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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak’s skate park users can expect some new equipment in the weeks to come. Jeremiah Gardner is the owner of the bike shop 58 Degrees North and said, if all goes according to plan, a new 24-foot wide halfpipe should be installed sometime next month. “We’re waiting on the skatelite to get shipped up from the lower 48, …

Fish and Game intern Axl LeVan steadies a net while Weir Tech Myra Scholze moves a king salmon into a brood tube held by KRAA intern Heather Sadusky. The fish are transported to the larger hatchery raceway in the brood tubes before eggs are collected in August. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photo Brianna Gibbs /KMXT For about ten years, the Kodiak Regional …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The four bear cub siblings in Old Harbor that were orphaned when their mother had to be put down as a nuisance dump bear, haven’t been seen in a week. Fish and Game Regional Wildlife Supervisor Larry Van Daele, who had organized a rescue mission for the quadruplets, says they haven’t been spotted since last Tuesday. That was …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A couple of weeks ago the pink salmon run started showing its numerical superiority around Kodiak Island and surpassed the sockeye salmon catch. And over the weekend, pinks more than doubled reds in number harvested. The humpy catch on Sunday alone was 723,621, bringing the season total to 4.1-million. Kodiak commercial fisheries management biologist James Jackson said pinks …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Poor workmanship and subpar materials being used in the repair of the Alaska State Ferry Tustumena have once again delayed its return to service. At this point, according to Marine Highway spokesman Jeremy Woodrow, there’s no telling how long this latest delay will keep the Tusty from going back in the water: “Right now we don’t have a …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council passed the first reading of an ordinance that would keep the city sales tax at 7 percent. During its regular meeting on Thursday, the council unanimously passed the ordinance, which eliminates a sunset provision that would lower the sales tax on Dec. 31. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said the city first adopted the sales …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum has a sizeable grant heading its way. Earlier this month it received word that Alaska’s Rasmuson Foundation awarded it $127,867 to replace outdated climate control systems. Facilities at the museum are almost two decades old, and Museum Interim Director Katie St. John said in a press release that they have been struggling to keep the …

A red tide at Mayflower Beach Sunday afternoon. It’s not the Red Tide, which causes Paralitic Shellfish Poisoning, but rather a harmless dinoflagellate (marine plankton). KMXT had a story about this summer’s red tides last week. Willy Bethea/KMXT photo