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Senate and House representatives from the Nome area have powerful positions on legislative finance committees but their opportunities will be to protect rural Alaska from cuts rather than to bring...
Pastor Harvey Fiskeaux performed the ceremony, blessing the truck with words, water and oil.
A brand new fire truck complementing Nome Volunteer Fire Department’s fleet rolled off the last barge a month ago and was formally blessed on Saturday, November 19. Fire chief Jim West Jr. gathered...
Nancy made Nome home and to that end she wanted to make Nome a better place to live. From her volunteering to her award winning journalism, she always put Nome first.  Politicians from all over...
SHE LOVED KIDS— Nancy McGuire holds young Andy Lean while Mikey Lean tends to baby Reba.
In my first real job, I worked for Nancy in the summers as a photo editor and office assistant. One summer, when a big news story broke out, the Nugget turned into a flurry. She had informants all...
During Iditarod time, Nancy McGuire opened her home and kitchen to countless visitors who would get the royal treatment of a king crab meal.
Nancy knew all she had to do was dangle the prospect of sitting at her table surrounded by her lively and intelligent friends for a king crab feast, and I would come running. No one held court like...
ADRIFT— A gold mining jackup rig operated by Phoenix Marine lost its spuds and an excavator during rough seas on the harbor on Nov. 17.
Waves of surprising height and ferocity sheared the four legs off a Phoenix Marine jack-up gold dredge on Nov. 17. The crippled barge sat grounded Friday east of the causeway, while Phoenix Marine...
Nancy McGuire is pictured with (left to right) John Handeland, Iditarod executive director Stan Hooley and Nome Mayor Richard Beneville during the 2016 Iditarod banquet in Anchorage
As Americans we hold close the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The first of those amendments includes freedom of religion, the freedom of speech and...
Nancy McGuire
“My memories of Nancy are the things of the heart; that was the world she lived in.  Temper that with an iron but pragmatic will, a keen interest in the natural world, a respect for others, and then...
Nome voters cast their ballots in voting stations at Old St. Joe's Hall, on election day, Nov. 8, 2016.
The electoral victory for president-elect Donald J. Trump and the surprising defeat of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton did not reflect how bush Alaska, including Nome and the region, voted in...
UNUSUAL FIND— Unalakleet residents found two moose bulls with locked antlers frozen in the ice, five miles east of Unalakleet.
An opportunity to experience something new led to a discovery unlike anything anyone had ever seen in Unalakleet last week. Brad Webster, Unalakleet junior high teacher and Covenant Bible Camp...

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