Stranded seal in Nome released into wild

Friday evening a seal made its way out of Nome’s iced-in port and up into the west side of town. Although it showed some physical signs of sickness, on Saturday local experts ultimately decided to release the seal back into the wild.
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The bearded seal made its way of out the iced-in port up into a parking lot. Photo: Emily Russell, KNOM.
Besides looking a little patchy and out of place in the snow-covered parking lot on Nome’s west side of town, ther