(left to right) Student Anielys Varga, Baranov Museum curator of education Natalie Trenery, student David Castro, and Deborah Bitanga, who’s helping out on the intensive. (Photo by Kayla Dersoches / KMXT) A group of students recently created short documentaries telling the stories of how their families came to Kodiak. The Baranov Museum partnered with St. Mary’s Middle School on the …

Carrie Pigage (left) and Anda Saylor (right) painting an early 1960s Manhattan scene for the community production “It Happens Every Summer.” (Photo by Kodiak Arts Council) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Arts Council invited a father-daughter team into Kodiak this week to lead a community theater set design workshop. They conducted the class Sunday and, for the rest of this week, …

Adult Sockeye Salmon encounter a waterfall on their way up-river to spawn. (Photo by Marvina Munch / USFWS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak is gearing up to oppose what it considers a threat to its fisheries. Last year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released a study that found a percentage of Kodiak area sockeye salmon are Cook Inlet fish. Now, …

Coming up on this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report, pink salmon are doing the unexpected in some parts of the state – either popping up at unpredicted rates or in surprising places. Homer residents recently found pinks passing through the middle of town in a saltwater marsh not known for salmon returns. And also, Alaskans with an eye on the state’s …

Stacked fish crates. (Photo by Fiona Baxter / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Vessel owners will soon be able to hoist their catches with a public crane downtown. Harbormaster Lon White spoke with the Kodiak Fisheries Work Group Wednesday at its monthly meeting. He said the public crane will be the first he’s seen in the city during his 36 years in …

Jeff Murray. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Murray) Kayla Desroches/KMXT There are eight people running for the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly this year. To help our listeners get to know the candidates, KMXT will be airing profiles of them every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to the election. KMXT sat down with Jeff Murray to discuss why he wants to be …

(left to right) Elias, Eric, and Alisa. Elias snacks on an apple before going off to run track. Not shown is husband Mike, who wasn’t on the scene at the time. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT This summer, a couple returned to the City of Kodiak after roughly 10 years of sailing the world. Mike Litzow and …

KEA proposed diversion. (Courtesy of KEA) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Electric Association received a permit to start its Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project expansion, which would increase the lake’s clean energy production. Part of the project includes construction through federal land, which requires a lengthy permitting process with some steps KEA called “duplicative.” It had started on a legislative path to …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches sits down with two food cooperative specialists, Stuart Reed and Andrew Crow. They recently met with the Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative board, which is working to establish a grocery store in town. Also joining will be Renata Ballesteros, an on-the-ground agent with UAA’s Business Enterprise Institute, and Merissa Koller-Williams, who led …

Stethoscope. (Photo by jasleen_kaur / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak College, which is part of the University of Alaska Anchorage, will soon make a bachelor’s degree the go-to for aspiring nurses. In previous years, students have been able to get an associate’s degree at the college and then add classes to build up to a bachelor’s. In fall 2018, the college …