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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last month Senator Lisa Murkowski announced her nominations for appointments to U.S. military service academies, which included a student from Kodiak. James Carroll was nominated by Murkowski for both the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Military Academy. Each year, Murkowski accepts applications from high school seniors for these nominations, and this year she nominated around 34 students …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Kid Wrestling program held its final tournament on Saturday, wrapping up the short season for most of the club’s younger wrestlers. Coach Kevin Lepola said those above the third grade, including middle and high school wrestlers, will keep wrestling for what is called the “extended season,” and work toward the state tournament in May. Practice for …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Going into the Northern Lights Conference championship tournament last week, the Kodiak High School Lady Bears were the odds-on favorite to come back with the championship trophy. After all, they were 22-and-0, and spent most of the season as the state’s top-ranked team. But also toting first-place hardware home were the Kodiak boys, who had been ranked second …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Part of the Kodiak Kid Wrestling season will come to a close this weekend. The club wrestling organization will host its final tournament on Saturday, and Coach Kevin Lepola said it will be the season finale for the program’s younger wrestlers. “We’ll put all the kids in age and weight brackets and let them wrestle out in kind …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The regular season came a close last week for Kodiak High School’s basketball teams. Both the boys and girls are at Colony High School this weekend for the Northern Lights Conference tournament, where they hope to earn tickets to the state championship later this month. This season the players were able to practice and compete in a recently …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT All week KMXT has been telling you about the Kodiak High School basketball teams, who recently left for the Northern Lights Conference tournament. But there is another group of young athletes heading to regions this week. KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs caught up with the KHS cheerleading team, who will be performing off island for the first time this season.

Coming up this week, millions of salmon eggs are destroyed in a Southeast hatchery fire, as fishermen start thinking about herring, we’ve got the pre-season forecast for Togiak, and you’ve heard of the Law of the Sea, well, we’ve got Fish Law, all coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help this week from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Half of Kodiak’s Juneau delegation will be in town this weekend. Representative Alan Austerman will make a trip back to the island on Saturday and hold a constituent meeting to provide an update on the legislative session so far, and answer any questions community members might have. Austerman co-chairs the house finance committee, which recently adopted a $9.149 …