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Assembly Seemingly Split on School Funding

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last month the Board of Education passed a $48.7 million budget, which included a $10.6 million funding request from the borough. That’s the state-allowed maximum, and the borough has only been funding about 96 percent of it in recent years. During a joint work session with the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly in April, School Board President Melissa Borton …

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The Alaska Fisheries Report With Jay Barrett

Coming up this, we look westward for our fishy news. In Togiak, the only thing missing is the herring, while just around the corner there’s renewed interest in Kuskokwim Bay herring. Fishermen in Quinhagak are doing their part to preserve the might king salmon, and a small processor in Unalaska is going world-wide. It was made possible with the contributions …

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Kodiak Inspires New Survival Bracelet

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Alaska has a long history of inspiring the rest world. Books and films have been written about the Last Frontier and more recently a slew of television shows boasting tremendous success have depicted various aspects of the state. Companies have marketed products around their performance in the Alaska wilderness, and others have simply branded them with an Alaskan …

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State Seeks Public Comments on Proposed Navy SEAL Trainings

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Navy SEAL training could expand on Kodiak Island. The state is currently taking public comment through the end of May on a permit application to use state-owned lands as part of a U.S. Navy winter weather training program. Clark Cox is a natural resource manager for the State Department of Natural Resources and said the Navy didn’t provide …

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Baranov Museum Hires Executive Director

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT For the past five months Tiffany Brunson has been serving as the interim executive director for the Baranov Museum, but now she can finally drop one of the words in her job title. Brunson has officially been hired as the executive director and began working in that capacity on May 1. “I’m really actually honored to get this …

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Postmaster Leaves Kodiak for Warmer Climates

Jay Barrett/KMXT Despite both being islands with decent surfing, there’s not much that Puerto Rico and Kodiak have in common. Both, however, do have U.S. Post Offices and need postmasters. And in this case, Cabo Rojo’s gain will be Kodiak’s loss, as Postmaster Bill Kersh leaves here for there next month. Kersh, who’s been postmaster in Kodiak for about seven …

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