It’s a new year, and, for Polar Enterprises, a new era. Though everything may have appeared business as usual to regulars, Sunday, January 5 marked the transfer of ownership to Mymy and Larry St....
HAPPY NEW YEAR— Nomeites watched the New Year’s Eve fireworks display in small groups spread across icy roads.
While the ball was dropping in Times Square, Nome welcomed in the New Year—or at least, waved goodbye to the old one—with fireworks. Cars filled up parking lots and roads between the small boat...
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea from federal oil and gas leasing. Using a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,...
SNOW DUMP— City crews don’t have to move much snow these days, as evidenced by the empty, icy snow dump facility off Greg Kruschek Ave.
It’s the turn of the New Year and there’s barely any snow on the ground. Nome did not get a white Christmas this year. The tundra is brown instead of slumbering under a blanket of white snow. The...
ICE— Warm temperatures and rain on snow caused super slick roads, keeping students and workers home as schools and businesses were closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Nome’s business as usual came to a standstill last week as days of unusual warmth and rain had people reaching for their ice cleats as sidewalks and roads turned into slick ice. Keeping a car from...
UNALAKLEET HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING— Community members in Unalakleet gathered to sing outside the Covenant Church after the community tree was lit.
Christmas time is here. Throughout the region, communities get together to celebrate the spirit of the season and to engage in weeklong community games and traditional races. The Nome Nugget called...
The tundra outside of Nome is brown, not snow-covered as it should be, on December 11, 2024. The Arctic Report Card found that Arctic tundra is turning from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter.
The annual Arctic Report Card released this week revealed unsettling findings of the current state of the Arctic as scientists reported that the Arctic transitions from a carbon sink to a carbon...
The Nome Common Council signed off on a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the City of Nome Employees Association, which will raise wages by 8.2 percent in 2025, 3 percent in 2026 and 4...
GOODBYE— Interim City Manager Brooks Chandler leaves Nome on December 16, after his three-month tenure.
Three months has come and gone, and Interim City Manager Brooks Chandler is packing his bags to leave Nome, he hopes better than he found it. Chandler stepped in the role temporarily after former...

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