Longtime Alaska newspaper publisher dies after cancer battle
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Nancy McGuire, the longtime publisher of Alaska’s oldest newspaper, said goodbye to her subscribers in an editorial published Thursday, the day she died after battling cancer for years. She was 72.
McGuire was publisher of the weekly Nome Nugget for 34 years in the western Alaska town of Nome. Her friend and former Nome mayor, John Handeland, said McGuire died at a local long-term care facility.
Even as her health waned, McGuire was determined to remain in Nome instead of seeking medical treatment elsewhere.