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Borough Preps for Bears Showing Up Around Town

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A bountiful berry season and strong salmon runs have kept most bears out of residential areas this year, but the borough assembly is already gearing up for hungry bruins to start showing up around town. During last night’s borough work session the assembly heard from a number of key players in promoting bear awareness, including Kodiak Site Manager …

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Local Welders Featured in Latest Reality Show Premiering Tonight

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Jay Barrett/KMXT See a preview here. Dennis and Teresa Butts are the stars of the new Alaska-based reality TV show ‘Alaskan Steel Men." Discovery Channel photo Alaska is fertile ground for so-called reality television shows. There have been shows following Bering Sea crabbers, the Alaska State Troopers and the U.S. Coast Guard. Now you can add “Alaskan Steel Men” – …

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Kodiak Junior Shares Stage With Rock Band Foreigner

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week a group of Alaska high school students had the experience of a lifetime. The teens took the stage to sing with the rock band Foreigner at the Alaska State Fair. It didn’t matter that most of Foreigners hits came out well before the students were born. The 25 young vocalists littered the stage and belted out …

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The Alaska Fisheries Report

Coming up this week Mark Begich stares down Sodexo and Walmart and they both blink first. Have we mentioned pink salmon yet this summer? Because it seems they’re running pretty good. And ASMI promotes from within for its new director of international marketing. All that and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had great stories from KFSK’s …

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Tustumena May Return in October

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The ferry Tustumena is set to come back into service in October. That’s the latest word, via email, from Department of Transportation Commissioner Patrick Kemp. He said welding should be done on the vessel by the end of this week and painting, weather permitting, will happen over the weekend. From there, Kemp said the ferry will undergo three …

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Reduced Ferry Service Puts Strain On Kodiak Athletics

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT For almost a year the ferry Tustumena has been out of service for repairs, leaving much of Southwest Alaska accessible only by air. The Kennicott picked up additional sailings between Kodiak and Homer, but the impacts from reduced ferry service were still felt throughout the island. Now, as summer quickly fades into fall, classes are resuming at Kodiak …

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Assembly Reviews Fall Bear Awareness at Tonight’s Work Session

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is holding a work session tonight, with what looks like a fairly light agenda. The assembly will discuss a change order for the contract with EMC Engineering for capital construction projects oversight and inspection, and a new contract to rewrite the Kodiak Area Emergency Operations Plan. Both of those will come up for …

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Possession Limits Change for Migratory Waterfowl

Jay Barrett/KMXT Some regulations have changed for this waterfowl hunting season, with possession limits for many birds being boosted by a third. As Dan Rosenberg, Waterfowl Program Coordinator for Fish and Game in Anchorage, explains, it’s not that there are a third more birds available, but rather a change to provide more hunting opportunity. “Possession limit is viewed as more …

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