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On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches sits down with two food cooperative specialists, Stuart Reed and Andrew Crow. They recently met with the Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative board, which is working to establish a grocery store in town. Also joining will be Renata Ballesteros, an on-the-ground agent with UAA’s Business Enterprise Institute, and Merissa Koller-Williams, who led …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, the coordinator of KANA’s Women, Infants, and Children program, Stephanie Jenkins, drops by to talk about World Breastfeeding Week. KANA communications coordinator Brian Fraley also joins to chat about some of KANA’s other programs. Mothers interested in enrolling in WIC can call the program office at (907) 486 7312.

On Saturday, Republican Senator Dan Sullivan held a town hall in the city of Kodiak and fielded questions from the public. KMXT was there at the Afognak building on Near Island to record community members’ comments and get Sullivan’s responses. For this week’s Talk of the Rock, KMXT airs part of that town hall meeting.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, we chat about nutrition and food systems with Alaska Pacific University Professor Rachael Miller, who facilitated a recent food forum here in Kodiak. We talk about everything from added sugar in processed foods to making produce more accessible and affordable on the island. Miller begins the conversation talking about the right to food and …

For mental health awareness month, Talk of the Rock host Kayla Desroches invites a couple of mental health professionals, Susan Philo and Debbie Rogers, into the studio. They discuss what help Kodiak has to offer in the way of talk therapy or more intensive assistance. They also chat about the counseling Kodiak offers its students and address therapy for domestic …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches chats with actors and tech crew from the middle school performance of Madeleine L’Engle‘s “A Wrinkle in Time.” They talk aliens, creating mood with lighting, and the books they’re reading.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with members of Kodiak’s professional garbage collecting scene about Saturday’s Community Clean-up Day. The event asks people city and borough-wide to choose a location and get rid of any trash they find there. It kicks off at 8 a.m. in the high school parking lot and continues till 2:00 p.m. …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches leads a science-themed show with Sea Grant’s Julie Matweyou talking about the multi-day Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium. Also joining are ecologist Julia Parrish, Alaska Sea Grant Director Paula Cullenberg, and Robyn Cassidy, who’s organizing the Science March on Saturday.

Kodiak will be on one of the locations in Alaska to hold a women’s march the day after inauguration. It’ll be one of the “sister marches” of the D.C. based Women’s March on Washington. On this week’s Talk of the Rock, local organizers join to talk about the non-partisan, all-inclusive event, and how they hope it will set a positive …

Coming up on Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with the staff of the new Alutiiq language immersion preschool which will be opening in Kodiak next month. They’ll talk about what to expect and how the preschool plays into the larger Alutiiq language scene.