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Locavores Celebrate the Season with Potluck

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Folks line up at the local foods potluck held Wednesday night. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photo Brianna Gibbs/KMXT More than 100 community members gathered last night at the Kodiak High School commons for a potluck dinner celebrating local agriculture. Goers filled their plates with locally harvested salmon, organically grown vegetables, big game chili and other samplings of more than a dozen local …

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Seafood Still Alaska’s Top Export

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A small gathering of staff from the Chamber of Commerce learned about the value of Alaska’s exports during lunch at the Harbor Room of the Kodiak Inn. Greg Wolf is the executive Director for World Trade Center Alaska and said last year Alaska earned $5.2 billion from worldwide exports. He said the dollar amount ranks Alaska 40th among …

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Air Station Kodiak Jayhawk Hoists Ailing Man from Trawler

Jay Barrett/KMXT An Air Station Kodiak helicopter crew spent some long hours in transit to hoist a 43-year-old man from a factory trawler in the Bering Sea Wednesday. The ailing man aboard the 255-foot Alaska Juris was suffering from heart attack symptoms, which were reported to the Coast Guard at about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was …

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Two New Books Soon to be Published by Alutiiq Museum

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository will dabble into literary works this fall when it plans to sell two different books that celebrate Alutiiq culture and heritage. The first book is a hefty catalog of Alutiiq artifacts. Sven Haakanson is the executive director of the Alutiiq Museum and said the book was a collaborative project with another museum …

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Council Not Standing Still on Parking Issue

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council will take a more comprehensive look at parking downtown in meetings to come. The council heard from Police Chief T.C. Kamai during last night’s work session about the lack of long term parking near the downtown “mall.” “Now I think if you study this slide real closely, you’ll see, you’ll come to the same …

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State School Board Meeting in Kodiak

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State Board of Education Chairman Jim Merriner Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development is holding its September meeting here in Kodiak, starting today. Chairman Jim Merriner will ring in the proceedings this morning at 8 a.m., over in the borough assembly chambers. It is open to the public. The first item on the agenda is …

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Base Remembers Sept. 11

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Coast Guard police officers Joe Lovette and Rachel Ranstead raise the POW MIA flag and Coast Guard ensign while Coast Guard fire fighters Luke Nymeyer and Patrick Callahan raise the National Ensign and firefighter Daniel Smith renders honors for morning colors in front of assembled Coast Guardsmen at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska, in observance of Sept. 11, Tuesday, Sept. …

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Stevens Tours Tundra Runways – Finds Some ‘Shocking’

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens got a look at a part of the state that will be in his district if he wins re-election this fall – communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta outside Bethel. Stevens says he wasn’t on a campaign swing, though, saying he went there at the invitation of the Alaska Department of Transportation. “I was checking …

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