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The Nome Nugget | Alaska's Oldest Newspaper
SUNNY VIEW—Breakfast customers finish their meal as late-morning sunshine floods the Polar Cub Café on the morning of Sunday, November 23. The restaurant will close for meal service on Friday, November 28.
The Polar Cub Café’s 50-year run has come to an end. On Friday, November 28, the storied restaurant will close for meal service. 
STATE OF THE SCHOOLS— Nome School District Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the state of the schools address at the Nome Common Council on Monday, Nov. 10.
Nome Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the annual State of the Schools address to the Nome Common Council’s work session on Monday, November 10.
GRAPPLING— Nanook Kive Shannon and Qyren Jones of Galena compete for the 126-lbs championship title at the Dudley Homelvig Scramble on Friday, November 7, 2025. Shannon ended up winning the bout.
Fifteen wrestling teams descended on the Nome-Beltz High School gymnasium last week for the second annual Dudley Homelvig Scramble competing in a three-day tournament that stretched from Thursday to Saturday afternoon.
UNALAKLEET— Unalakleet’s Post Office was missing part of the roof. It has been repaired as of Tuesday.
One woman was recovered dead, and two persons are still missing in Kwigillingok after ex-typhoon Halong ravaged villages along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta last weekend.
LEARNING— Visitors explore the newly renovated Bering Land Bridge Preserve Visitor Center on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.
By Ariana Crockett O’Harra | The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Heritage Center re-opened its doors on September 6 after spending nearly a year undergoing renovations.
SUNNY VIEW—Breakfast customers finish their meal as late-morning sunshine floods the Polar Cub Café on the morning of Sunday, November 23. The restaurant will close for meal service on Friday, November 28.
STATE OF THE SCHOOLS— Nome School District Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the state of the schools address at the Nome Common Council on Monday, Nov. 10.
GRAPPLING— Nanook Kive Shannon and Qyren Jones of Galena compete for the 126-lbs championship title at the Dudley Homelvig Scramble on Friday, November 7, 2025. Shannon ended up winning the bout.
UNALAKLEET— Unalakleet’s Post Office was missing part of the roof. It has been repaired as of Tuesday.
The Graphite One exploration camp, on the northern slopes of the Kigluaik Mountains.
LEARNING— Visitors explore the newly renovated Bering Land Bridge Preserve Visitor Center on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.
RESOLUTION— Brevig Mission Mayor William Kakoona signed a resolution opposing Graphite One, along with the presidents of the tribe and Native corporation of Brevig Mission, on Saturday, Nov. 21.
As the public comment period on a major permit application for the proposed graphite mine in the northern Kigluaik Mountains winds down, the nearest communities that would be affected by the mine are voicing their opposition. On Monday, the lights...
NOME WILL GET BUSY— Kiewit representative Dan Petersen presented the timeline for the first phase of the Port of Nome expansion. Next year, he said, the bulk of operations will be to mine rocks from Cape Nome and truck them to town.
With the first phase of the Port of Nome expansion beginning next year, representatives of Kiewit — the general contractor for the project — along with Bering Straits Native Corporation and the Teamsters and Operating Engineers unions held a meeting...
SUNNY VIEW—Breakfast customers finish their meal as late-morning sunshine floods the Polar Cub Café on the morning of Sunday, November 23. The restaurant will close for meal service on Friday, November 28.
The Polar Cub Café’s 50-year run has come to an end. On Friday, November 28, the storied restaurant will close for meal service.  On the morning of Sunday, November 23, the morning sun was just peeking through the windows of the café, customers...
Glad to be safe— Chinese pilots Ping Wang and Shenghao Luo landed in Teller when their plane ran low on fuel and was icing up, after a planned stop in Nome was foiled by bad weather.
UPDATE: The pilots received what they needed to continue their journey and departed Teller on Saturday, landing in Anchorage that night.   Teller had unexpected guests arriving in the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 19 as two Chinese pilots landed a...
THE HEAT OF PLAY -  Cassidy Martinson handles a Valdez serve with Roselynn Paniptchuk and Chevy Reader watching.
The Nome-Beltz Lady Nanooks volleyball put up a tough fight last week at the Alaska State 3A Championships. On Thursday, November 13, the team went up against number one seed in the state, Valdez, and lost, 0-3. Assistant Coach Krystal Hensley said...
Volunteers prepare food boxes during the first week of November, at the XYZ Center in Nome.
The delay in SNAP benefits caused immediate effects in the Bering Strait region. Community aid organizations sprang into action while local grocery stores saw fewer customers and a drop in sales. SNAP benefits were delayed as a result of the...
PACKED COMMUNITY HALL – Residents of Brevig Mission listened to subsistence hunter and fisherman Elmer Seetot Jr. as he expressed concern about Graphite One’s potential adverse effects to water and land, on Wednesday, November 12.
About 100 residents of Brevig Mission gathered last week in a public townhall meeting hosted by the tribe, the city and the Native corporation to address concerns about a proposed graphite mine as federal regulators are soliciting public comments on...
The Nome Food Bank is stocked, in this Thursday, November 13 photo. The Food Bank is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
SNAP benefits should be issued as soon as Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Health, which administers the federal SNAP program in the state  through the Department of Public Assistance.  “Alaska is working to send the...
IT’S HERE!— Assistant Principal Maggie Gray points excitedly to part that was needed to fix the broken AWOS system in Shishmaref, to allow for FAA weather reporting again.
Rural Alaskans know the drill. Bad weather can ground flights and interfere with one’s travel plans. Or, if it’s not the weather, flights may get grounded when the FAA’s weather reporting system does not work and commercial aircraft can’t fly...
STATE OF THE SCHOOLS— Nome School District Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the state of the schools address at the Nome Common Council on Monday, Nov. 10.
Nome Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the annual State of the Schools address to the Nome Common Council’s work session on Monday, November 10. In her report, Burgess emphasized how a reduction of funding from the city and the...
GRAPPLING— Nanook Kive Shannon and Qyren Jones of Galena compete for the 126-lbs championship title at the Dudley Homelvig Scramble on Friday, November 7, 2025. Shannon ended up winning the bout.
Fifteen wrestling teams descended on the Nome-Beltz High School gymnasium last week for the second annual Dudley Homelvig Scramble competing in a three-day tournament that stretched from Thursday to Saturday afternoon. Despite the late evening on...
FOOD AID DISTRIBUTION – People enter the XYZ Senior Center to collect Food Aid boxes distributed by the Nome Food Bank and Kawerak on Monday, November 3.
Kawerak and the Nome Community Center sprang into action earlier this week to cover the gap imposed by the delay in SNAP benefit payments this month. The monthslong government shutdown resulted in a lapse in funding from the federal government to...

Obituaries

Michael Keith Magnell
Michael Keith Magnell was born on July 30, 1946 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He passed on September 23, 2025 in Orange County, California with his wife...

Education

STATE OF THE SCHOOLS— Nome School District Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the state of the schools address at the Nome Common Council on Monday, Nov. 10.

Nome Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the annual State of the Schools address to the Nome Common Council’s work session on Monday, November 10.

The Nome Nugget

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