Starting Positions Set for 2018 Iditarod; 67 Mushers to Depart from Willow on Sunday
![Miss Alaska 2017, Angelina Klapperich, poses next to the trophy (bearing a likeness of the late Joe Redington, Sr.) that will be given to the 2018 Iditarod champion.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/03012018-MusherBanquet-Miss-Alaska-1002x1200.jpg)
After bib #1 was dedicated to this year’s honorary musher, the late Joe Redington, Jr., Cody Strathe and all the other 66 registered mushers drew numbers from a traditional mukluk boot during Thursday night’s mushers banquet in Anchorage. Strathe will be the first musher to leave Willow Sunday afternoon.
City Council Passes All Business, Including Agreement to Have Nome’s Cemetery Surveyed
![The Nome Cemetery. Photo: Laura Kraegel, KNOM.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-05-18-untitled-004-2432px-1200x900.jpg)
All four present councilmen voted in favor of the nearly $68,000 ground-penetrating radar survey agreement. The only other piece of business on the Council’s agenda also passed unanimously. Through a resolution, the Council declared February as School Board recognition month in Nome.
2017 NSEDC Community Benefit Share Funds Distributed During Nome City Council Meeting
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The Nome Community Center got four separate awards, worth a total of $43,500, to use for the XYZ Senior Center, Camp Crave, the Boys & Girls Club, and the Food Bank. Each requesting entity walked away with at least $1,500, except for the Nome Public Schools’ Bridge Club, who received no funding.
Candidates Declared for 2017 Nome Municipal Elections; Mayor Running Unopposed
![Nome Mayor Richard Beneville cuts the ribbon with representative Neal Foster to kickstart the opening of the cultural center, museum, and library in the Richard Foster Building.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC01746-1200x900.jpg)
Incumbent Nome mayor Richard Beneville is slated to run unopposed in the October 3rd municipal election. Multiple seats on the Common Council and on the School Board will see ballot races.
City Council, Utility Board, School Board Seats Up For Grabs in Upcoming Nome Election
![Photo: David Dodman, KNOM.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-04-general-election-004-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
A six-member election board will assist local voters as they cast their ballots for Mayor, two City Council seats, two Utility Board seats, and three School Board seats. The deadline to file as a candidate for the upcoming election is September 12th at 5pm. Election day is Tuesday, October 3rd.
Alcohol Related Ordinances Postponed, City Manager’s Contract Unofficially Renewed
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Councilman Stan Anderson requested that an ordinance limiting the hours of liquor sales and an ordinance for a ten percent excise tax on alcohol be kicked off the agenda. The Council unanimously approved, with the intention to bring them back after holding a work session on August 14th.
City of Nome Aims to Curb Public Intoxication with New Ordinances
![Businesses on Nome's Front Street, including the Anchor Tavern, Husky, Golden China, and Maruskiya's gift shop.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2013-05-19-grey-nome-sunday-20-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
These items of new business include an ordinance making it illegal to be intoxicated in a public right of way, an ordinance limiting the hours to sell liquor in town, as well as an ordinance to put a ten percent excise tax on alcohol sales.
Nome City Council Expected to Pass City Budgets for FY ‘18
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If the Council passes the Nome General Fund Municipal budget, then the total expenditure will be slightly over $12 million for FY ‘18. The Council meets tonight at 7pm in Council Chambers.