Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented Alaska. Their school’s winner: The dragonfly. It mauled the mosquito, battered the butterfly and bested the bumblebee. The Aniak students’ results mirrored others across the state: The […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School teacher Byron Fischer unfolded a large collage in his third grade classroom, revealing a U.S. flag and a flanking Alaska flag festooned with the faces of Aniak military veterans. Some photos showed veterans contemporary to conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, while others were grainy black-and-white images […]
An Aniak man has been jailed and charged with Murder I and other charges following an initial on-scene investigation by the Bethel Major Crimes Unit on Tuesday. Alaska State Troopers were notified at 8:24 am that Aniak resident Mary White, age 45, was discovered deceased in her home. A Wildlife Trooper in the community responded […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Saturday that an Aniak suspect was killed and a deputy U.S. Marshal was wounded in an incident in Aniak on Friday afternoon. Troopers and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force, at AST request, traveled to the village to “effect a high-risk arrest warrant,” for Andrew John, age 34, who was […]