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Jay Barrett/KMXT There’s a limited sports schedule this weekend for Kodiak High School athletes, comprised of a pair of cross country races and a home football game. The Bears will welcome the Colony Knights to the Fort Abercrombie trail this evening, with the girls racing at 5 p.m. and the boys at 5:45. Tomorrow at 9 a.m., the two schools …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The reductions in halibut bycatch passed by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council last year have been codified and NOAA is looking for some input. “Amendment 95,” as it’s called, would implement bycatch reductions in both hook-and-line and trawl fisheries, according to Obren Davis, a fisheries management specialist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Juneau: “In June …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak Area Native Association is opening its doors to a new kind of client these days. The organization, which typically only provides services to Alaska Natives and Native Americans, recently added veterans to its clientele. Rick Epperson is the Rural Health Program Manager for Alaska Veterans Affairs and said the service expansion is the result of a sharing …

Coming up this week, Southeast fishermen get extra time to target coho this month, NOAA wants your feedback on Amendment 95, we’ve got a review of this summer’s Yukon fisheries, and the backlash over a cartoon, all on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had stories from KYUK’s Angela Denning-Barnes in Bethel, and KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A new class offered at Kodiak College will give students a chance to blur the line between their left and right brains. Switgard Deusterloh will teach this fall’s introduction to marine science through experiments and art, a new class that pairs her two passions: science and art. Deusterloh spoke on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock on Tuesday and …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Each day this week KMXT took a closer look at the Kodiak Island Borough’s capital improvement projects priority list, focusing on a few of the eight items each day. Tonight that list will be before the Borough Assembly as a resolution and they will vote on whether or not to submit it to Governor Sean Parnell and the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Before the Alaska State ferry Tustumena can be put back into the water on Friday, it must again pass U.S. Coast Guard inspections. Inadequate material and poor workmanship have caused several months of delays in the Tusty’s return to service. Dan Buchsbaum is the chief of inspections for the Coast Guard’s Sector Anchorage office. He said the Coast …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly narrowed down its state legislative capital improvement projects priority list for the 2014 legislative session. From a pool of about 16 projects, the assembly, with the help of Borough lobbyist Mark Hickey and Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman, narrowed its list down to eight tentative items. All week KMXT has been taking …