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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Local gardening columnist Marion Owen and Threshold Recycling Executive Director Ken Reinke are today’s guests. We’ll talk about why recycling and composting on Kodiak is so important.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Local gardening columnist Marion Owen and Threshold Recycling Executive Director Ken Reinke are today’s guests. We’ll talk about why recycling and composting on Kodiak is so important.

Jay Barrett/KMXT At a recent joint meeting of the Kodiak City Council and the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, their shared fisheries advisor, Denby Lloyd, spoke about the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting scheduled for Kodiak in early June. He suggested the members of both bodies make a point to reach out to and talk with the fish council members.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Fishing vessel owners have a lot to be prepared for in 2013. Along with sweeping changes to NOAA’s observer program, in 2010 Congress passed extensive new safety regulations as part of the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act. Some of those regulations still need to be finalized and fishermen will be invited to participate in the drafting process. Several of …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Last summer four United States Senators- including Alaska’s Mark Begich- founded the Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus. Earlier this month Senator Begich visited Kodiak and talked briefly about how he and his colleagues are working to adapt U.S. travel visa policies to a changing world economy.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The amount budgeted for phase one of the Baranof Park improvements project is just a few thousand dollars more than the winning bid. Kodiak City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski told the Kodiak City Council and the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly last week that a change to locally-sourced rock dropped the cost estimate significantly, which brought it in just under …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Marine Highway System is adding a new stop to its schedule this week. The Spruce Island village of Ouzinkie, which for years has watched the ferry Tustumena sail right past town as it makes runs between Kodiak and Port Lions, will get service starting Friday.

Jay Barrett/KMXT "World Book Night" came a little early to Kodiak today. The multi-nation effort to boost reading by giving away free books to the public happened in these parts from 10 a.m. to noon. World Book Night is taking place in 6,000 communities in the United States, as well as in Germany, and England, where it was founded in …