The Emmonak Women’s Shelter has been operating for 34 years and uses Yupik language and culture as the backbone of its program to protect women and children. But the shelter’s call volume and caseload has jumped this summer, just as their bank account has nearly run dry. Lynn Hootch was the shelter’s director from 1993 to 2005. She [...]
Archive | Profiles RSS feed for this section
Profile: Diomede Helicopter Pilots
Evergreen Helicopters is resuming mail service to Diomede after the ice runway went out last week. The company has a new pilot, Mike Maness, taking over the Diomede route and moving his family to Nome full time. The outgoing pilot, Mike Kutyba, discusses the unique nature of the job and the relationships he’s formed.
Profile: Nome-Beltz’s New Principal
Scott Handley will be the new Nome Beltz Principal this fall after current principal Steve Gast moves to a district office position. Handley has spent the past three years as a principal and teacher in the community of Nanwalek on the Kenai Peninsula. Handley grew up in South Dakota and spent most of his prior [...]
Profile: Grace at the Garbage Dump
Former KNOM news reporter Jesse Zink has published a book about his time as a missionary in South Africa. Grace at the Garbage Dump explores his work and experience in a poor community. Zink helped patients struggling with HIV and AIDS, worked in microcredit programs, and tutored English students. He says cultural understanding was an [...]
Profile: Nome Safety Fair
Nome Emergency Service providers and Norton Sound Injury Prevention will host a Safety Fair in Nome this Saturday at the Nome Elementary School parking lot. Bike safety and registration will be areas of focus. Presenters will also address gun and boating safety. Ambulance crews will be on hand with emergency planning information. The Safety Fair [...]
Profile: Teaching Tlingit Art in Nome
Ed Littlefield is the Artist in Residence at Nome’s Anvil City Science Academy. He’s been working with students for the past two weeks using a traditional Tlingit melody to teach music and performance art. The end product of the two-week session will be a performance that weaves together a Tlingit choir, body percussion, short performance [...]
Profile: The BOSS Project
The BOSS Project is the Bering-Okhotsk Seal Survey, and for the past month, they’ve been flying planes with specialized cameras over the Bering Sea. An international collaboration between NOAA Fisheries and their Russian counterparts, BOSS is using digital cameras alongside heat-sensing thermal cameras to take a population survey of ribboned, spotted, ringed, and bearded seals. John Jansen, a [...]
Profile: The Muskox Cultural Exchange
This Saturday in Nome, a special meeting will take place, bringing together cultural experts from across Western Alaska: knitters, hunters, spinners, carvers, guides, and others. They’ll be coming from Nunivak Island, Wales, Shishmaref, Unalakleet, and elsewhere to talk and share information about all things muskoxen: hunting them, what to do with the meat, the hide, [...]
Recent Posts
In the News
alaska
Alaska House
Alaska Native
Alaska State Troopers
Anchorage
Arctic
Bering Sea
Bethel
Coast Guard
community
education
Emmonak
Fairbanks
fishermen
fishing
gold
governor
Governor Parnell
Governor Sean Parnell
king salmon
Kotzebue
Kuskokwim
mining
NOAA
Nome
Nome Alaska
Nome Common Council
Nome Port Commission
Nome Public Schools
North Slope
Norton Sound
Norton Sound Health Corporation
NSEDC
oil
salmon
school
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator Mark Begich
Shell
Shell Oil
St. Lawrence Island
subsistence
UAF
Unalakleet
village
