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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A local non-profit scored big this week when it picked up $119,595 in a grant from the United States Institute of Peace. Marie Acemah is the executive director and cofounder of Media Action .

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is looking for a new executive director. Ray Riutta, who’s been at the organization for 10 years, will be stepping down at the end of the year.

Brianna Gibbs and Maggie Wall/KMXT Approximately 40 business leaders from around Alaska are in Kodiak today and tomorrow (Tuesday and Wednesday) to learn more about the challenges local businesses face. Group members will meet with local business owners as well as spend time touring local businesses and facilities as part of an outreach visit by the Alaska State Chamber of …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Staff members at Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center are waging a war on obesity this summer. But you won’t find them wielding the typical combat weaponry. Instead, Providence will use community workshops and reality TV to fight the nationwide epidemic that is no stranger to Kodiak.

Jay Barrett/KMXT No injuries were reported by the Kodiak Fire Department after the second kitchen fire in a week. The latest occurred Saturday in an apartment building on Selief Lane. Deputy Fire Chief Jim Mullican says the grease fire in an upstairs unit had been put out by the building’s automatic sprinkler system by the time responders arrived. The blaze …

Larry Van Daele, left, has taken a new position with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as Regional Supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Conservation. The state agreed to move the office to Kodiak at Van Daele’s request. He is pictured here with Matt Van Daele, environmental scientist for Koniag; Kodiak artist Mary Ruskovich; CEO Anders Bjorklund at Gronklitt …

Jay Barrett/KMXT At Thursday’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting, funding to the local Girl Scouts and Little League was on the chopping block as the yearly grants to non-profits were considered. At the prior work session, Assemblywoman Louise Stutes had proposed zeroing out the two organizations. She was convinced to change her position after a room full of Girl Scouts, …

Kodiak’s Larry Van Daele says goodbye to Taquka, an orphaned Kodiak brown bear, now living at a wildlife park in Gronklitt, Sweden. Photos Anders Bjorklund Jay Barrett/KMXT A young Kodiak brown bear that was orphaned here a year and a half ago has a new home in Sweden. Bear expert Larry Van Daele, the former Fish and Game wildlife biologist …