Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Governor Sean Parnell released his budget for 2013 today. The $12.1 billion dollar budget is $600 million less than last year. Proposed spending for Kodiak and surrounding areas totals just over $41 million. Included is just over $3 million for phase two of the Kodiak Island Borough landfill lateral expansion. Borough Mayor Jerome Selby is hopeful the project …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Halfway through his junior year in college, local running star Trevor Dunbar has decided to transfer from the University of Portland to the University of Oregon. —          (Dunbar 1                   :15                   “Started thinking about it last spring really when I was hitting a plateau, I guess. I really started seriously considering it this summer when I had some time …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Two public hearings are scheduled for tonight’s regular meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly; one on a proposed rezoning along Spruce Cape Road, the other is on a package of mid-year updates to the borough’s budget.

Maggie Wall/KMXT Tuesday evening the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the public got an update on the Kodiak High School renovation and upgrade project, which is moving right along.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Middle School orchestra, band and choir held their winter concert last night to a standing-room only crowd at the Gerald C. Wilson auditorium. Here are some sounds from the performance.

Maggie Wall/KMXT Kodiak sports fishermen have until Jan. 13 to comment on the state’s fish stocking plan that determines stocking efforts on local lakes and rivers.The plan remains largely the same, though there are a few changes among local waters. The state’s fish stocking plan, which includes the stocking of Kodiak’s local lakes and rivers, is open for public comments. …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak resident Aaron Silva passed away last Wednesday. The 15-year-old succumbed to the cancer he’d been diagnosed with last May. His mother, Gaby Alvarez, says that her son was very aware during his final days.

Jay Barret/KMXT A former Kodiak biologist who has continued to work on fisheries projects here even after moving away, may have found a method that could help fisheries managers predict stock collapses before they happen. Mike Litzow, who sailed with his family to Australia four years ago, says the research he’s been a part of indicates a pattern of instability …

Times for the Total Lunar Eclipse in various time zones. It will be visible in Kodiak, weather permitting, early Saturday morning. Alaska times are in the AST column.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT At last night’s work session the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly discussed an amendment to the 2012 budget that would allow for a $500,000 contribution from the borough to the Baranof Park improvements project. Meanwhile, the Kodiak City Council was meeting upstairs. The council appointed Santa Claus as head of the Department of Holiday Celebration. A brief investigation by …