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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will vote tomorrow on the minimum level of funding for education. After $854,000 in cuts, the Kodiak Island Borough School District is hoping that the borough will fund to the $10.3 million cap. The school district’s budget is about a half million more than last year’s though- as school officials say- it’s not …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT This week’s guests are Kodiak Island Borough School District Superintendent Stewart McDonald and School Board President Melissa Borton. They will discuss this year’s education budget and potential cuts.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT This week’s guests are Kodiak Island Borough School District Superintendent Stewart McDonald and School Board President Melissa Borton. They will discuss this year’s education budget and potential cuts.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Rural post offices across the country are off the chopping block as part of new plan proposed by the U.S. Postal Service last week. Instead of mass closures, the Postal Service has proposed to cut hours at over 13,000 locations. Over 90 locations in Alaska could see their hours cut; four of those are in the Kodiak area. …

Jay Barrett/KMXT A relatively rare virus in Alaska is being looked at as the cause to an unusually high number of premature births among Steller Sea Lions around Kodiak Island. Marine mammal specialist Kate Wynne, with the University of Alaska’s Marine Advisory Program, says she found four dead pups while on a routine trip to sea lion haulouts this spring.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Governor Sean Parnell signed both the state operating budget and the state capital projects budget yesterday afternoon, and like much of the state, Kodiak did not have projects vetoed. In fact, of the $66-million vetoed by the governor, $50-million of that was for the Judicial Retirement Trust Fund. The combined budgets total about $12-billion – $9-billion to run …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Today is National Peace Officers Memorial Day, as proclaimed by President Barack Obama. U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff today, and Governor Sean Parnell has ordered state flags to do the same. In addition, Parnell declared May 11-18 as Law Enforcement Memorial Week. Nationally, 158 police officers were killed in the line of duty during 2011, and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The State of Alaska released its winter ferry schedule on Friday, and there will be some significant changes to service to and from Kodiak because the ferry Tustumena will be out of service for nearly six months. In the meantime, as Marine Highway spokesman Jeremy Woodrow in Juneau explains, the ferry Kennicott will try to pick up the …