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Council Agenda Full for Work Session

Jay Barrett/KMXT Expect a crowd tonight when the Kodiak City Council holds its work session in the cozy confines of the borough building conference room. On the agenda there’s one hot-button topic – the sludge composting project – as well as interviews with advisory board applicants, and a report about the need to find a new way to deal with …

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Snow Dumping in Channel to be Reduced

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Snow dumped from a dedicated pier on the spit may be ending. KMXT file photo Jay Barrett/KMXT The City of Kodiak has long disposed of snow in the streets by dumping it off a short pier at the end of the spit, but that practice will be changing in the future and may cost the city substantially more money. Public …

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Change in Plastic Recycling Coming to Threshold

Jay Barrett/KMXT As we mentioned last week, Kodiak’s recycling center, Threshold Services, has plans for expansion. A large drive-through structure will be put up at the back of the building on Von Sheele Way. And though it’s a little behind schedule, Threshold Executive Director Ken Reinke says it is coming along, and should be open in the spring. Once it …

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Bear Harvest Down in Fall Season

Maggie Wall/KMXT Fewer Kodiak brown bears were taken during the fall hunting season than in previous years, a situation that is being attributed to a cold fall that sent a lot of bears to den early. The fall bear season runs Oct. 25 to Nov. 30. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game records, 59 bears were taken in …

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Santas on the Run

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce is putting on its first “Santa Run” tomorrow (Saturday). It’s a 5-kilometer fun run, with, as the chamber’s Joe Bailor says, a holiday twist. He encourages participants to dress up as Santa, Mrs. Claus, elves, reindeer or any other Christmas character and come out and run for charity. The $10 suggested donation will …

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Variance Debate Highlights Cannery Row Parking Problem

Maggie Wall/KMXT The problem of parking downtown near the processing plants took up much of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s time during last night’s regular meeting. The assembly sat as a Board of Adjustment in an appeal of a recent planning and zoning commission decision to deny a local seafood processor a variance to have fewer parking spots than required …

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A Primer on the Open Meetings Act

Maggie Wall/KMXT If you were listening to last night’s broadcast of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting you may have heard a procedure that was out of the ordinary. During the appeal regarding parking at the Pacific Seafoods plant on Shelikof Street, the assembly moved to adjourn into a closed session to consider its decision. The motion, however, failed. Alaska’s …

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Cannery Row Parking on Assembly Agenda

Maggie Wall/KMXT Meeting Packet, including Agenda The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will sit as a board of adjustment on a request for fewer off-street parking spots during tonight’s regular meeting. John Whiddon, representing Pacific Seafoods is appealing a September ruling by the planning and zoning commission that denied a variance to require fewer parking spots associated with the processor which …

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