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Marine Highway Cuts Programs to Tighten Belt

Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska Say so long to summer drivers riding the ferry for free. Wave goodbye to the winter roundtrip discount. And printed schedules? Those are on their way out too. Those changes won’t happen for a while. But they are just some of the ways the Alaska Marine Highway will address a $3.5-million spending cut mandated by the Legislature. Ferry …

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Community Raises Downtown Loitering Concerns at Council Meeting

Jay Barrett/KMXT Though it is a problem year-round, homeless people in Kodiak spend more time outdoors as the weather warms up. That was the complaint of Lisa Zeimer at Thursday’s Kodiak City Council meeting. Judi Kidder, part of the volunteer Project Kodiak Clean Up organization, agreed with Zeimer, saying the things left behind by downtown transients is troublesome. Mayor Pat …

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Middle Schoolers Raise Funds for School in Mali

Marina Cummiskey/KMXT Students at Kodiak Middle School have been fundraising for another middle school in Mali, West Africa. The students raised $1,000 – the amount needed to provide electricity at the school in Mali. Students in both countries made an attempt to communicate using Skype early Friday morning. KMXT’s Marina Cummiskey was there and filed this report. It’s 7:30 a.m. …

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Special Olympics Torch Run Preview

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This weekend, law enforcement officers and community members in towns throughout Alaska will partake in a 5k run and walk as part of the law enforcement torch run for Special Olympics. The race has a long history, both in Alaska and across the nation. “In the late 1970s the torch run actually started here in Alaska, although it’s …

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Study Finds Borough Salaries Competetive With Market

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A new study found that Kodiak Island Borough salaries are competitive with other boroughs across the state, and with similar-sized towns in the Pacific Northwest. Lori Messer is a Senior Consultant for Fox Lawson and Associates, the company that conducted the compensation and classification study for the borough. Messer presented the findings of the borough’s study during a …

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Bears Take 8th Straight Track and Field Title

Jay Barrett/KMXT The perennially strong Kodiak boys track and field team wrapped up its eighth straight Region III championship over the weekend in Nikiski. The Bears finished with 168 team points, easily outdistancing runner-up Colony’s 123. Soldotna was third, foll0wed by Wasilla, Kenai, and Palmer. Kodiak was led by sophomore Levi Thomet, who took four titles – three individual and …

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Cutter Munro Captain Cawthorn Retires

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT In June, the captain of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro will retire after 27 years in active duty. KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs had a conversation with Captain Mark Cawthorn last week and learned about his two years serving at the helm of the Kodiak-based cutter Munro. While the majority of Captain Cawthorn’s career was spent on the East …

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AMCC Bring Crab Back to the Fest

Jay Barrett/KMXT It looks like there’s no need to go changing the name of next week’s celebration to Bruin Burger Fest, thanks to the Alaska Marine Conservation Council. The group will be providing local Kodiak Tanner crab for at least one event during Kodiak Crab Festival. Kelly Harrell, the group’s executive director says in an over the weekend that AMCC …

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