{"id":31625,"date":"2025-07-30T04:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:28:15","slug":"city-renews-focus-on-outdoor-basketball-court-in-nome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31625\/","title":{"rendered":"City renews focus on outdoor basketball court in Nome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith\u00a0said details like whether the court would be full-sized or a half-court were still undecided. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got the space to do it, do we need lights? Do we not need lights? Probably not to start out with,\u201d Smith said. \u201cRec Center\u2019s on it, so that would be our hope to put up permanent facilities out there this time next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s cost, Smith estimated, would be in the ballpark of $200,000, but he suggested there was room to bring the price down. At that valuation, the city is already half of the way to funding the project after it received a <a href=\"https:\/\/knom.org\/2024\/05\/13\/nshc-donates-100k-to-five-communities-for-outdoor-basketball-courts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$100,000 board donation<\/a> from Norton Sound Health Corporation last year. Shaktoolik, Wales, Diomede and Golovin also received $100,000 donations for outdoor basketball courts.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the city would get creative with funding the rest of the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think right now I\u2019ve applied for four grants to see if we get some help on cost,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for grants to cover the majority of it, and just cross our fingers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If grant funding is secured, the city aims to begin construction of the outdoor basketball court in spring 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith\u00a0said details like whether the court would be full-sized or a half-court were still undecided. \u201cWe got the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-31625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}