Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This week a few dozen scientists will converge on Kodiak to talk fisheries and watersheds. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, typically holds an annual Arctic Science Conference, but it usually takes place in Anchorage or Fairbanks. This year, however, Kodiak will host the three-day conference at the Harbor Convention Center. Brian Himelbloom is …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s been about four months since Kodiak Island Trails Network hosted a road system beach clean up, but results are finally in. The Coast Walk event took place the first two weeks of June and targeted 81 beaches along Kodiak’s road system for volunteers to document and clean up. That prompted a full summer of unexpected beach clean …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last night the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly decided to postpone a vote on its capital improvement projects priority list. An eight item list was before the assembly as a resolution, but concerns over one of the projects on the list, and the absence of three assembly members, led to its postponement until the October 3 regular meeting. Assemblyman …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak Area Native Association is opening its doors to a new kind of client these days. The organization, which typically only provides services to Alaska Natives and Native Americans, recently added veterans to its clientele. Rick Epperson is the Rural Health Program Manager for Alaska Veterans Affairs and said the service expansion is the result of a sharing …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A new class offered at Kodiak College will give students a chance to blur the line between their left and right brains. Switgard Deusterloh will teach this fall’s introduction to marine science through experiments and art, a new class that pairs her two passions: science and art. Deusterloh spoke on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock on Tuesday and …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Each day this week KMXT took a closer look at the Kodiak Island Borough’s capital improvement projects priority list, focusing on a few of the eight items each day. Tonight that list will be before the Borough Assembly as a resolution and they will vote on whether or not to submit it to Governor Sean Parnell and the …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly narrowed down its state legislative capital improvement projects priority list for the 2014 legislative session. From a pool of about 16 projects, the assembly, with the help of Borough lobbyist Mark Hickey and Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman, narrowed its list down to eight tentative items. All week KMXT has been taking …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Yesterday KMXT told you about the first two items on the Kodiak Island Borough’s state legislative capital improvement projects priority list. The borough assembly narrowed the eight-item list from a pool of 16 projects during its work session on Thursday, with the help of Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman and Borough lobbyist Mark Hickey. Third on the CIP list …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Mid September is a good time of year for Kodiak anglers. Up until then fishermen are often crowded in and alone the shorelines of road system rivers, unable to fish above the highways that bisect them. But yesterday things spread out a little when the Alaska Department of Fish and Game opened up the rivers and creeks above …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly narrowed down its state legislative capital improvement projects priority list for the 2014 legislative session. With the help of Borough Lobbyist Mark Hickey and Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman, the assembly got a realistic idea of the state’s budget this year, and narrowed the 16 potential projects down to eight. First on …