Sports

Photo by Ariana Crockett O'Harra
After an exciting Big West Regional Meet held in Nome on Saturday, September 26 that featured competitors from Kotzebue, Utqiagvik, Bethel and Nome, the Nanooks are sending five runners to the State...
Photo by Chelsea Hubert
*/ The Nanook Cross Country team traveled to Kotzebue last weekend to compete in the Kotzebue Invitational. The traveling team consisted of eight high school boys, four high school girls, three...
Photo by Ariana Crockett O'Harra
The Lady Nanooks faced off against the Kotzebue Huskies last Saturday at the Nome-Beltz High School gym. In a sweep, both the junior varsity and varsity Nanooks defeated the Huskies twice. The teams...
Photo by Ariana Crockett O'Harra
Thick fog Saturday morning led to weather delays for the annual Nome-Beltz Musk Ox Classic cross country run meet, held on trails behind the Nome-Beltz campus. The first race of the day was the Nome...
Photo by Diana Haecker
Ten community members of all ages took to the pool, roads, and trails on Saturday, July 25, for the annual Stroke-n-Croak Triathlon, a fundraiser benefiting the Nome Northstar Swim Team and the Nome-...
Photo by Ariana Crockett O’Harra
The Anvil Mountain Run started not on the customary Fourth of July, as it has for 48 years, but on the day before. Organizers, after consulting with racers, decided to race on Friday, July 3 to give...
TRACK AND FIELD—  Granite Peacock crosses the finish line first in a photo finish during the finals of the boys 400-meter dash at the Region II Track & Field Meet in Talkeetna, last week.
The Nome-Beltz Track team had a late start to the season this year, with only about a month of regular practices, due to the lack of a coach. Lahka Peacock filled the void and stepped up to coach the...
SKIMEISTER — Ella Hubert of Nome, right, was crowned the Middle School Girls Skimeister at the recent WISA Ski/Biathlon Championships held in Galena, on March 26-28, 2026.
The Nanooks finished their ski and biathlon season last weekend with the 2026 First Tracks Ski Race & Invitational in White Mountain. The previous weekend, Nanooks competed at the Western...
Start of the NKC Nome-Golovin 200 race.
The Nome Kennel Club last week hosted the inaugural Nome-Golovin 200 sled dog race, with four local teams and three teams from Two Rivers and Nenana competing. Historically, the Nome Kennel Club has...
RED LANTERN – Final musher into Nome Richie Beattie extinguishes the Red Lantern after arriving in Nome on Friday, March 20. Beattie finished with a total time of 12 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 46 seconds with eight dogs in harness.
The 54th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race came to a conclusion on Friday evening, when Richie Beattie arrived in Nome at 7:49 p.m. Beattie, of Fairbanks, extinguished the Widow’s Lantern,...

Pages

The Nome Nugget

PO Box 610
Nome, Alaska 99762
USA

Phone: (907) 443-5235
Fax: (907) 443-5112

www.nomenugget.net

External Links