Paintbrushes. John Morgan/Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT An upcoming Teaching Artist Training would certify participants to teach in local and rural schools as an artist in residence and help them to advance onto a state-wide level. It’s the fourth time the Kodiak Island Borough School District together with the Alutiiq Museum, the Arts Council, and Kodiak College have held the training, and …

Courtesy of ComFish 2016 and the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce Kayla Desroches/KMXT The ComFish Alaska Trade Show will not only offer booths – and products for sale – but will also provide a selection of informational talks. The majority of the forums are scheduled for Friday, but there are several on Thursday, including one about the history of the seafood …

View of the University of Kansas. Brent Flanders/Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT An Alaska educational testing system came to a halt Tuesday, when a fiber-optic cable near the University of Kansas was severed at about 1:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. The University of Kansas is home to AAI — the Achievement and Assessment Institute — which provides online standardized testing to school …

Anchorage Beach on Chirikof Island looking west. (Public Domain photo by USGS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Earlier this month, a Kodiak representative and the Army Corps of Engineers traveled to the lower 48 and reclaimed Alutiiq ancestral remains stored at Indiana University Bloomington. Professor Della Cook studied and wrote about the remains while they were at the university. The remains fall under …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with Marnie Leist and Patrick Saltonstall from the Alutiiq Museum about the return of Alutiiq ancestral remains to the island.

People gathered in Fisherman’s Hall for Democratic Caucus. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Bernie Sanders won Alaska’s Democratic Caucus this weekend, and Kodiak was definitely “feeling the Bern.” Democrats showed up in droves for the city’s democratic caucus Saturday. 201 people in all cast votes, 175 of which were for Sanders, 26 of which were for Hillary Clinton. Fisherman’s Hall is …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT From attending football camps to playing youth league, one Kodiak High School player has been preparing for college football since age nine, and now he’ll be fulfilling that dream in Mesa, Arizona, east of Phoenix. According to a Kodiak Island Borough School District press release, Kordell Pillans will be playing at Mesa Community College the next two to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Bernie Sanders, or just “Bernie” to his fond supporters, is one of the leading presidential candidates alongside Hillary Clinton in the upcoming Democratic Caucus in Alaska, a state known to be fiercely independent with a tendency to lean towards more conservative candidates. Jill Yordy, the Alaska state coordinator for the Bernie Sanders campaign, says Sanders appeals to those …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns are preparing for the Alaska Democratic Caucus Saturday, and while neither candidate has dropped by Alaska for that purpose, one of them did spend a summer in the state. After college, Clinton worked at a cannery in Valdez, and according to her interview on the Today Show, the experience was full …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Saturday is the Democratic caucus for the Kodiak district, and the number of attendees will determine the method of voting. According to Secretary Treasurer of the Kodiak Democratic Party, Stosh Anderson, who’s heading up the caucus this year, the organizers might count heads or ask voters to write their preferences down on cards – whichever is more efficient. …