Single-use plastic shopping bags on the street. (Photo by Velkr0/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT Threshold Services Incorporated will not accept plastic film for the foreseeable future. That means the recycling center won’t collect things like plastic shopping bags, bubble wrap, and anything made from thin stretchy plastics. The reason these products aren’t being accepted at Kodiak’s main recycling center is they’re currently worthless on …

Senator Lisa Murkowski and U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visited Kodiak’s wind turbines on their short visit to the archipelago.(Photo courtesy of Senator Lisa Murkowski) Mitch Borden/KMXT While on a recent day trip to Kodiak to tour the community’s electrical grid that’s almost entirely powered by renewable energy. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, …

Jami Gibson sharing her story at the Mayors’ Drug Summit. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT A public forum addressing drugs and addiction was recently held in the City of Kodiak. It was hosted by the city’s Mayor, Pat Branson, and the Kodiak Island Borough Mayor, Dan Rohrer. The event was called the Mayors’ Summit on Drugs. The purpose of …

Wendel Capili standing by the stack of paper Threshold’s recently been unable to get rid of. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT When it comes to recycling, China is the biggest name in the game. The majority of all of the materials recycled in the United States end up there. So, as China implements stricter restrictions on what it will …

Kodiak’s fire station sits at 70 feet above sea level, which is in the city’s tsunami inundation zone. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is closing in on approving its budget for the fiscal year 2019, but at its regular meeting last night it voted to go with a version of the budget that reduces funding …

Lt. Tim Putney standing by the stuffed brown bear in the lobby of Kodiak Police Station. ( Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT The City of Kodiak is getting a new police chief. After serving as Kodiak’s chief of police for the past five years, Rhonda Wallace is retiring and the person who’s been chosen to fill her shoes, as KMXT …

One of the KEA wind turbines on Pillar Mountain. (Photo by LaniElderts/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT Businesses around Kodiak have been getting calls from people claiming to be from the Kodiak Electric Association and: “Informing them they’re going to be disconnected if they don’t pay their bill immediately.” Dan Menth, who’s the manager of finance and administration at KEA, says this is …

Mitch Borden/KMXT A replacement needs to be chosen by the Kodiak City Council to serve out the remainder of Councilman Gabe Saravia’s term. Saravia recently submitted a letter of resignation because he’s moving away from Kodiak. The council has to fill the seat soon, and at its work session last night, the first and only candidate was interviewed. The Kodiak …

Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough is in the middle of figuring out what its budget should look like in the upcoming year and it has a lot to take into consideration. The main topic of discussion for weeks has been whether to raise property taxes to support the borough’s school district. Many assembly members do not want to raise …

(Photo from KMXT’s Archive) Mitch Borden/KMXT Alaska’s Governor, Bill Walker, is making an effort to reach out to Public Radio stations around the state to talk about different issues. Recently, he gave KMXT’s Mitch Borden and Kayla Desroches a call to chat about commercial fisheries and Alaska’s aging fishing fleet.