New Year’s Eve celebrations on Nome’s Front Street will be fairly quiet this year if the Nome Common Council decides to keep bars closed to on-site service until 2021. The council debates a new emergency ordinance during tonight’s regular meeting that would keep those establishments limited to take-out service only until January 4
th, 2021.
The council voted on November 25
th to suspend all dine-in alcohol consumption at Nome establishments to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the city. That order expired midnight last night [DEC 13]. Tonight’s focus is specifically on alcohol sales. City Manager, Glenn Steckman, can limit dine-in restaurant service without approval from the council, but regulations on the sale of alcohol must be decided by council vote.