Former deputy city manager Matt Van Daele says he’s proud of his time working for the City of Kodiak. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT The City of Kodiak recently fired its deputy city manager, Matthew Van Daele. According to Van Daele, when he got to work last Thursday (5/03) he was notified of his termination, which took ... Read More »
Mitch Borden/KMXT After taking almost a year to decide on a request to rezone a piece of land from a hunting lodge in Larsen Bay, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly finally made its decision. At a recent regular meeting, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly rejected a request made by a hunting lodge in Larsen Bay to change the zoning of the ... Read More »
Kodiak elders gather at the Afognak Native Corporation building for Koniag’s annual elder luncheon. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT On Saturday, people gathered at the Afognak Native Corporation building to celebrate the contributions of Kodiak’s Alutiiq elders. Koniag Incorporated, Kodiak’s native regional corporation, hosted the event and got to make a particularly exciting announcement at this year’s elder luncheon. ... Read More »
Cruise ship passengers line up at visitor center to take bus back to ship. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The first cruise ship of the season stopped by Kodiak on Friday. KMXT walked downtown and chatted with some tourists. That was KMXT talking with passengers and employees from the first cruise ship of the season. Read More »
Bald eagle. (Photo byUSFWSmidwest/ Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT It’s a rough year for one of the island’s flying scavengers, the bald eagle. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bird biologist Robin Corcoran responds to reports of injured eagles, which she says travel to Kodiak from the Kenai Peninsula in January and stay till around this time. While here, they tend to get ... Read More »
Single-use plastic shopping bags on the street. (Photo by Velkr0/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT Threshold Services Incorporated will not accept plastic film for the foreseeable future. That means the recycling center won’t collect things like plastic shopping bags, bubble wrap, and anything made from thin stretchy plastics. The reason these products aren’t being accepted at Kodiak’s main recycling center is they’re currently worthless on ... Read More »
Toby Sullivan. (Photo courtesy of the Alaska Salmon Fellows) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A group aimed at salmon sustainability met in Petersburg late last month. The Alaska Salmon Fellows program is in its second year, and now includes two Kodiak fellows. One is Toby Sullivan, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum. KMXT sat down with him ... Read More »
Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak residents will rally to clean local streets tomorrow – at least that’s the hope of the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber organizes Community Clean Up day every year, and executive Director Trevor Brown says participation usually depends on weather, but so does the amount of trash strewn around town. “It’s been a rough winter with the ... Read More »
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