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Jay Barrett/KMXT A Kodiak man has been appointed by the governor to a seat on the State Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Jimmy Ng has been heavily involved with local health care since retiring from the U.S. Coast Guard in 2002. He works as the director of mission and spiritual care for Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Island Borough School District students recently got a couple unique opportunities to conduct cultural exchanges with indigenous students on the other side of the world. Though the Aborigines in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, and the Alutiiq in Kodiak have existed separately for tens of thousands of years, several classes met for the first time using …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will vote on a temporary solution to the bio solids issue tonight during a special meeting. The Kodiak Island Borough landfill stopped accepting city sewage sludge on December 15 and the borough and city have been working diligently to find a new disposal method. The sludge has been accumulating since that date and …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The body of a Coast Guardsmen missing since Saturday was recovered yesterday (Monday) on Barometer Mountain. Alaska State Troopers led the search for 20-year-old Derek Russell who was last seen on Saturday when he reportedly told friends he was going to hike Barometer. Russell was reported missing Sunday night around 6 p.m. Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking new recruits and putting Alaskans on the top of its search list. Sara Francis is the spokeswoman for Air Station Kodiak and said the Coast Guard has always been open to enlistment from all over the U.S., but future expansion has led recruiters to look to the last frontier for its next …

The AP The body of a Kodiak Coast Guardsman from Maine who went missing while hiking Saturday has been recovered. Officials say 20-year-old Derek Winn Russell’s body was found Tuesday on Barometer Mountain, about 1,000 feet below where skid marks in the snow and his ice ax were found at the 2,200-foot level. Russell was last seen at about 10 …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is one vote away from temporarily solving the bio solid issue for the City of Kodiak. During last night’s regular meeting the assembly unanimously voted in favor of the ordinance that would allow the city to turn the sludge into class B compost at the borough landfill. Mike Patterson is the environmental director …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Officials were forced to euthanize an abandoned Kodiak brown bear cub Wednesday, after determining it was too malnourished to survive much longer on its own. A photograph of the bear wandering through the Coast Guard base was widely circulated on Facebook this week. Kodiak Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele said he’s been keeping tabs on the …