Jay Barrett/KMXT Monday night more than 200 people showed up at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium for a town hall meeting organized by the U.S. Coast Guard as a response to last week’s double homicide at the Communications Station. In addition to Coast Guard officers, there were police, city, school district and mental health professionals on stage. Base Support Unit …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa Program was established 50 years ago and initially was used to bring academics to the United States to conduct research or to teach. The program was intended to foster cultural exchange and eventually expanded to include au pairs, educators, medical professionals and participants in the Work and Travel USA program. After hundreds of …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Ninety-seven libraries across the state are being equipped with video teleconferencing equipment. For some rural libraries the grant-funded equipment comes with super fast broadband internet. The Chiniak library held an open house on Saturday to celebrate the new technology which is paid for with an Online With Libraries grant funded by the state, the Rasmuson Foundation, the Bill …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak City Council held its regular meeting last night.Here are a the highlights: The council passed a resolution that will put on this year’s election ballot a proposition that allows newly elected council members to begin their term the first Monday following an election. Last October, after council members Terry Haines and Randall Bishop were elected, the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Fishing vessel owners have just over eight months to get familiar with the new rules of the observer program. NOAA Fisheries has used the program since 1972 to collect data for use in bycatch reduction, stock assessment, protecting certain species, gear research and regulations compliance. Martin Loefflad is the director of the Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division for …

Files of census information housed at the Baranov Museum. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT After the required 72-year wait, the National Archives has released data from the 1940 census. The records were made available online last week and have been so popular that the site often crashes. Census data inspires endless hours of research for history buffs like Anjuli Grantham …

Timothy Geer chats with a passenger from the Crystal Serenity. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT KMXT’s Jennifer Canfield headed downtown to the water dock at the end of the spit where the Port of Kodiak’s Timothy Geer greets passengers as they set foot on Kodiak Island. You can find this year’s cruise ship schedule here.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guests are Kate Wynne who is a marine mammal specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center and Stacey Studebaker, the project coordinator for the Kodiak Gray Whale Project. We’ll be talking about Whale Fest and more. Here’s a short video of Stacey’s experience petting gray whales in Mexico. {youtube}UTT1igD7nsg{/youtube}

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guests are Kate Wynne who is a marine mammal specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center and Stacey Studebaker, the project coordinator for the Kodiak Gray Whale Project. We’ll be talking about Whale Fest and more. Here’s a short video of Stacey’s experience petting gray whales in Mexico. {youtube}UTT1igD7nsg{/youtube}

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak High School’s baseball team is six weeks into their two month pre-season. KMXT’s Jennifer Canfield visited the team at practice yesterday and produced this postcard. She spoke with Alec Eastman, a senior on the varsity team. Eastman has played baseball for close to 10 years but this year just found a new favorite sport. The Bears baseball …