Kayla Desroches

Insurance and Timber Harvest in Chiniak on Borough Assembly Agenda

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Insurance and the timber harvest area in Chiniak will both be topics at this week’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Regular meeting. The assembly walked through the regular meeting agenda at its work session last week. Borough Manager Michael Powers spoke on a resolution that would authorize the borough’s continued enrollment in the Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association …

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Group Asks Borough to Purchase KSMSC Building and Property

Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. Photo Courtesy of UAF Kayla Desroches/KMXT A group trying to prepare for the possible closure of the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center would like the Kodiak Island Borough to consider taking ownership of the building and property. Members from the Alaska Research Consortium, which include Assemblymen Larry LeDoux and Scott Smiley, sat down …

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Community Archaeology Program Digs Up the Whole Picture

Excavations at the Kashevaroff site during Community Archaeology 2015. Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak’s amateur and professional archaeologists are in their final year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek as part of the Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program. Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall says they’ve been unearthing different parts of the same site for the …

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First of July Brings With it First Friday

Click for full view Kayla Desroches/KMXT Today is the first of July, and that means it’s also First Friday. It’ll be a bright night for driving, walking, and biking between the various locations that’ll host the local artists of Kodiak. Two crafters who work with Kodiak driftwood as a medium will exhibit their pieces at the Baranov Museum starting at …

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Nonprofits Will Need to Speak Up Soon to Secure Borough Funding

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak nonprofits who want borough funding will need to gather their forces and defend their cases over the next couple of weeks. As stated at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly work session Thursday night, the money budgeted for nonprofits was decreased by 40% for fiscal year 2017, and assembly members will soon decide how to distribute the reduced …

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Assembly Considers Change to FY18 Nonprofit Funding Process

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Nonprofit funding is one of three items on tonight’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly work session agenda, and the assembly will consider a change in the borough’s nonprofit granting process. The assembly is at the beginning of its fiscal year 2017 grant discussion, and has not yet released grant applications, but it is thinking in the long-term. It’s looking …

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Kodiak Entrepreneur Talks Personal Branding

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A Kodiak resident is reaching out to other women who are entrepreneurs, artists, and independent business owners to help them create a brand for themselves. “Branding” in the modern sense is an internet phenomenon. For many small business owners, it’s vital that people can Google their names and end up on a website that will explain what they …

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Alutiiq Dancers Take Pride in Old Songs and New

Alutiiq Dancers at Celebration. Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers / Facebook Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Dancers attended an event in Juneau earlier this month called Celebration. It’s a four-day festival centered mostly on Southeast Alaska Native cultures where dance groups demonstrate their craft alongside artists of all kinds. Dance leader Candace Branson and two of her dancers sat down with KMXT’s Kayla …

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Kodiak Co-op Grocery Store to Apply for Business License

Spinach, a crop that grows well in Kodiak. Laura Ericson / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT The vision for a cooperative grocery store downtown is developing with the help of the co-ops that came before it. Merissa Koller-Williams with Healthy Tomorrows and Tyler Kornelis with the Kodiak Area Native Association are both involved in organizing the co-op and its storefront along with …

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Talk of the Rock: Bear Study in Southwest Kodiak

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with the University of Montana’s Will Deacy and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge’s Bill Leacock, who’ve been studying the bear population in southwest Kodiak for the last few years. They talk about salmon runs, bear diets, and the patterns they’ve observed in the area. Edit 6/28: The Kodiak National Wildlife …

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