Nome News

Girl high school athletes standing in a line warming up inside of gym.

The Lady Nanooks volleyball team travelled to Galena on the weekend of Oct. 22 for an away non-conference match. Both the Lady Nanook varsity teams played against Galena and Hutchison while the Nome junior varsity team matched strength against Galena’s JV team.

A long table with a gavel resting on it. American flag in background.

After much discussion Monday night, the Nome Common Council did not pass a proposed emergency ordinance that would have prohibited sales of alcohol in town for on-site consumption.

The Nome-Beltz Volleyball teams placed second in their first home tournament of the season. The Lady Nanooks played Barrow and Bethel at the Nome-Beltz High School in the Arctic Pinkies volleyball tournament.

In a room 3 masked people stand facing a woman holding her right hand up.

Nome Public School’s Board of Education announced new projects at their October meeting.

Two masked men facing each other. Both are holding a piece of paper in one hand and then have the other hand raised. They are inside of a building.

The Nome Common Council met on Oct. 11 to swear in new council member Scot Henderson. Henderson replaces former council member Jennifer Reader, who chose not to run for reelection this year.

The Nome-Beltz High School cross country team wrapped up the 2021 season with the state championship in Anchorage on Saturday, October 9

Three Nome girl athletes posing for a picture outside in the track uniforms.

Last weekend, the Nome-Beltz Cross Country team travelled to Kotzebue to compete in the Big West Conference Cross Country Meet.

A man wearing a face mask and blue shirt holding up a long piece of paper. He is at a polling booth.

With four candidates in the running for Nome’s NSEDC representative, none managed to garner the 40% of the vote required to win the election.

Face masks stacks on top of one another on a table.

The State Department of Health and Social Services on Oct. 2 activated the crisis standards of care for Norton Sound Health Corporation along with 19 other state health care facilities.