Culture

The Alutiiq Museum just last week put in its third round of commemorative bricks at the Alutiiq Ancestors Memorial Park. As the museum’s public program manager Djuna Davidson explains, the bricks can commemorate many different things. “Now we have four different sort of patches of bricks, and we did fundraising campaigns to help support the existence and the ongoing maintenance …

Long before strippers gyrated for fishermen who boarded the Wild Alaskan for a night of fun, she was known as the F/V Shaman, one of the most profitable boats to ever throw pots in Alaskan waters. She had a million-dollar price tag when she was built in Tacoma in 1974 — 110 feet long with a high wheelhouse. Made to …

The pandemic has been particularly hard on the arts community- after all, what is theater and music without an audience? Thankfully, as the world begins to thaw from a long pandemic winter, in-person arts are steadily returning to Kodiak. Katie Oliver, executive director of the Kodiak Arts Council, is excited to announce that the arts council will host a live …

After months of planning, the Sun’aq Tribe will be hosting its Alutiiq Festival along Near Island’s North End Trail this Saturday. According to Alyssa Madrid, Cultural Program Coordinator for the Sun’aq Tribe, the festival will be held outdoors due to the pandemic. “We decided to have an outdoor festival this time around. And with that, we are going to have …

During KMXT’s Spring Fundraising week, we highlighted the entrepreneurial spirit of Kodiak with interviews from new and budding businesses. Join us for a special interview with Nick Mangini, one of the pioneers of kelp farming for both Kodiak and the whole of Alaska.

KMXT’s Dylan Simard is joined by the Kodiak History Museum’s Marlise Lee and Tyler-Rose Hoffman to discuss the republication of “Faraway Island” by Carolyn Erskine and operating a museum in the time of COVID.

On this Thursday’s midday news report with host Terry Haines, stories covered include: A live update from the Emergency Operations Center An update on a Kodiak fisherman’s protest against an Anchorage hospital’s COVID-19 visitation policies in a battle to see his daughter A new case of Covid-19 confirmed in Kodiak, bringing the count to 7 active community cases. A local …

A divided Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly is asking lawmakers to add law enforcement to the list of classes protected from discrimination in Alaska. As KRBD’s Eric Stone reports, that’s after Borough Mayor Rodney Dial cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of the resolution. On Monday, Ketchikan’s Borough Assembly took up a resolution asking the Alaska Legislature to add police officers …

Today, on KMXT’s Midday News, stay tuned for: A seafood processing barge breaks loose in Bristol Bay. A new study underway linking pink salmon production with climate change. And the last essay from Kodiak’s “Culture and Covid-19”. All that and more, this Friday on KMXT.

Join KMXT’s Talk of the Rock host, Rhonda McBride as she speaks with Rafel Bitanga, Marie Acemah and Sarah Harrington on local pandemic journeys. They shed light on “Culture and Covid-19”, a local summer workshop and partnership between the Kodiak History Museum and See Stories, a non-profit that offers video production workshops for students.