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Kodiak Fifth-Graders Go Tidepooling on Woody Island

An example of crabs found while tidepooling. Photo by Andrew Schaefer / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Every year, fifth-graders in Kodiak take a boat out to Woody Island and camp in cabins there for a few days to learn about the history, birds, and wildlife of Woody Island. That includes the shelled creatures and fish that live on its beaches. Switgard …

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Afognak Native Corporation Close to Recovering All $3.8 Million Lost in Cyber-attack

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Afognak Native Corporation has nearly recovered all of the $3.826 million it lost to a cyber-fraud attack about a year ago. According to Alisha Drabek senior vice president of community and government affairs for the Afognak Native Corporation, fraudsters targeted subsidiary Alutiiq LLC and posed first as the Afognak CEO and then as attorneys through email and …

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More Data Needed on Workforce Housing Problem

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Kayla Desroches/KMXT The two city seat holders on the Planning and Zoning Commission presented to the Kodiak City Council at its work session last night and shared their knowledge and concerns about accessory dwelling units, or ADUs. Permitting ADUs would allow a property owner to house another person on their land – for instance in a space above their garage …

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Specialized Oil Spill Response Vessel Homeported in Kodiak

The Sea Strike. Photo courtesy of the Network Kayla Desroches/KMXT An oil spill response vessel called the Sea Strike is now homeported in Kodiak, gearing up to answer the need for oil spill cleanup in the Central Gulf of Alaska and Western Alaska. One of the groups behind the project says it’ll be an improvement over existing methods of containing …

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Kodiak Military History Museum Prepared to Run Park Property

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Military History Museum is preparing for a worst-case scenario in light of the state’s fiscal crisis. The museum is housed in Ft. Abercrombie State Historical Park, and while the museum is independently owned, it may close if the state parks in Kodiak do. A closure would leave the property open, but remove the upkeep and care …

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Revenue from 911 Calls Decreasing

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly received a presentation on the borough’s budgeting process at its regular meeting last week, and one emergency service isn’t bringing in as much money as it had in previous years. New borough finance director, Dora Cross, said the 911 service is funded by a levy on individual landlines with Kodiak addresses – that’s …

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Kodiak Tsunami Sirens Get Update

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The repair of waterlogged tsunami sirens in the borough of Kodiak is close to completion. Borough engineering and facilities director Bob Tucker says Kodiak received a state of Alaska legislative grant last fall to fix the alarm system. “The controls that run the sirens are in steel boxes, and the steel boxes are failing. Obviously salt water in …

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Two Marine Mammal Specialists Conduct Kodiak’s First Whale Survey of 2016

A dead gray whale floating in the ocean. Photo by Kate Wynne Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last summer, a mass die-off of at least 40 whales under unknown circumstances caused NOAA to declare an “unusual mortality event.”  Many of those whales, the majority of which were fin or humpback whales, were spotted on or around the Kodiak Archipelago. On Friday, KMXT’s Kayla …

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KIB Assembly Considers How to Protect Archaeological Sites in Chiniak During Tree Salvage

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last summer’s Twin Creeks Fire damaged many of the trees in Chiniak, but it left another kind of resource untouched: the archaeological sites buried beneath the earth. That’s one matter the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly addressed at its regular meeting last night before it accepted a timber salvage sale contract with A-1 Timber Consulting. Assemblyman Frank Peterson, formerly …

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Walk and Roll for Hope Saturday

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A walk and roll Saturday will help fundraise for Hope Community Resources, a state-wide organization dedicated to improving quality of life for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Corrie Davis, director of community support services for Hope in Kodiak, says the group offers a number of services. “We do operate a few group homes. We also do in-home …

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