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Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School boys track and field team dominated the competition at the Region III championships over the weekend up in Palmer. The Bears racked up 120 team points to Skyview’s 80 and Wasilla’s 76. Jordan Fogel took first in the 400 meters, Cole Christiansen won the 1,600, and Levi Thomet was first in the 3,200 meters, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s Trevor Dunbar collected one medal and helped the Oregon Ducks to the Pac-12 Track and Field Championship yesterday in Eugene. Dunbar, a sophomore running in his first season at Oregon, placed third in a very close finish of the 1,500 meters, just one-half second behind the winner with a time of 3-minutes 37.55-seconds. In the 5,000 meter …

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 …