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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Baranov Museum is slated for some changes in the coming year. Katie Oliver is the executive director for the museum and joined KMXT’s Talk of the Rock on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming exhibit redesign. “Well this is a project that we’ve been talking about for several years, but we wanted to finish up a lot of …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council got one step closer to finalizing the state legislative priorities Tuesday night during its work session. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski said four projects have made the priority list, but one project may show up later depending on how elections go in November. Currently, Monashka Bay pump house improvements are first on the list. Kniaziowski …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council will hold a regular meeting tonight (Thursday) in the borough assembly chambers. On the agenda is a vote on the prioritized state capital improvements program list. The city will also vote on accepting the compensation and classification report detailing how competitive city salaries are with similar jobs across the nation. The Kodiak Island Borough …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There were noticeably fewer foreign students working in Alaska salmon processing facilities this past season. That’s because of uncertainty that surrounded the student guest worker program known as the J-1 Visa. The state department had threatened to end the program abruptly during the months leading up to the salmon season, which did not give processors enough lead time …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council met for a work session last night and talked at length about the proposed bike path from downtown Kodiak to Deadman’s Curve. The project received legislative funding in 2011 for $384,000 that would match a city contribution, but this was when the estimated cost of the project was somewhere around $2.9 million. City Manager …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Between her role as language manager at the Alutiiq Museum and as assistant professor of Alutiiq language and culture at Kodiak College, April Laktonen Counceller is very busy. Now she can add another title to her list as a newly appointed member of the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council. It was created by Governor Sean Parnell, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The resident registration hunt for mountain goats in two areas on Kodiak Island have been closed by emergency order – even before they start. Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele issued the order Tuesday, closing the Crown Mountain and the Hidden Basin-East Terror Lake areas. The closure was implemented because four goats have been taken in each …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak medevac’d a diver from a 48-foot fishing vessel in Alitak (AL-attack) Bay late last (Monday) night. The unidentified 24-year-old was suffering from shortness of breath and was in and out of consciousness when he was lifted from the fishing vessel Patricia Kay at about 10:30 p.m. The crewman reportedly …