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Jay Barrett/KMXT A former finance director for the Kodiak Island Borough School District has been recognized for his work at his current job. Dave Jones, who is the assistant superintendent for instructional support for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District was named the 2012 School Business Official of the Year by the Alaska Association of School Business Officials. The award …

Steve Heimel/APRN You can add the name of NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenko to the list of top Obama administration officials not sticking around for the President’s second term. The Commerce Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere told her staff today [Wednesday] that she’ll be leaving her job early next year. Lubchenko helped lead the administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon spill …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Last Saturday’s first-ever Santa Run was grounded by some seriously bad weather. In calling off the race, organizer Joe Bailor of the Chamber of Commerce noted Saturday morning that sidewalks on Rezanof Drive were mostly unplowed, and while Mill Bay Road was plowed of snow, there was still slush and ice everywhere. That’s in addition to the sideways …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Kodiak is known for rallying around locals who need a bit of help. And local residents are also known to put on some mighty good potlucks. So what’s better than a service that allows folks to divvy up meal making to help out a family in temporary need of some good meals? Kathy Blair, a member of the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT You may have heard about this on NPR News this (Tuesday) morning. A Yale paleontologist from Kodiak has discovered a previously unidentified fossilized lizard that lived and died with the dinosaurs 65-million years ago. Monday, Nick Longrich published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that the Chicxulub asteroid collision which killed all …

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 …

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 …

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 …