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Coming up this week, the salmon season near Juneau is shorter than it used to be; It’s a long time until herring season, but the forecast is out for Togiak; and trouble between China and Norway could turn into more salmon sales for Alaska. All that, and what is your scariest fishing story. We had help this week from KTOO’s …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Early Tuesday morning Scott Wilburn and his wife received a call that no business owner ever wants to get. It came from the Kodiak Police Department and said officers were outside his business, Bay Bounce, on Mill Bay Road. When he arrived he found that vandals had broken in. Bay Bounce is an inflatable playground, popular with young …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak City Council signed a five year contract with Quayanna Development Corporation to turn city bio solids into usable compost at a facility in Middle Bay. However, those plans were clouded during a joint work session between the city council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Tuesday night. “I’m not going to let you bring it …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Northern Lights Conference Volleyball Championships are being held in Kodiak this week. Play starts Thursday afternoon and runs through Saturday afternoon. Day One matchups have number four seed Kodiak playing Wasilla at 1 p.m., and Colony facing Kenai at 3. Palmer and Soldotna, the first- and second-seeds respectively, get first-round byes and will play the winner of …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The last time we heard from Senate District R candidate Robert Henrich, he was just starting the summer fishing season out of his home of Cordova. Turns out it was a pretty good season for him, and he’s done a little campaigning since fishing wrapped up. The Democrat is hoping to make his way to Kodiak this week, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There was volcanic ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight and parts of Kodiak Island yesterday. A person in Port Lions called KMXT to ask if a volcano had erupted, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory showed all was normal. However, it turned out that a volcano had erupted, though it wasn’t yesterday – it was almost exactly …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Travis Tennessen didn’t have a typical childhood. His adolescent years were split between the lush orchards of Wisconsin and the mountainous terrain of Kodiak Island. Unlike most seasonal residents of Alaska’s emerald isle, Tennessen and his family didn’t flock to the archipelago during the bountiful summer months, but rather the cold, dark days of January. Tennessen’s parents taught …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Halloween is considered a time for costumes, trick-or-treating and ghost stories. While Kodiak residents can get their fix of the first two in most areas of town this evening, the Baranov Museum’s Curator of Collections, Anjuli Grantham, stepped in to help with the latter.