Daysha Eaton

KMXT news director moves on

Daysha Eaton (left) and Kayla Desroches. (Photo Courtesy of Kayla Desroches) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kayla Desroches has served as a reporter and news director for KMXT public radio in Kodiak for three years Friday, August 31, is her last day of work at the station. Daysha Eaton, who has been helping out as a reporter at KMXT over the summer, sat …

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Military plans exercises in Gulf of Alaska for spring despite widespread opposition

Phyl Frets and Sophie Frets at a 2015 Northern Edge protest in Kodiak. (Photo Courtesy of Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak) Daysha Eaton/KMXT After requests from Gulf of Alaska communities that the U.S. Military reschedule or cancel its Northern Edge exercises in the Gulf, officials recently announced they’ll go ahead and hold the training this spring. Northern Edge involves all five …

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Free community health forum set for Kodiak

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Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Kodiak Area Native Association, or KANA, is hosting a health forum in Kodiak. It is called Healthy Kodiak 2018. The forum is open to the entire community and it is free. It is focused on strategies to promote community awareness. The day will be filled with interactive discussions, educational presentations, and activities facilitated by a range of …

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Old Harbor garden bears veggies, residents hope to keep it going

Lettuce growing at the farm in Old Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT This summer, the community of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island harvested vegetables and fruit from their farm in significant quantities for the first time. The agricultural experiment provided enough produce to sell at the local store. One employee and some seasonal helpers have overseen the …

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China likely spying on Pacific Spaceport Complex says Pentagon

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility on Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A report from the Pentagon says a Chinese spy ship sailed near the Aleutian Islands last July “likely to monitor” a missile test underway at the Kodiak spaceport. That’s according to a story Monday [8/27] in the Kodiak Daily Mirror newspaper. The U.S. military conducted two …

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Police warn fentanyl-laced drugs found in Kodiak

Photo Courtesy of KPD. Daysha Eaton/KMXT The drug fentanyl recently turned up in Kodiak during a routine police investigation. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is many times more potent than heroin. Pharmaceutical use of fentanyl is legal. However, illegal possession and distribution of fentanyl is related to an increasing number of accidental overdoses in the United States. Fentanyl is …

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Duo stops in Kodiak to document Tusty ferry stories

Lucy Peckham and Michael Sakarias with the M/V Tustumena on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Two documentarians are riding the Tustumena from Homer to Unalaska this week, making stops along the way to collect stories about the ferry. Kodiak was the first stop along the ferry’s western route for Lucy Peckham, of Anchorage, and Michael …

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Kodiak police search turns up possible stolen items, meth

Police light. (Photo via Wikimedia) By Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak Police Department detectives recently served a search warrant on a home on Hillside Street. In a press release issued this morning, KPD said the search on Friday, August 17 yielded approximately seven grams of methamphetamine along with several pieces of possible stolen property. KPD has been looking into a series of …

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ASMI says fish meal included in tariff changes, calls for comments

Rock Fish on the Trident Seafoods plant assembly line in Kodiak, Alaska on Saturday May 27, 2018. (Photo/Daysha Eaton) By Daysha Eaton/KMXT A spokesperson for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, or ASMI, says the organization recently received clarification about tariff changes that went into effect on July 6, for Alaska seafood products going into the Chinese domestic market. “We previously …

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Old Harbor gets engine from Bayside Fire in Kodiak

Old Harbor Mayor Rick Berns posed with a member of the community’s volunteer fire department in front of their new engine which they received from Bayside Fire Department in Kodiak. (Photos by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Old Harbor has a new fire truck. Well, at least a new used one. Old Harbor Mayor, Rick Berns, says the 1983,750-gallon Ford Grumman fire engine …

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