Kayla Desroches

Service area boards at odds over storage space

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Two service area boards are at odds on how to split a storage space. The utility building is located on the property of the Bayside Fire Department. Currently, the borough owns the building and leases it to Fire Protection Area 1. Service Area 1 also uses the space and would like to sub-lease it from the borough, which …

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City reaches settlement on incident between Kodiak police and local autistic man

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Screen cap from video of Pletnikoff incident Kayla Desroches/KMXT The City of Kodiak has settled a lawsuit with the family of an autistic man who was pepper sprayed by a Kodiak Police officer in 2015. The Pletnikoff family first filed suit in Kodiak Superior Court against the city in 2016. Body cam footage captured the encounter between now 30-year-old Nick …

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Borough sets FY19 nonprofit funding amounts

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly approved the fiscal year 2019 nonprofit funding at its regular meeting last night. A number of community members stepped up during public comment to speak for the Kodiak Area Mentor Program, or KAMP, which is a faith-based group that serves people with issues such as addiction. The meeting packet proposed to eliminate KAMP’s …

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Kodiak home prices hold steady through recession

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Home prices in Kodiak have remained steady over the last few years despite the economic recession. That’s the finding in August’s edition of Alaska Economic Trends from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. It shows that the average price to buy a home was around $314,000 in 2015, when the recession hit the state, and about …

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Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returns to Kodiak

Cutter Alex Haley and People’s Republic of China Coast Guard crew members uncover an approximately 5.6-mile drift net onboard the fishing vessel Run Da during a joint boarding of the vessel in the North Pacific Ocean. (Photo by William Colclough / USCG) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A United States Coast Guard cutter homeported in Kodiak returned to the city Wednesday. The 282-foot …

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World Breastfeeding Week event scheduled for Kodiak

Breastfeeding baby. (Photo by myllissa / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT World Breastfeeding Week starts today and kicks off the yearly campaign for awareness about breastfeeding. According to 2016 numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 91 percent of Alaskan babies have been breastfed ever compared to the roughly 81 percent average across the United States. This is also …

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FAA investigates mishap at Kodiak launch site

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility on Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation) DayshaEaton/KMXT A spokesperson with the Federal Aviation Administration confirms: “The Astra Space, Inc. launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska at Kodiak Island on Friday, July 20 experienced a mishap.” It was an FAA-licensed launch, and the agency is reviewing the event. The launch took place …

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New director takes helm at library

Kodiak Public Library. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak Public Library has a new director. Laurie Madsen officially came on board Wednesday, July 25. “I love the space. It’s open and wonderful and the environment is one of people being inquisitive, finding new resources, asking questions.” Madsen worked for the Kodiak Island Borough School District for 25 …

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