Marina Cummiskey/KMXT Threshold Recycling Services recently changed their self-serve recycling sheds into a drive-thru operation. Folks simply drive up with their recyclables and volunteers help unload and sort everything. KMXT’s Marina Cummiskey went to Threshold’s new “Recycling Haven” Friday and filed this report. To learn more about Threshold’s new recycling haven tune into KMXT’s Talk of the Rock Tuesday at …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT More often than not, Kodiak’s fishing industry separates the catching and the processing. Most of Kodiak’s fleet heads out to sea, collects the bounty, and delivers it either directly to canneries in town, or to tenders that bring it back en masse. But last week a different type of boat was in town, one that pairs the two …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Next week the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will decide if Kodiak residents should have an opportunity to vote on whether or not smoking should be banned in indoor public places. The second hand smoke control ordinance, if passed by the assembly, will be put on the October ballot and left to the community to decide. During last week’s …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A sunset provision that would lower the sales tax on Dec. 31 will more than likely be eliminated by the Kodiak City Council. During the council’s work session on Tuesday City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski explained the looming expiration of two decades worth of sales tax increases. Kniaziowski said the council adopted an ordinance back in 1993 that increased …

Coming up this week, it’s been a tough month for salmon tenders, with one submerged upside down and two more hitting the rocks; salmon tracking is underway as part of the plan to figure out what’s wrong with Cook Inlet king salmon, and, with apologies to Dr. Seuss, “One Fish, Two Fish, Young Fish, maybe not so old fish.” The …

Jay Barrett and Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The return of the Alaska State Ferry Tustumena, which has been in a Seward dry dock since November, has been pushed back for a third time. The Alaska Marine Highway System announced on Wednesday that faulty welds will mean the Tusty won’t be sailing until near the end of August. Hundreds of passengers already booked …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Construction of a pier on the south side of Pier III was dismissed during Tuesday’s City Council work session. Instead the city will go ahead with the project as planned, and build on the north side of current infrastructure. Attention shifted to the south side back in June when geotechnical work on the north end of Pier III …

Michelle Ridgeway, left, William Lekanof, Anthony Lekanof and Dani Merculief are pictured before the NOAA vessel Rainier. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Schools out for summer, which means most teenagers are relishing the three months of freedom before they’ll have to hit the books again come fall. But for three high school students from St. George Island in the Pribilofs, the learning hasn’t …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A new ambulance and fire engine may soon be coming to Kodiak. During last night’s city council work session Fire Chief Rome Kamai presented the two potential purchases to the council, both of which he said were very needed. Kamai said an ambulance would cost around $201,000, but thanks to two grants the city will only pick up …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A Pier III update, ambulance purchase presentation and nonprofit grant requests are just a few of the many items on the Kodiak City Council’s work session agenda tonight. Last month the council passed the 2014 budget, which included an ambulance and fire engine purchase. Tonight the council will hear about those purchases, and get an update on the …