Members of the community at the DOWL presentation. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The City of Kodiak together with its facilitator, DOWL engineering, solicited public comment on its Near Island Development Plan last night at a public presentation. DOWL senior planner Michelle Ritter said the kickoff event will be the first opportunity for DOWL to hear and incorporate public input. A …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The City of Kodiak is planning an update to the Near Island Development Plan and the engineering company on the project will hold a meeting tonight to hear public feedback. Michelle Ritter, a Senior Planner with DOWL in Anchorage, says the plan identifies areas for development. “It was a little open ended, so it will be kind of …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Baranov Museum is closed starting in February, but the staff remains active. Tiffany Brunson, the executive director of the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum, says the museum closes during the same month every year and has been doing so for at least a decade. “We generally do it just because attendance really slows down in the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Historical Commission will now have a representative from Kodiak to help form policy when it comes to Alaska’s history.   Alisha Drabek is the Senior Vice President of Community and Government Affairs at the Afognak Native Corporation, and Governor Bill Walker recently appointed her to fill the indigenous seat on the Alaska Historical Commission after the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT United States Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska stood before the Senate Tuesday and spoke in favor of hydropower as an energy resource. The talk was part of Murkowski’s representation of a bipartisan bill, called the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which according to Murkowski is the first energy bill the Senate has debated in more than eight years. Murkowski …

Octopus suncatcher by Bradshaw. Photo courtesy of Bradshaw and Woven Time Kayla Desroches/KMXT One featured artist on the First Friday Art Walk crafts marine creatures out of glass – orange octopuses with dotted white suckers along curled limbs, green trout with brown stripes along their sides, and blue and yellow tuna. Those are just some of the suncatcher designs by …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, you’ll listen to the question and answer portion of a presentation on the budding marijuana industry in Alaska.  Last week, the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage and Marijuana Control Boards, Cynthia Franklin, dropped by Kodiak to give the Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly an update on the marijuana control board and …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT With some careful planning, you may fit all of this month’s First Friday Art Walk events into one night. What’s the first step in achieving that goal? Making sure you can leave your workplace or classroom by 5 o’clock. That’s when Kodiak Art Council program coordinator, Erin Starr-Hollow, says exhibits open. “We have the altered book art show …

From left to right, Diane Kaplan, Pat Pitney, and Greg Chapados. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Members of the community gathered in the Kodiak convention center Saturday to hear a community presentation on the state’s fiscal crisis. Various local groups organized the event, including Koniag and the City of Kodiak, and speakers came to educate the crowd on current economic issues and the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Local organizations and governing bodies including Koniag and the City of Kodiak will hold a State of the Alaska State Budget community presentation Saturday. Guest speakers will talk about the state’s fiscal crisis and the options ahead. Stacy Simmons, the office director for Koniag Incorporated, says Governor Walker met with Alaska Native leadership when he visited Kodiak to …