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Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s volleyball team is the champion of the Northern Lights Conference, and will be heading to the Class 4A state volleyball tournament later this week. The Bears had to make their way through the losers’ bracket after falling to Palmer in five games on Friday. After dispatching Colony in three games, Kodiak had to beat Palmer twice for …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Frustrations between the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the design and engineering firm CH2M HILL continue to mount. “I’m getting to the point where I’m tired of approving change orders for a company that I really honestly just don’t trust anymore.” That’s Assemblyman Aaron Griffin expressing his frustration over the most recent hiccup in CH2M HILL’s work for …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Work on the long awaited new dock in Anton Larsen Bay should begin in the near future. On Thursday the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted for Jensen Yorba Lott to begin architectural and engineering services for pre design work on the dock replacement project. Thursday’s 5-2 vote wasn’t without a bit of disagreement, though not over the actual …

Casey Kelly/KTOO and The AP Alaska’s Filipino community is pulling together to help the victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the country early Friday morning. Thousands are feared dead and injured from the storm, one of the most powerful ever recorded. The storm knocked out power and communications to much of the central Philippines, and Filipino expatriates in Alaska …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Bayside Fire Training Center is getting a new name. Last night the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted unanimously in favor of renaming the center to the Earl Smith Jr. Memorial Fire Training Center. Earl Smith Jr. was the first fire chief at Bayside in 1983, and, according to a borough resolution, was instrumental in recruiting and training …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Even Edgar Allan Poe’s most adoring Kodiak fans couldn’t hold candle to Dr. Jerry Kennedy. Kennedy, who is a Boyd professor at Louisiana State University, has published seven books about Poe, and has an interest in the gothic writer that spans back decades. “Back in graduate school for sure. And then wrote a dissertation. And have been working …

Coming up this week, the sportsfishing guide industry on the Kenai wants to ban commercial setnet fishing in Cook Inlet; we have a couple of items about the Marine Stewardship Council, and a new face, but a familiar name at the helm of Trident Seafoods. We had help this week from KCHU’s Tony Gorman in Valdez, and KDLG’s Mike Mason …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A group of aspiring cannery bosses from all over the state was in town this past week. The group of 15 mid-career professionals took part in the eight-day Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center on Near Island. The week featured workshops, demonstrations and specific trainings, and was sponsored by the Alaska …