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Vessel examiner Nicole Clark doing a safety check with boat owner, Stormy Stutes. Photo by Drew Herman Kayla Desroches/KMXT If there’s one thing you need to keep in mind when taking your vessel out into Kodiak waters, it’s safety. This week, the Coast Guard in Kodiak is trying to raise awareness for National Safe Boating Week 2015. Members of the …

A picture of Trident’s construction next to the Spit. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT With Crab Fest fast approaching, vendors and rides will need all the space they can get by St. Paul Harbor – not only for themselves, but for the people who’ll line up at the booths. Part of preparing for Crab Fest means clearing the Spit to make …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT   Thursday night, Jackson Mobile Home Park residents filled the Borough Assembly work session. Many say they just found out the park would be closing. Here are some of the comments from citizens who stepped up to speak. “I went to the mailboxes the other day to check my mail and I counted every single mail box that …

Munro docked at base. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A Change of Command Ceremony took place at the Coast Guard base Friday as one captain handed responsibility of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro to his successor. According to Vice Admiral Charles Ray, who spoke at the proceedings, the ceremony is a long-standing tradition in the transfer of leadership.      “And …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Charges are imminent in a hit and run that severely injured a Kodiak man over three months ago In a statement the police chief said Kodiak Police seized a truck last weekend matching the description of the vehicle involved. It belongs to 42-year-old Alex Rice. The release went on to say criminal charges will be forthcoming. On the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It appears the Alaska State Ferry Tustumena will definitely be back in service in time for Kodiak Crab Festival.  In an e-mail Wednesday to Kodiak’s mayor and the chamber of commerce director, Marine Highway System boss Mike Neussl said he was happy to report that the Tustumena was underway from Ketchikan to resume commercial passenger-carrying. Chamber of Commerce …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT People filled the chairs, stood in the doorways, and sat on the floor at the Borough Assembly work session last night. Many of them were residents of Jackson Mobile Home Park and say they were recently given notice that the park would be closed. Some citizens spoke up to ask for the Borough Assembly to intercede. Barbara Cobban …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Both the Kodiak City Council and the Kodiak Borough Assembly will hold meetings tonight. The Borough Assembly will begin its work session at 7:30 p.m. and continue discussion of several unresolved issues from last week’s regular meeting, including a property tax ordinance for mobile homes. Borough Manager Bud Cassidy said at last Thursday’s meeting that the ordinance would …

Left to right, Lieutenant DJ Clumpner, Brittany Tregarthen, and Dan Canavan. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT If you like running – or biking, skipping, or hopping – you can join the Alaska Law Enforcement Torch Run & Pledge Drive for Special Olympics Alaska on Saturday. You can sponsor a participant, or be one yourself, and choose your own method of doing …

A Ravn Alaska de Havilland Dash-8 taxiing in Anchorage. Photo FlightAware  Jay Barrett/KMXT The afternoon Ravn Alaska flight Tuesday from Anchorage to Kodiak was turned around when a warning light went off in the cockpit indicating an electrical problem. “A caution light went on indicating that there was a failed inverter, which is basically like a fuse. And based on …