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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska The Alaska Marine Highway System has a new logo. The retro blue-and-white image includes a ferry surrounded by a circle with the system’s name, plus an orange anniversary banner. Officials say the shape is inspired by portholes of oceangoing vessels. The colors represent the ocean and waves ferries sail through. Department of Transportation spokesman Jeremy Woodrow says it’s …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is gathering for a work session tonight (Tuesday). In addition to going over the agenda for Thursday night’s regular meeting, the council has scheduled several discussions. One will be to review the downtown parking plan, and another to go over the preliminary findings of the compensation and classification study for city employees and their …