Kayla Desroches/KMXT A co-op grocery store is trying to get off the ground and will hold a kick-off event this weekend to draw members. Merissa Koller Williams is the board president for the Kodiak Harvest Cooperative, a group trying to put together a community-owned grocery store downtown. “We have to have 500 members in order to really even start negotiating …

Jack O’ Lantern. Photo by Jeanette S. / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Halloween lands on a Monday this year, but that won’t stop the community from marching the streets in their best ghoulish garb for the entire weekend. For some part of the population, the observance of Halloween tradition means a 4 p.m. stroll from door to door and outsized bags …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT AT&T subscribers may have noticed a drop in coverage, and it’s not just in Kodiak. James Mitchell Poulos is a Sales Representative with Spring Mobile, an authorized retailer, and says the store has been getting calls all morning. “Basically there’s a tower down in California that is not operational right now and it’s somehow not relaying anything to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT This week, the City Marijuana Advisory Committee planned out what recommendations it would make to the Kodiak City Council regarding marijuana regulation within city limits. One motion it considered was to allow limited cultivation licenses in rural residential lots 20,000 square feet or greater with a conditional use permit. Committee member Jonathan Strong said he didn’t support commercial …

Audience at debate. Candidates in background (left to right) Duncan Fields, Louise Stutes, Brent Watkins. Photo by Kayla Desroches Kayla Desroches/KMXT Candidates for the Alaska House of Representatives District 32 participated in the State House Debate Tuesday night. Republican incumbent Louise Stutes, Democrat Brent Watkins, and Independent Duncan Fields answered questions and tried to give voters an idea of their …

(Left to right) Duncan Fields, Louise Stutes, Brent Watkins, and moderator Cliff Davidson. Photo by Kayla Desroches Kayla Desroches/KMXT Candidates for the Alaska House of Representatives District 32 shared their views and suggested budget solutions at the State House Debate in Kodiak Tuesday night. Independent Duncan Fields, Republican incumbent Louise Stutes, and Democrat Brent Watkins sat side by side for …

Rain on window. Photo by Jerry Raia / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT The shrinking number of daylight hours combined with dropping temperatures may bring on the winter blues for some people. It may even trigger a case of seasonal depression, commonly known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD. Kodiak mental health therapist Susan Philo says what most people call SAD is …

Postcard by Shelly Lawson. Photo by Kayla Desroches Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Arts Council is giving a pen-pal twist to its next community art show. The council is asking artists to paint, draw, and otherwise creatively fill postcard-sized paper and submit them to the gallery. From there, the council will send each participant a random card in exchange for their …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council spoke in favor of adding more diversity to local governing bodies at their joint work session last week. While trading ideas between assembly and council, Assemblyman Larry LeDoux expressed a wish for better representation from different cultures. He recalled a discussion he had with a Filipino elder. “He said …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with some local professionals about the winter blues and the mood changes some people experience as the hours of daylight decrease. Mental health therapist Susan Philo and school clinician Jolene Rogers from the Providence Counseling Center drop by.