Map of Termination Point with one part of trail loop marked in red. Via romancingalaska.com Kayla Desroches/KMXT A couple of groups are trying to make sure that Termination Point will stay protected and the trees there will remain rooted. Borough manager Bud Cassidy says the village corporation, Leisnoi, currently owns that land, but may sell its development rights to the …

Marbled murrelet. Tom Benson/Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Termination Point may gain more permanent protection in an upcoming land rights sale. According to Kodiak Island Borough Manager, Bud Cassidy, the village corporation of Leisnoi is considering selling the land’s development rights and possibly the timber harvesting rights. The Great Land Trust, an Alaskan nonprofit that works to identify and protect conservation land, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Parents who drive their kids to the first day of school on Monday won’t see a digital sign that once stood at Kodiak High School along Rezanoff Drive. Student government originally introduced the idea to order the sign and, together with service organizations in the community, helped fund it at a total cost of about $25,000. The school …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Area Native Association just received a portion of a $5,500,000 million dollar grant that will be distributed to communities in Alaska. KANA makes health care available throughout the island, from medical care to early childhood programs, and its new grant of $325,000 falls under the Affordable Care Act. Andy Teuber is KANA’s CEO and President and …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT At its regular meeting last night, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly discussed approving nonprofit grants, hiring a resource management officer, and establishing a lands committee. Borough manager Bud Cassidy says the committee would be a borough standing committee and it would… “…assist and identify creative and workable solutions to ongoing and emerging issues in the selection, acquisition management …

Bears feeding on a fin whale carcass in Larson Bay. Via NOAA Kayla Desroches/KMXT The carcasses of thirty whales that have stranded along the Gulf of Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula have puzzled scientists since the first discoveries this May, and now NOAA is giving the cases “unusual mortality event” status. That means that the stranding event is unexpected, involves …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last night at its monthly regular meeting, the Kodiak Island Borough Zoning and Planning Commission discussed a conditional use permit application from the city to expand the quarry on Near Island. The city realized after the fact that the quarry is being built into the conservation zoning district, and the application is part of the process to fix …

Kayla Desroches/KXMT The Kodiak Island Borough Planning and Zoning Commission will hold its monthly regular meeting tonight to talk about adding additional lots to Rasmussen’s Mobile Home Park and the expansion of the quarry on Near Island, among other topics of discussion. Bob Pederson is the community development director for the Kodiak Island Borough and says there will be three …

Staff at the Peabody Museum sorround the kayak. Via the Alutiiq Museum and Archaelogical Repository Kayla Desroches/KMXT A rare kayak will be sailing into Kodiak – sealed and crated securely on a barge – thanks to a grant the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository just received. Right now, the kayak is in Massachusetts at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and …

ANSEP building in Anchorage. Via ANSEP.net Kayla Desroches/KMXT A science and math camp aims to reach out to Alaska Native students and encourage them to craft, calculate, and compete. The ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp is organized with the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, or ANSEP, and puts kids to work on everything from spacecrafts to computers. This …