I love to travel. I’ve been lucky enough in my brief 27 years on this planet to see quite a bit of it, and some interesting, off-the-beaten-path corners of it, too. The question “what brought you to Alaska?” is one I’ve asked – and been asked – a few times since moving to Nome. And [...]
Archive | February, 2012
Get Along Little Irondoggies, Get Along
Hello Bekah here! This week at work we have been covering a snow machine race: the Irondog 2012. The route goes from Anchorage to here in Nome, where it took about a day and a half pause, and continues on to Fairbanks. Snow machine races are so different from dog team races; for one, they [...]
Get Your Tickets to the Northern Lights Show
The recipe for a good northern lights show is pretty simple. All you need to do is find a clear night, get away from the city lights, live near the magnetic north pole, and time it such that a giant explosion on the sun sprays the atmosphere with highly energized particles. You can achieve all [...]
A Moose in Labor
Spending time outside is a must if you live in Alaska. Yes, there is plenty of time spent gaining invaluable work experience while inside the walls of the radio station. But when you have free time, Alaska is a great place for people who like to hang with Mother Nature. My most memorable moment with [...]
Nome beyond KNOM
Though I’d had minimal experience working in radio before I applied to KNOM (the few shows I helped a friend with in college, mostly for laughs, barely count), I could mostly guess what a position on the news team was going to be like. (Exactly like Newsies, right?) The big question for me was, what [...]
Beautiful Winter Days, Exciting Races, and New Music
Hello everyone, Rebekah here! The weather this week has been amazing. Last week we were still trudging through with 30 below zero temperatures daily, then it warmed up enough to snow this weekend, and snow it did (about 10 inches.) Now the temperature has been hovering around 30 ABOVE! That’s a sixty-degree difference; back home [...]
A Chilly Start to 2012
We’ve been having a cold year so far. The average temperature during the month of January was -16.6 degrees: the coldest since record keeping began over 100 years ago. It hit -40 once, and -30 on 17 separate days. I didn’t get a chance to think about the cold until just recently, I was busy [...]
Top of the morning to ya, from the top of the world!
Hi, my name is Bekah, and no, I am not Irish! I am the Music Director here at KNOM! My job includes taking care of our music library (which takes up most of the second floor!), listening to and choosing new music to add to our library, producing a couple spots (including a movie soundtrack [...]
Ben Matheson – Volunteer News Reporter
My name is Ben Matheson, I’m currently working as a volunteer news reporter at KNOM. I grew up in Minnesota and studied communication and international studies at Luther College. I spent a year in Denmark as an exchange student and got my first taste of the arctic in Norway. Before coming to Alaska, I worked [...]
Throwin’ Out the Welcome Mat(ty)
Welcome to the KNOM blog. My name is Matty, and I am one of the four current volunteers working at KNOM Radio in Nome. My birth name is actually Matthew, but I rarely go by that name, which is fortunate because one of the other current volunteers is also named Matthew. I’ve been told here [...]
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