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A Coast Guard HC-130 lands at Kodiak's Benny Benson State Airport near Buskin Beach.
BRIAN VENUA
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KMXT
The Coast Guard has a major presence on the island with over 500 enlisted personnel, and that doesn’t even include their families. Coast Guard members can transfer pretty much any time of year, but the biggest shifts in personnel happen between May and August.
Midday Report
  • Researchers steady a bottom lander, deployed in a tidal study at the East Foreland this summer.
    (Courtesy of National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly heard from citizens who want to change the way ballots are counted in local elections. The state’s powerful tides have enormous potential to generate power, but that energy is inaccessible. And across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta families are celebrating young hunter gatherers with Throwing Parties.
Talk of the Rock
  • On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Mary Forbes, president of the Kodiak Public Broadcasting Corporation's Board of Directors, and Patricia Ossowski, chair of the Community Advisory Board, about what it's like to serve on a nonprofit board.
Alaska Fisheries Report
  • Trainees take part in an Alaska Marine Safety Education Association exercise.
    Alaska Marine Safety Association.
    This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Davis Hovey reports on a bill that would eliminate double vessel registration for fishermen, Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin reports on new bycatch bills from Rep. Mary Peltola, Copper River salmon season has started, according to KUAC's Dan Bross, and it is drill conductor training season for the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association.