Kayla Desroches/KMXT      Boat owners sometimes leave town to get repairs and other services they can’t find in Kodiak, and some even sail down to Seattle to get work done. That’s one issue members of the Port and Harbors Advisory Board brought up at the Kodiak City Council work session Tuesday night when they introduced the idea of establishing …

Chris Sannito with a block of pollock skins. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Like many pet owners, you may toss your dog tidbits from your plate – a fatty piece of meat here, a bit of fish skin there. Well, a couple of University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers are experimenting with turning some of Alaska’s finest scraps into dog treats. They’ve …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with the team behind the upcoming Fairwind Players radio theater performance, “The Mermaid of Hanin Rocks.” You’ll hear from writer Andy Ozols, director Pat Szabo, and Fairwind Players member Pam Foreman.

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Housing is limited and expensive in Kodiak, but local government has been moving towards changing that since the announcement of the Jackson Mobile Home Park closure. At the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting last week, the borough viewed ordinances to amend several codes, the first of which may encourage more recreational vehicle parks to open. Borough Manager …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT New machinery and its procurement were two of the more controversial topics at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting Thursday night. Assemblymembers talked at length not only about purchasing two new machines for the Kodiak Island Borough landfill, but also about the process of selecting them. A skid-steer loader moves garbage in the landfill, and borough staff …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly gathered together Tuesday night for its first work session following the Thanksgiving holiday, and one of the items on the agenda was the documentation of closed meetings called executive sessions. Governmental bodies sometimes hold these meetings when, for example, they need to talk about a court case or an individual’s staff performance. As …

Participants at Kodiak Strong Planning Day vote on which goals they want to see move onto the next stage. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Wednesday, around 30 community members gathered together for Kodiak Strong Planning Day. The meeting’s purpose was to decide on two goals that the city of Kodiak can achieve in the next year, and it was sponsored by …

An example of a lampada. Flickr/Ivan T Kayla Desroches/KMXT In the museum world, the most “precious” metals aren’t necessarily gold and silver. There’s also copper, lead, bronze, and alloys of those materials. Even more precious is the insight that those objects give us into the past, and so preserving them also preserves that information. The Alutiiq Museum’s Curator of Collections, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Some lawmakers in Alaska have proposed legislation that would raise the minimum number of students for a school to be eligible for state funding from 10 to 25. Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education President Duncan Fields says it has become a hot topic in the state. “It sent a shockwave throughout all of rural Alaska. …

Screenshot of the Alutiiq Museum’s new website. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Technology is Kodiak’s lifeline to the rest of the world, and that also applies to Kodiak museums. The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has accounts not only on the most popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but also image-sharing sites like Instagram and Pinterest. And recently, it …