Leader from White Mountain and Late Nome Mayor Receive Governor’s Awards
Two Norton Sound leaders, Roy Agloinga and James ‘Richard’ Beneville, received this year’s Governor’s Arts and Humanities Award. Agloinga, who received the Distinguished Service to the Humanities award in education, is originally from White Mountain, and has worked to preserve the village’s dialect. He says the award announcement came as a shock. “I was pretty […]
Local Heroes Save Power and Water During Storm
Right before the new year began, much of Western Alaska experienced unusually mild, stormy weather. While winter storms are par for the course in Nome, freezing rain and slush are unusual in December. With gale-force winds wracking Nome, much of the city suffered blackouts. (At KNOM, the power was out for nearly an hour.) Despite […]