Alexander Petropavlovskiy/KMXT June is Filipino American month in Kodiak. The proclamation was made by Borough Mayor Jerrol Friend during the Borough Assembly’s regular meeting earlier this month. “It’s my honor tonight to make the proclamation declaring Filipino American heritage month in Kodiak, where as the Kodiak island borough is made up of a wonderful mosaic of culturally diverse people in …

Al Asuncion/KMXT Hi, I’m Al Asuncion, an intern at KMXT as part of the station’s summer archiving project. This week, I listened to the show “My Green Earth”, hosted by Stacy Studebaker, also known as Leila Liverwort. “Hello everyone and welcome to “My Green Earth,” a weekly radio show about the environment for the young and young at heart. I’m …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Tributes continue to come in from the community remembering Iver Malutin, who died Wednesday at the age of 82. The Kodiak elder and community leader had been hospitalized in Anchorage following heart valve replacement surgery. Alutiiq Museum Director Alisha Drabek said she always considered Malutin a mentor, and feels fortunate to have had him in her life. “That …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Athletic enthusiasts will be disappointed to know the annual “race against the rock” has been cancelled this year. For 12 years the Eco Challenge pinned teams of four against Kodiak’s terrain in a day-long race that often included biking, hiking, running, rafting and navigating. Petty Officer Diana Honings handles public affairs for the Kodiak Coast Guard, which puts …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT While a new ferry is still a solid five or seven years out, plans are already well underway to replace the aging vessel Tustumena. The replacement was one of many topics of conversation for members of the Marine Transportation Advisory Board, or MTAB, who were in Kodiak for a quarterly meeting on Tuesday. The proposed new ferry is …

Iver Malutin, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak Chairman, holds a plaque of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter SPAR during a dinner with the U.S. Coast Guard and Sun’aq Tribe members June 24, 2012 in Kodiak, Alaska. The Sun’aq Tribe made the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter SPAR a honorary ship of the tribe for it efforts in honoring the tribes members who …

Yasent Oliver/KMXT Hello, my name is Yasent Oliver, a summer intern at KMXT as part of the station’s summer archiving project. This week I listened to many tapes of the show “More Tall Tales for Short People,” all but one of which were produced and hosted by Jaime Rodriguez. One thing that particularly stood out to me was what happened …

Today on Talk of the Rock, we’ll talk with a former Kodiak doctor who recently dabbled in the art of book writing while documenting his own family history in Alaska. Dr. Bob Johnson’s new book, “Alaska Frontier Surgeon,” captures the life story of his father, the late Dr. Arthur Holmes Johnson, who was the first physician to call Kodiak home. …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak has long been a hub for research, but this summer it has become a part of what’s called the Global Ethnohydrology Study. Meg du Bray is a graduate student at Arizona University and is working through the University of Alaska Fairbanks to talk with people in Kodiak about climate change, which is the topic of this year’s …

Marina Cummisky/KMXT Hi, I’m Marina Cummiskey, an intern at KMXT as part of the station’s summer archiving project. This week I listened to Fisherman/Fisherwoman: A Portrait of a Lady, produced by Jaime Rodriguez in May of 1983. "Good evening, I’m Jaime Rodriquez. Recently, a volunteer here at KMXT expressed intrest in a program about women in the fishing industry, specifically …