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(Photo Courtesy of NOAA) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Women are harassed and fear for their safety much more than men when they work as fishery observers. That’s according to a report that NOAA’s office of law enforcement officials presented about sexual harassment of observers to a meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Kodiak this past week. The report shared …

(Photo by J. Stephen Conn / Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak The MJ Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded the Baranov Museum in Kodiak a $205,000 grant for a redesign of its permanent exhibits and a facility upgrade. Sarah Harrington is Executive Director of the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum. She says the money will be used to better care for …

Daysha Eaton/KMXT This Memorial Day weekend, Kodiak hosted its 60th Crab Festival. The celebration kicked off Thursday May 24, and finished up on Monday May 28. The first couple of days were rainy but then the sun came out on Saturday. That’s when KMXT went out to ask people what they love about the annual event. Here are a few …

Stewart McDonald The superintendents of Alaska’s many school districts agree: Kodiak’s superintendent is the best in the state. That honor for Kodiak Island Borough Schools Superintendent Stewart McDonald was announced Monday night at the school board meeting by Lisa Parady, the executive director of the Alaska Superintendents Association, who had these words of praise for his work. “A consistent and …

One of the items up for auction, a framed original watercolor by Gretchen Hancock, a garden and Spruce Cape scene. Courtesy of the Kodiak Arts Council Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Arts Council’s annual Arts and Adventure auction has a fitting literary theme this year for the Kodiak Archipelago: Treasure Island. Barbara Russell, chairman of the auction committee, explains a large …

Competitors stand at one station during the race and complete knots. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A competition Saturday pitted fisherman against fisherman in a set of tasks which included knot-tying, hook-throwing, and survival suit-donning. The event created a fun spectacle on the last day of ComFish and demonstrated some of the skills even a greenhorn deckhand needs day to day. …