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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Students at the Kodiak High School and Middle School dabbled in theatric storytelling last week. A handful of classrooms participated in a two week artist in schools program that culminated with a presentation of their work on Thursday. KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs attended the performance and filed this report. It’s about 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon and the foyer …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Today is community clean up day on the Coast Guard base and tomorrow the event will spread onto the borough road system. The event, which is held annually, is the borough’s push to encourage citizens to spruce up the island and properly dispose of items around their house and community. Unlike past years, the borough will not provide …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A contract for legal services associated with the sale of revenue bonds for the new long term care facility failed to get borough assembly approval last night. During a regular meeting the assembly voted 3-2 against the contract with the attorney firm of Wohlforth Brecht Cartledge and Brooking. The firm has provided the borough with past bond counsel …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A video recording that went viral earlier this week has prompted an internal investigation by the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The 11-minute video was posted on YouTube Monday afternoon in Kodiak and shows a woman thrown to the ground by an Alaska State Trooper before being arrested. Alaska State Trooper Brian Mitchell is one of the two …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak landfill is quickly filling up, but the borough has had an expansion plan in the works for some time. But as Borough Manager Bud Cassidy explains, the landfill isn’t simply a hole in the ground. This means expanding the area, or even closing out the old space, is a huge undertaking. “Everything about the landfill, it’s …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak has deployed an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and support personnel to Cordova. The temporary deployment is in preparation for the upcoming Copper River Red and King fisheries in Prince William Sound and Southcentral Alaska. Those fisheries are set to open in a few weeks and the increased number of fishing vessels that will …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will meet tonight for a regular meeting and discuss a rezoning ordinance and approve a number of contracts. First up on the agenda is an ordinance that would rezone a plot of land in Chiniak from public use to residential. This will be the second reading of the ordinance and a public hearing …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The deadline to have studded tires removed from vehicles has been extended. The original deadline was April 15, but an emergency order last month extended that deadline to May 1. Another emergency order came through the Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner’s Office this week to extend the deadline even further, this time to May 15. As winter …