Nome Has a New Public Safety Commission — and a New Deputy Chief of Police
Nome now has nine members appointed to its first-ever public safety commission after the common council confirmed them during Monday night’s City Council meeting.
Alaska Native Voices from WWII Are Focus of Historical Project
Dr. Holly Miowak Guise, an Inupiaq woman raised in Anchorage and Unalakleet, has spent years gathering oral histories of the World War II era from Alaska elders. The Alaska Native experience during the war, Dr. Guise says — an experience that was, for many, one of hardship and struggle — is a subject discussed very little in the school system.