Two high school seniors from Toksook Bay's Nelson Island School bow their heads in prayer during the Week of Hope and Healing on May 13, 2023. (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media) Roughly 500 ...

Nelson Island Area School is a public school located in Toksook Bay, AK, which is in a remote rural setting. The student population of Nelson Island Area School is 169 and the school serves PK-12.

Mertarvik is a newly constructed village on Nelson Island that the village of Newtok is relocating to. July 16, 2020 in Mertarvik, Alaska. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The federal government announced a $ ...

Sponsor Message But since Alaska became a state in 1959 ... The day before the count, classes ended early at Nelson Island School to allow mourners to pay their respects to a former resident ...

They picked Nelson Island, nine miles south on the other side ... For NPR News, I'm Emily Schwing in Newtok, Alaska.

Seventeen-year-old Byron Nicholai of Toksook Bay, Alaska, was always an overachiever. He learned traditional Yup'ik drumming when he was in sixth grade, became leader of the Nelson Island High ...

Roughly 500 miles Southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, the Yup'ik village of Toksook Bay faces the Bering Sea on the coast of Nelson Island, called Qaluyaaq by the residents who speak Yugtun.

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — A federal grant will allow an extensive trail system to connect all four communities on Nelson Island, just off Alaska’s western coast. The $12 million grant will pay to ...