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Inside the Nome (Alaska) Nugget

Jun 25, 2025

The staff of The Nome (Alaska) Nugget created this video to showcase the newspaper and who they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQVvasp49Q&t=26s

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Defying the odds

When Barb Shepherd, Eileen Everett and Joann Ramer launched a weekly newspaper in Florida, they were low on funding but rich in hopes and dreams;
30 years later, it’s going strong

Judgment, brains and maturity

I have been thinking back to the 15-year-old me, who had learned a few magic tricks and was convinced he was ready to enter the stage contest at the Texas Association of Magicians convention.

Roswell UFO controversy was a local story

When a New Mexico farmer discovered what he thought was a UFO crash in his pasture, authorities turned to the local newspaper and put a sleepy western town on the map