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Left to right: Oregon’s Trevor Dunbar, Stanford’s Elliott Heath, Nike’s Hohamed Trafeh and U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program SPC Robert Cheseret finish the first heat of the men’s 5,000-meter preliminaries June 25 at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs Jay …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Two Alaskans were re-appointed, and a Washington State man was named to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Monday. The announcements were made by Sam Rauch, deputy assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries. Dan Hull and Ed Dersham, both of Anchorage, were reappointed to designated Alaskan seats on the council, while Craig Cross was appointed to a Washington-designated seat. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT While the Kodiak Island Borough searches for a new manager, the director of the borough’s community development department has been filling in. Bud Cassidy gave the borough assembly a brief update of on-going projects at Thursday night’s meeting.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. Army vessel Monterrey left Woman’s Bay, where it had been tied up at Lash Dock for over a week. Army Reserve Major Annemarie Daneker says the 174-foot landing craft left at about 3 p.m. Sunday, under tow, for Seward. Daneker says the ship is now under the supervision of the Naval Sea Systems Command, and all …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A Kodiak High School alum will be competing for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team today. Trevor Dunbar, an all-American sophomore at the University of Oregon, will compete in the 5,000 meter preliminary this evening. Dunbar was the 25th qualifier for the 25 places, and had been "on the bubble" until Saturday, when other …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Island Borough Mayor Jerome Selby participated in the Alaska Rocket and Space Summit last Thursday, though had to do so via teleconference since the assembly had a meeting that night. He said folks attending were from Lockheed, Boeing and other launch clients and launch facilitators, including Frank DiBello, the CEO of Space Florida.

Ellen Lockyer/KSKA Senate President Gary Stevens of Kodiak hosted the Alaska Rocket and Space Summit at the Anchorage legislative information office Thursday. The day long session featured presentations from representatives of successful aerospace enterprises in Florida and Utah, and from Alaska agencies like the state Department of Transportation and the Alaska Aerospace Corporation. In trying to catch up with the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough’s finance director, Karl Short, is on a roll. The longest-serving borough employee has just won a prestigious municipal accounting award for an amazing 27th time in a row. That makes him the New York Yankees, Boston Celtics and Green Bay Packers of accounting. Acting Borough Manager Bud Cassidy joked that Short’s awards would provide …