Recent News

Former KFL Player Walks On at Running Back for Ducks

Jay Barrett/KMXT The University of Oregon Ducks football team has a new running backing, and he hails from Kodiak – sort of. Bill Chimphalee, now a junior walk-on for the Ducks squad, was a star running back for the Kenai Central High School Kardinals, and has been playing for Orange Coast College in California. However, he started his football career …

Read More »

Kodiak Salmon Catch Nearing 10-Million

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak commercial salmon harvest is heading north of 10-million. After Sunday’s catch of 600,000 – 584,000 of them pinks – the all-season figure was at 9,814,454 fish, with humpies accounting for 7.3-million of them. Saturday saw more than a half-million pinks delivered, and over 713,000 were caught on Friday. Sockeye are still arriving in surges. Sunday it …

Read More »

Dawson, Dirty Squirrels Take Top Spots in Kodiak Quintathlon

2012_quintathlon_results 52.38 Kb Jay Barrett/KMXT Though turnout was light for the 2012 Quintathlon, the Kodiak High School cross-country program raised over $3,000, according to coach Marcus Dunbar. The coach said Coast Guard Day activities, the weather and the lure of the Olympic games on TV may have kept some participants away, but seven teams and two individuals competed in the …

Read More »

Police Seek Public’s Help in Solving Arson

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last Wednesday, the ice rink at Baranof Park went up in flames, severely damaging the interior of the rink and south facing wall. The Kodiak Police Department is still investigating the fire, which was determined to be an act of arson, but is asking community members to help in the process. Someone out there knows who did this, …

Read More »

Kodiak Island Brewery Opens Spacious New Location

brewery-wall.jpg

A life-size photograph of the old Moser Bay Cannery by Alf Pryor adorns two walls at the new location of the Kodiak Island Brewing Co. Jay Barrett/KMXT photo Jay Barrett/KMXT The doors opened Thursday afternoon on the new location of the Kodiak Island Brewing Company at the Y downtown. Owner Ben Millstein said it was a little bit of a …

Read More »

Targeted Tubes Track Tangible Traffic Tally

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Motorists may have noticed some unusual black hoses running across sections of the Kodiak road system. Howard Helkenn works for the State of Alaska Department of Transportation as the highway data manager for central region. He said the lines were put on various parts of the road to track traffic.

Read More »

Kodiak Bears Start Season vs. West Anchorage JV

Jay Barrett/KMXT High school football practice just started on Monday, but given the short season, teams aren’t wasting any time getting on the gridiron. The Kodiak High School Bears will see action at 1 p.m. on August 10th, against the West Anchorage JV team in a non-division game. Since the new field surface at Baranof Park is still being installed, …

Read More »

A Silver Horde Bears Down on Monashka Bay

salmon-coho-fish-oncorhynchus-kisutch_w725_h365.jpg

Jay Barrett/KMXT Attention Kodiak sport fishermen: There are thousands of coho salmon headed toward Monashka Bay, and the Silver Horde could start showing up soon. "We hope that it may be a giant horde of fish," says Kodiak sportsfish biologist Donn Tracy. "The adult coho salmon returning to Monashka Bay this year from the 2011 smolt releases were just about …

Read More »