Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted last night to increase the price on a five-year-old contract for permitting and design of the proposed leachate treatment plant. The contract with CH2MHill was first written up in 2007 with a price tag of $392,599. Over a million dollars has been added to the contract since it was first drafted. Last …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaska’s largest fisheries trade show starts next week here in Kodiak. This is the 32nd year for ComFish. It’s grown from being part of Crab Fest and eventually outgrew its space at the armory and the Coast Guard base. This year the trade show will be at the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. Kodiak Chamber of Commerce Executive Director …

Shaylon Cochran/KDLL High School students from around the state, even Kodiak – and a few from Canada – were in Soldotna last week for the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy. KDLL’s Shaylon Cochran was invited to stop by and files this report.

Rosemarie Alexander/KTOO U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo and his Russian counterpart Lieutenant General Rafael Daerbaev Wednesday signed an agreement calling for continued cooperation on law enforcement in the Arctic, Bering Sea and North Pacific. Daerbaev is chief of the Northeast Border Guard of the Russian Federal Security Service. He and other Russian Coast Guardsmen have been in Juneau …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Concern about ocean acidification seems to be increasing in Alaska. In 2010 the University of Alaska Fairbanks established the Ocean Acidification Research Center. Last fall 18 U.S. Senators- including Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska- founded the Senate Oceans Caucus. Their first presenter at their first meeting was Dr. Jeremy Mathis, the director of the research center. …

Photo courtesy of Spirit of Youth Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak High School junior Wendi Castellon has been named a 2012 Spirit of Youth award winner in the science and environment category. Last summer Castellon got involved with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge’s Youth Conservation Corps. Shelly Lawson is an education coordinator at the refuge. She says it was an easy decision …

Ice and hard pack snow at the edge of the track at Baranof Park. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak High School track and field team- along with their coach and members of the community- has put in numerous hours clearing the Baranof Park quarter-mile track. Near record snowfall combined with rain and freezing temperatures covered the track with …

Photo courtesy of Island Trails Network Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Island Trails Network has been presented with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Alaska Region Partner of the Year Award. Shelly Lawson is an education specialist at the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge Center. She says the refuge nominated Island Trails because of their tireless efforts to clean marine debris from Kodiak’s beaches while …

KMXT Staff Report A Fairbanks woman hired as a petitioner by the Alaska Sea Party has been charged with submitting fraudulent signatures and four other misdemeanor and felony charges. When Deborah A. Carroll submitted the fraudulent petition booklet, the Alaska Coastal Management Program initiative committee was suspicious did not pass it on to the Division of Elections. Instead, they sent …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT President and CEO Will Anderson of Koniag Incorporated was the guest on last week’s Talk of the Rock on KMXT. Anderson discussed many issues including land use issues on Kodiak and the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) contracting program.