The Nome Static, July 2019

Jerome Saclamana is one of several local artists who have been awarded grants from the Rasmuson Foundation to cultivate their crafts.

“It’s been my dream to do this since I was a kid, and it’s finally happening. I still can’t believe it.” 16-year-old Joycelyn Katcheak is the first Bering Strait School District student to receive a four-year college scholarship for wrestling. She will travel this fall to the University of Jamestown in North Dakota: 2,617 miles from her home village of Stebbins.

For the first time ever, high school students in Koyuk organized and led a workshop for their peers, this spring, on preventing bullying and substance abuse.

What would happen if a virulent, airborne disease hit the isolated villages of rural Alaska? That worst-case scenario was the focus of a statewide exercise this spring, “Ragin’ Contagion,” which included Nome and the KNOM listening community of Shaktoolik.

KNOM brought live coverage of Nome’s 2019 Memorial Day observances to listeners, helping the station remember and honor those who gave their life for their country.

“Thank you for making another year of KNOM possible,” Margaret writes in the end-note to KNOM’s July 2019 newsletter.