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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 …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There has been another shooting death in Kodiak. The Alaska State Troopers say 28-year-old Justen Nixon of Kodiak was shot at 3:18 a.m. Saturday morning while at a house party on Spruce Cape Road. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation – a branch of the state troopers – is looking into the shooting. Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain says Nixon …

Jay Barrett/KMXT At last night’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting, several contracts were approved with local non-profits that provide services to the borough. The contracts with the Kodiak Island Convention and Visitors Bureau, Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and Threshold Services were all approved unanimously.

Today on KMXT, the return of "The Naturalist," produced by the summer volunteer at Fort Abercrombie State Historic Park . This summer Deb Mignogno will bring us regular updates of what’s happening out there. Today she introduces herself.

Coming up this week the Norton Sound Red King quota is up, a dog who wouldn’t abandon ship as it was going down near Kodiak was rescued by a Good Samaritan. And the struggle to subsist on salmon, all coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had help this week from KYUK’s Mark Arehart reporting from Mountain Village, KUCB’s …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A short power outage at 8:52 this (Thursday) morning left Kodiak Electric customers from Gibson Cove to Monashka Bay without electricity for about a half hour. KEA spokeswoman Nancy Sweeney said the problem was a cable fault at the Hartman Substation, which is adjacent to the co-op’s headquarters and power house. Just a reminder, KMXT’s emergency generator kicks …

Jay Barrett/KMXT More land is being cleared atop Signal Hill to make way for the new Kodiak public library. Land is being cleared now to the south of the old barn on the site, with several large spruce marked for falling. In addition to dozens of dump truck loads of spruce boughs being hauled from the site, numerous flatbed trailers …

Maggie Wall and Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough is expected to take another step forward tonight toward finding a replacement for former Borough Manager Rick Gifford. The assembly is scheduled to meet in executive session during tonight’s regular meeting to review applications from prospective replacements for the manager position. Gifford’s last day was the 13th. He tendered his resignation …