On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with members of the Coast Guard about the 75th Anniversary of the Coast Guard Reserve and one cutter’s visit to the Native Village of Port Lions.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT This is a week of many meetings for the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, who have been discussing everything from the aftermath of the fire in Chiniak to the future of its joint city and borough fisheries analyst. Wednesday the assembly will participate in a joint council and assembly work session to continue the conversation about how long to …

Armand and wife Christina Lukin-Armand. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT If there’s one thing a nonprofit needs, it’s someone to help out with finances. The Alutiiq Museum just gained a new team-member who will assist staff with that function. Russell Armand replaces Frank Peterson as Director of Operations at the museum.      Armand says he previously lived …

Coming up this week, Norton Sound’s crab fishery opened Monday after a delay due to sea ice, the Department of Fish and Game will take over many of the services that once belonged to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, and Kodiak government is split over a contract with its fisheries analyst. We had help from KNOM’s Laura Kraegel in Nome, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly had a long discussion about marijuana at its regular meeting last night. It held the first reading on an ordinance that Assemblyman Mel Stephens sponsored which would allow Kodiak to opt out of allowing marijuana businesses within the borough. Stephens explained that the federal government still considers marijuana illegal, which is why he’s …

Coach Jenny Casquejo. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Imagine standing on one leg with your hands in the air. It could be a challenge depending on your sense of balance, but I bet you could do it. Now imagine you’re five feet above the ground with other people holding you there.  Does it seem a little dangerous? Well, it is – …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A group of Kodiak students is getting ready for the University of Alaska’s Tsunami Bowl 2016. Not only will they take part in an environmental quiz show, but they’ll also present a research paper they wrote together. Switgard Dusterleoh is the coach for the Kodiak team and explains that the annual Tsunami Bowl is the qualifier for the …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, you’ll hear from students participating in the upcoming Tsunami Bowl. You’ll learn about the process, the challenges, and the benefits of this envirionmental quiz show with its academic spin.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT One local Kodiak man runs a sober living program from his home and has been helping people for 29 years. Lucien Bernard says Kodiak Lighthouse is a faith-based program which works on addiction and what’s going on inside a person’s head. “We have so much excess baggage inside of us – how we were raised and all that …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council stood apart from the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on a contract extension with their joint fisheries analyst. The fisheries analyst serves Kodiak in part by representing it at North Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings, and Heather McCarty has been under contract in the position now for two years. The original motion before both governmental …