Kodiak College began its fall semester on Monday. KMXT spoke to Jacelyn Keys, Director of Kodiak College, to discuss the new semester and the college’s plans to deal with COVID. According to Keys, services at the college are much easier to access than they were last semester. “So our president at the University of Alaska statewide level, has mandated that …

Commanding Officer of the USS John Paul Jones Robert Watts in his cabin. A Navy destroyer pulled into port at Kodiak’s Pier 2 on Thursday Morning. As it took on 300,000 gallons of fuel at the Kodiak City Dock, the USS John Paul Jones was easy to spot among the fishing vessels. The Arleigh Burke class destroyer is 505 feet …

The oil spill in Womens Bay from the sunken vessel Saint Patrick has been responded to by the Coast Guard, along with a team of divers, according to a Wednesday press release from Coast Guard Sector Anchorage. The oil spill is suspected to have begun following an earthquake last week that may have disturbed the vessel. Global Diving & Salvage …

Election season is fast approaching for the Kodiak Island Borough, and with Duane Dvorak and Julie Kavanaugh both stepping down from the Borough Assembly, it’s going to be a little complicated. Aside from two Borough Assembly seats up for grabs in the election, there are two seats open on the School Board, two seats on the Bay View Road Service …

With the hospital system in Anchorage straining against an ever-rising caseload of COVID patients, its left communities in rural Alaska wondering how much of the burden their local hospital systems can handle. Fortunately for Kodiak, the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center is confident that it can rise to the challenge. Administrator for the facility Karl Hertz explains why. “I think …

In which Terry learns a great many things about Sablefish, as well as the ballad of the Wild Alaskan.

The Alutiiq Museum just last week put in its third round of commemorative bricks at the Alutiiq Ancestors Memorial Park. As the museum’s public program manager Djuna Davidson explains, the bricks can commemorate many different things. “Now we have four different sort of patches of bricks, and we did fundraising campaigns to help support the existence and the ongoing maintenance …

The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center has announced 33 new cases of COVID-19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. Among them are four community transmission cases, 19 unknown transmission cases, three travel related cases, and seven close contact cases. That adds up to 60 total cases reported this week, a number not seen since December of last year. This brings the active …

Students and staff at Kodiak public schools will mask up this coming school year. Superintendent Larry LeDoux announced today (TUESDAY) that masks will be mandatory for all vaccinated and unvaccinated staff and students in school buildings and on buses. The announcement said that exceptions may be made with certain students’ individual education plans in mind. The universal masking policy comes …

Warm August Nights is coming back to Kodiak this August 14th, following a COVID-induced hiatus. It aims to reappear with its full offering- live music, beer garden, hot dogs and hamburgers courtesy of the Lion’s club. But there is a catch. This may be the last Warm August Nights. Jeremiah “Doc” Meyers explains why. “Well, you know the same people …