The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly candidates, from left to right, Kyle Crow, Chris Lynch, Mel Stephens, Jonathan Strong, and Dennis Symmons. Pam Foreman/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tuesday night, candidates for the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly answered a lineup of questions at a debate that KMXT hosted alongside the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce.  The seats on the assembly are the only competitive …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Several programs around Kodiak offer breastfeeding mothers care and guidance, and one of those – the KANA-affiliated Women, Infants, and Children program – recently received an award for meeting the breastfeeding rates of a government-based public health initiative called Healthy People 2020.     KANA dietician Shanna Moeder says the federal WIC program focuses on nutrition for children from …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT It’s been a dry summer for Kodiak, which has lowered bodies of water throughout Kodiak Island, including the Monashka reservoir. According to Rick Thoman the climate science and services manager for the Alaska region of the National Weather Service, it’s one of the driest seasons in Kodiak history. “Kodiak since June 1 has received just over ten inches …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Providence Health & Services presented at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s work session last Thursday in a bid to extend its lease with the borough on the Rezanoff Drive medical center – a lease which it established in 1997. Borough assessor Bill Roberts, standing in for the borough manager, introduced the Providence representative. “As you know, Providence’s lease …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Many trees have suffered damage due to the Twin Creeks fire, and that issue made it onto the agenda at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s work session last night. Resource Management Officer, Duane Dvorak, gave a summary of what they know so far about the affected trees in Chiniak. “In some of these areas, the fire ran underneath …

Anna sprays a field in Kodiak. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT High school students in Kodiak are doing college-level science. Maybe even PhD-level science. World Bridge is a NASA-sponsored group that assigns Alaskan students to scientific research projects. At a recent competition in Italy, the group showed that their earthquake research could have a global impact, but that’s only one project …

Ellamy Tiller. Via Kodiak Baptist Mission Kayla Desroches/KMXT Every month, the Kodiak Public Library hosts a musician in its Sunday Sounds on the Patio series, and the program is starting up again for the fall season. You may know this month’s artist from around town. Her name is Ellamy Tiller and she sings and plays guitar with the Twang, a …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak residents may have noticed that the Pasagshak River looks a little low recently, and that hasn’t gone unobserved by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Donn Tracy is the Kodiak area management biologist for ADF & G’s sport fishing division and says the river has been low all summer and that it’s blocked off where it …

Janet Bane. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT One Kodiak artist will teach a workshop this week at the Kodiak Public Library about an art form she’s been practicing since childhood.  Janet Bane says she grew up in Taiwan, but was born in mainland China. “The south city … is a southern Confucius hometown, and at the age of 4 we have …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Jackson Mobile Home Park once again made it onto the agenda at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s regular meeting last week. These same ordinances have been through two work sessions and a regular meeting, and borough assessor Bill Roberts stood in for the borough manager in explaining the ordinance. “It is changing some of the title 17 sections …