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Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Marine Conservation Council received a sizable grant last week to help Kodiak jig fishermen get better prices for their Pacific cod and rockfish catches. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation gives grants with the goal of sustaining fishermen’s jobs while building fish stocks. Theresa Peterson, the Kodiak outreach coordinator for AMCC says they will use the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak City Council has postponed a vote on a proposed ordinance that would raise the sales tax rate and cap. At last night’s meeting the council voted unanimously to move the vote to June 14th to allow more time for city staff and the council to adjust the FY 13 budget and to look for more ways …

Coming up this week: the damage to Ocean Beauty’s dock in Petersburg won’t keep them from packing fish this summer. A fisherman’s luck turns from bad to worse in Sitka, and teaching kids about halibut. We had help from KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein in Petersburg and KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce will be receiving an award for its yearly clean up efforts – the most recent of which was last Saturday. ALPAR, Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling, will be presenting the award, along with a number of others to organizations and individuals around the state, at its annual awards banquet tonight in Anchorage. …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak’s State Senator Gary Stevens spent over a decade in local government. He was this week’s guest on Talk of the Rock and host Jay Barrett asked the Senator what he thought of the proposed sales tax increase in the City of Kodiak. Stevens said that as a citizen he applauds the council for tackling such a difficult …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski took the opportunity during a Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing yesterday to express her condolences to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp over the deaths of two men last month at the ComSta (com-stay) here in Kodiak. "I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the very difficult situation the men and …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT A 60-day public review period on the Kodiak Island Borough’s development code is coming to an end and the borough is making one last push to get more input. The borough’s development code was developed in the late sixties and early seventies and hasn’t been updated since. Duane Dvorak is an associate planner for the borough’s Community Development …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens is back in town after the state legislature finally wrapped up, and he dropped by KMXT to be on Talk of the Rock yesterday. For a second year in a row, the session was marked by a deep divide between the Senate and the House over oil taxes.