Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The current Kodiak Maritime Museum. Toby Sullivan photo One day, hopefully, the Kodiak Maritime Museum will be a real place you can visit. In the meantime, the museum without walls- headed by Executive Director Toby Sullivan- is housed in a Harbormaster utility building in Dog Bay. Sullivan says the office-slash-museum is about 15 feet by 15 feet and …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak High School and Middle School Choirs gave their final performance of the school year Tuesday night. With help from the Kodiak High School Jazz Band, the students performed 18 songs in two acts to a packed house at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium. Here are some of the auditory and visual highlights.

Volunteers enter an investigator’s phone number into their cell phones. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Well over a hundred volunteers, mostly Coast Guard members and family, gathered early this morning at the Communications Station to help the FBI search for evidence related to the murders of Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle. The …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The state department’s rush to reform the J-1 visa program has slowed, says Senator Mark Begich. The program had been under intense scrutiny since last fall when hundreds of J-1 student workers at a Hershey’s chocolate plant in Pennsylvania walked out in protest of working conditions. Begich worked quickly to convince his colleagues that the program is essential …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT This week’s guest is Mary Guilas-Hawver, president of the Kodiak Filipino-American Association. Guilas-Hawver will discuss what the Fil-Am does, future plans and the organization’s stance on the J-1 Visa program.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT This week’s guest is Mary Guilas-Hawver, president of the Kodiak Filipino-American Association. Guilas-Hawver will discuss what the Fil-Am does, future plans and the organization’s stance on the J-1 Visa program.

Retiring Tustumena Captain Robert Crowley at the wheel. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT For the last 15 years Robert Crowley has been a kind of year-round Santa Claus to the Southcentral and Western Alaska ports that have relied on him as captain of the ferry Tustumena. After 36 years with the Alaska Marine Highway System, Crowley is retiring.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Bear Town Market opens up only on days when a cruise ship anchors in Kodiak. With Holland America’s Zaandam cruise ship in Kodiak yesterday, more than half a dozen vendors set up shop in the Sun’aq Bingo Hall so that visitors can easily find some of the island’s finest locally produced goods. The ship had1400 passengers and …

Carol Lampl at East Addition. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kenai Central softball team visited Kodiak for the opening games of the season. The Lady Bears varsity team won 10-3 on Friday, but lost 16-9 on Saturday. The Kardinals sent the Bears down in the bottom of the ninth in just minutes. Carole Lampl is a senior on the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The City of Kodiak has been drawing on its general fund to cover increasing costs, but without additional revenue or drastic cuts that fund could be depleted. Last night the Kodiak City Council gave the first reading of an ordinance that would increase the sales tax from six percent to seven percent. The ordinance would also increase the …