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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …