The first of three new Coast Guard fast response cutters to be homeported in Kodiak is officially ready for duty, after the commissioning ceremony last week on April 3 for the John Witherspoon at Coast Guard Base Kodiak.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about the Tustumena returning after its annual winter repairs, shakeups in federal agencies could change how weather data from buoys works, Flying Geese, a longtime fabric store, is closing, the Alaska Food Policy Council held its statewide food festival and conference, and Kodiak Harvest Food Coop has grown significantly in less than a decade.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock with host Davis Hovey, the head of Kodiak Electric Association discusses the upcoming election, which features a potential bylaw change that will be in the packet for members to vote on next month.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Theo Greenly reports on "unprecedented" measures from Fish and Game to protect Gulf of Alaska chinook salmon, Katherine Rose of KCAW on a lower than expected harvest level for Southeast chinook fishermen, and possible changes are coming to the system that supplies data from marine weather buoys, according to KMXT's Davis Hovey.
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