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The 2012 Cama-i Festival is scheduled for March 23-25, 2012 – the YK Delta’s premier dance event showcasing local, regional, state, national, and international dance groups. This year’s...

Bill Kazmaier, the World’s Strongest Man and American strength legend – came to Bethel last week from Alabama to speak to the youth of Bethel to encourage, motivate, and empower them to believe,...

BP made several donations to local organizations in Bethel last week. Allen Hipper (originally of Bethel), who is a Community Advisory Board Member for BP, presented a $500 monetary donation to the...

To all our dear friends and fellow community members – we would like to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The Delta Discovery had another wonderful year in 2011 with you all – quyana cakneq...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) Division of Subsistence presented their Lower Kuskokwim Big Game Survey Project to the Bethel City Council and are seeking a resolution of support for th...

Spirit of Youth, a nonprofit organization is seeking to recognize Alaskan youth for their community involvement. The application for making a nomination is available at www.spiritofyouth.org....

The Bethel City Council passed a resolution supporting the bypass mail system in bush Alaska on the consent agenda during their November 22, 2011 city council meeting. The resolution (11-34),...

Allen Dock of the Army National Guard in Bethel has been preparing his family for his upcoming travel overseas. He left Bethel last Saturday night for Indiana for training for the upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. “I’m kind of nervous to...

Last Tuesday the National Weather Service (NWS) issued coastal flood, high wind, and blizzard warnings for western Alaska from the Chukchi Sea Coast to the Kuskokwim Delta, and the Western and...

James Atseriak of Grant Aviation of Bethel was presented the Patriot Award from the Alaska Army National Guard Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) in recognition of their selfless support...

Maryann Sundown, iconic culture-bearer and beloved elder of Scammon Bay, passed away last Wednesday in her home surrounded by family and friends after having fallen ill with pneumonia. She was 93....

Congratulations to the 5th Annual Alaska Marketplace Competition winners who were announced at the 2011 Alaska Federation of Natives Convention last week. This year’s theme was “Planting Seeds of...

The AVCP 49th Annual Convention was held last week October 11-13. The theme this year was “Celebrate our Culture to Enhance our Future.” Tribal leaders met to hear reports from the congressional...

Elder Aluska Nanalook of Manokotak is now 78. She was born in born in Togiak before moving to Manokotak in 1947 when Manokotak first became a community. She was a commercial fisherwoman for over 50 ye...

Last Thursday, the residents of Crooked Creek celebrated the nearing completion of 9 new homes built through the help of Samaritan’s Purse, CRWRC (Christian Reformed World Relief Committee)...

Search and Rescue teams along the lower Kuskokwim have been continuing their search for a missing Bethel man, Walter Springer, age 25. According to a report from the Alaska State Troopers, on Septembe...

The ordinance for the Bethel City Council to prohibit the addition of fluoride in any form to community water systems and water processed for use by the public passed introduction by a vote of 6-1....

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a preliminary report on what happened on September 2, 2011 to cause the Cessna 208 Caravan piloted by Scott Veal to crash on the tundra near Nigh...

The City of Bethel Council voted on the top three priorities for the City of Bethel. At number one is the Small Boat Harbor Dredging for $4 million. Second on the list is the City Shop Floor for $1.5...

Bethel’s last remaining monolithic relic from World War II – the White Alice tropospheric antenna – fell with a loud crash last Thursday at approximately 4:40pm. It was the last tropospheric ant...

Yute Air hosted a customer appreciation picnic last Saturday in Bethel with food and prizes – and the kids got to paint one of the airplanes. Tim Vottis, President of Yute Air and other management...

An ordinance to allow the City of Bethel’s council to take action on behalf of a commission when the commission is unable to take required action due to lack of a quorum or otherwise passed introduc...

An ordinance to amend the Bethel Municipal Code (BMC) to govern how many unexcused absences and the number of meetings a council member can miss failed. Ordinance 11-11, introduced by council member...

Bethel’s towering 60 ft. high tropospheric radar left over from the Cold War era, known as White Alice, will soon be demolished. The unused antenna located near the old BIA Road is visible for...

My family and I traveled up to Fairbanks this past week to attend the 50th Annual Celebration of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics. Our YK Delta athletes represented our region well – including the...

by Greg Lincoln The Bethel Lifesavers, through the work of Beverly Hoffman, have organized a community leadership meeting that met on May 24, 2011 to discuss the formation of a partnership for the...

A resolution to support the preparation and submission of a grant to reprint the book “Bethel – The First 100 Years” was approved unanimously by the Bethel City Council. This book, authored by...