Noatak

According to a trooper dispatch, the body of 21-year-old Henry Penn Jr. of Noatak was found a mile downriver from the community on June 26.

40-year-old John Booth left Noatak around 3pm on Friday and was reported overdue the next day.

Troopers say 36-year-old Georgia Onalik was operating the vehicle with an male passenger when it crashed on Willow Street.

On Friday Superior Court Judge Paul Roetman handed down the prison term for 45-year-old Jim Adams, who was convicted by a Kotzebue jury of second-degree murder in September.

Noatak Tribal Administrator Herbert Walton says that the village believes that they already do a good job maintaining their water utility, and they don’t need help from the borough.