Tyler Kornelis speaks to members of the Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative at annual meeting. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative is trying to expand its business plan into selling seafood. The group formed in 2016, following a community gathering the year before which pinpointed a need for “a food co-op with [a] local …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The funding amount for the 2016 Gulf of Alaska pink salmon season disaster is on the verge of being announced. The City of Kodiak and Kodiak Island Borough’s federal lobbyist, Brad Gilman, updated Kodiak’s joint Fisheries Work Group at its meeting yesterday morning. Gilman said they thought they would hear the number before Memorial Day, but the funding …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The community is getting an updated hazard mitigation plan, an approach to reduce negative effects of disasters like earthquakes or fires on residents and properties. Anchorage-based LeMay Engineering & Consulting is in charge of the project. Company president Patrick LeMay gave a presentation on the plan yesterday. Only one member of the public attended. LeMay said communities need …

Representatives from the Alaska National Guard were in Kodiak last week to meet with community members, potential recruits, and tribal entities. Colonel Wayne Don, Colonel John James, Major General Laurie Hummel sat down with KMXT in a pre-recorded segment for today’s Talk of the Rock. They talked about what the Alaska Guard has been doing over the last few years …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A community member recently alleged that a city councilman asked her to censor a comment she’d planned to make before the city council. At a city regular meeting last week, Judi Kidder approached the microphone and recalled an incident that she claims happened shortly before an earlier work session. “Councilmember Whiddon appeared at my house and cautioned me …

Eileen Raese with the Local Boundary Commission speaks at the Kodiak Public Library. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A state representative went over the process of consolidation at a public forum last night. Local government specialist Eileen Raese presented to a group of more than 30 people at the library. She flew in at the request of …

Meeting of Governor Walker’s Climate Action Leadership team, chaired by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 12, 2018. (Photo by David Lienemann, Office of Governor Bill Walker / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott sees a future for renewable energy in Alaska. Mallott dropped by Kodiak last week for a …

Members of 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, conduct hoist training near Knik and Colony Glaciers. (Photo by Capt. Amy B. Slinker, Alaska Army National Guard / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska National Guard is trying to recruit more Alaska Native soldiers. Colonel Wayne Don was in Kodiak last week along with other members of the National …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The City of Kodiak will hire an independent contractor to conduct a third-party review of the dismissal of former deputy city manager Matt Van Daele. Since the decision to let him go earlier in the month, the city manager has not shared why he let Van Daele go despite requests from members of the public. City staff maintains …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Someone allegedly tried to kidnap a young female student at Baranof Park yesterday. That’s according to an alert from the Kodiak Police Department seeking public assistance to find a person of interest. According to the notice, KPD heard about the attempt at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Sgt. Francis De La Fuente says the student was making a phone …