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RECORD— Stuart Towarak breaks one-foot high kick record at Arctic Winter Games.
Unalakleet’s Stuart Towarak set a new Arctic Winter Games record in the Open Male One-Foot High Kick in South Slave, NWT Canada last Thursday. Towarak, the son of former champion high kicker Ike...
WINNING TEAM— Nome cheerleaders won last week’s State Championships in Anchorage. They are: Mackenzie Goodwin, Minnie Clark, Anna Peterson, Talia Cross, Maya Coler, Emily Pomrenke, Kelsie Crisci, Erin Johanson, Courtney Merchant, Kelly Lyon, Ellie Martinson, Ava Earthman, Madison Johnson and JJ Marble.
The Nome Nanooks cheerleaders took first place in the Alaska State Activities Association’s Large Division Championships held on March 22 in Anchorage. They competed against some of the state’s...
GOLDEN HARNESS WINNER— Joar Leifseth Ulsom’s lead dog Russeren received the Lolly Medley Memorial Golden Harness Award, presented by the City of Nome.
The Iditarod family of mushers, volunteers, and everybody else filled Nome’s Rec Center gym Sunday night for the Last Great Race’s Nome finisher’s banquet. Over 600 people sat down to listen to the...
CHAMPION— Jarvis Miller of Nome won overall and the C Class of the 2018 Nome-Golovin snowmachine race in a time of 2:08:18.
Fifty-five snowmachine racers gathered under sunny, clear skies and cold temperatures in the single digits on the sea ice east of Nome to hit the trail for the 52nd running of the Nome-Golovin...
IDITAROD 2018— Aaron Burmeister leaves the ceremonial startline last Saturday in Anchorage.
Sixty-seven mushers and their teams gathered in downtown Anchorage on Saturday, March 2 for the ceremonial start of the 46th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Overcast skies, temperatures...
NOME GOLOVIN— The Nome Golovin snowmachine race starts on Saturday at noon at the sea ice in front of Nome.
The 2018 Nome-Golovin snow machine race starts Saturday at noon. This year racers will compete for $40,000 in cash prizes. The overall winner gets $2,000 and an ounce of gold from Pomrenke mining....
Team 10 Mike Morgan and Chris Olds hoist the first place trophies after winning the 2018 Iron Dog.
Nome’s Mike Morgan and teammate Chris Olds of Eagle River are the victors in the 2018 Iron Dog snow machine race. The pair arrived first to the halfway point in Nome and held a small lead all the way...
IRON DOGS— Iron Dog rider Mike Morgan roars out the gate with team mate Chris Olds following, on Sunday, Feb. 18 as the Iron Dog snowmobile race started in Big Lake
For the first time ever the Iron Dog snow machine race declared an unscheduled 24-hour layover. Riders were ready to leave Unalakleet early Tuesday morning but the problem of high water on Norton...
READY—The wrenching is done and Tre West is ready for Sunday’s start of the 2018 Iron Dog snowmachine race
“We drove pretty much most of the course,” said Tre West at his Nome shop Saturday.  “It’s flat and fast this year. It’s going to be a fast year I think.” West is running his eighth Iron Dog. His...
Stephanie Johnson and her dog team participated in last week's NKC 20-mile race.
For the winter season, Nome Kennel Club has planned a series of local sled dog races, having held its first one on January 27 with a 20-mile/10-dog and an eight-mile/eight-dog event for local mushers...

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