Selawik

Alaska State Troopers say 37-year-old Adrian Ticket had admitted to beating Nettie Ballot the night before at his home and discovered her dead in the morning. The 38-year-old Selawik woman was the mother of his three children.

Alaska State Troopers responded to the village Monday, after the 7-year-old boy had been missing for two days.

According to court documents, on Sunday 45-year-old Clarence Snyder Jr. threatened his wife and children with a pistol. One of Snyder’s children allegedly told troopers that Snyder fired the pistol twice in his wife’s direction while she was lying on the floor crying and that both parents were intoxicated at the time.

Court documents show Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip on March 12 that 23-year-old Spencer Pungalik and another man from Noorvik planned to transport the airfreighted alcohol from Kotzebue’s airport to Selawik.

Norma Ballot was one of the sign’s designers.“The old sign? It needed help,” said Norma Ballot, one of the sign’s designers. “The old sign looked too much federal-y style.”

According to an Alaska State Trooper’s dispatch, the cause of the fire is unknown. The person has not been positively identified yet, but local responders searched and were unable to account for 35-year-old Selawik resident Lester Hingsbergen.

Several weeks after an outage knocked out power in the Northwest Arctic village of Selawik, officials say it has been restored. However, the outage has exacerbated chronic problems at the local water treatment plant.

The state emergency management department says the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative is working with regional entities on clearing frozen well transmission lines as well as restoring power to parts of the community.

While many residents said they have a secondary heat source at home, four families stayed overnight at the local school. Selawik officials have ordered a temporary water supply from Kotzebue.

According to a release from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the spill originated last Wednesday, Nov. 25, at a fuel tank for the village’s water treatment plant.