Following the winter holidays, Nome Public Schools (NPS) and the Bering Strait School District (BSSD) are returning to in-person instruction which began Monday, January 11th, while the Lower Yukon School District (LYSD) will proceed with a distance-learning model.
NPS announced last Thursday via a social media post that they will be returning to in-person learning with “all COVID-19 mitigation procedures still in effect.”
Ahead of the announcement, during a Nome School Board meeting in early December, NPS Superintendent Jamie Burgess spoke about the conditions required to return to in-person instruction.
“So, if everything works exceptionally well, we’ll be welcoming students back in on January 11th. January 4th was always planned to be a distance-learning week because we will have a significant number of staff and families traveling over the winter break. We want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to observe quarantine and that we actually have enough staff
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.