Last month, villagers in Savoonga landed a bowhead whale. Before 2017, in every January people can remember, sea ice surrounded St. Lawrence Island, locking it in for the winter. Boat-launching and whale-taking were not possible. Now, the disc of ice chunks floating on the northern oceans is smaller than any recent year except 2010. […]
A missing person report was made from Savoonga to Alaska State Troopers based in Nome at 5:40 pm on September 14th, reporting that Savoonga man, 56-year-old Harlan Kingeekuk, was four days overdue from arriving back to the community. Harlan had gone out to a digging site by himself days before on the east side of […]
