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Jay Barrett/KMXT The City of Kodiak just received special permission from the State of Alaska to spend grant money it hasn’t actually received yet to complete both phases of upgrades at Baranof Park. In April, the city and Ohno Construction of Seattle negotiated a lower bid price to come within just a few dollars of the $3-million available. Because of …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Coast Guard is warning mariners on the west side of Kodiak Island to be on the look out for a partially-submerged fishing boat that went down Sunday. An Air Station Kodiak Jayhawk crew rescued five crew members from the vessel Scandia more than 70 miles west of Kodiak City Sunday afternoon. The Coast Guard received a call …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska State Ferry service is set to begin to Old Harbor today (Monday). The ferry Tustumena is scheduled to arrive from Sand Point at about 6:30 this evening on its first regularly scheduled stop. It will depart an hour later, and arrive in Kodiak at 3 a.m. tomorrow. Port calls to Old Harbor this summer will only occur …

Jay Barrett/KMXT While there still is no free lunch aboard airliners, you can get free beer on Era Alaska flights in and out of Kodiak. At least through the end of the month. The company announced Friday that Kodiak has been added to the small list of routes where a beer will be complimentary for those 21 and older. Era …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A statewide arts education group has selected several Kodiak residents for its annual "Champion of Arts" award. Seven people, in fact: Melissa Borton, Aaron Griffin, Catherine Le, Patrick McElligatt, Katie Oliver, Peggy Rauwolf and Norm Wooten. If those names sound familiar, and they should, they are the members of the Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Come October, you’ll be paying one penny on the dollar more for purchases in the city of Kodiak, but the cap on taxes will not change. There was no public comment and very little council debate at last night’s Kodiak City Council meeting before the vote on the sales tax increase. After rejecting one amendment and accepting another, …

A trawler sails out of Kodiak harbor past the grounded U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey Sunday, as the civilian landing craft Cape Douglas stands by with more oil spill containment boom. Jay Barrett/KMXT photo Jay Barrett/KMXT The U.S. Army Reserve landing craft Monterrey, which has spent all week aground in Kodiak after striking a rock and taking on water, …

Held up by Sealife aquarist Jemma Battric, Claude weighs a mighty 15lbs and measures 15 inches wide – when he is fully grown he will weigh a whopping 30lbs and gain an extra three inches.Daily Mail photo Coming up this week, the trawlers in the Gulf will see a 15 percent reduction in allowable halibut bycatch; to err is human, …