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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Today’s guests are Kate Wynne who is a marine mammal specialist at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center and Stacey Studebaker, the project coordinator for the Kodiak Gray Whale Project. We’ll be talking about Whale Fest and more. Here’s a short video of Stacey’s experience petting gray whales in Mexico. {youtube}UTT1igD7nsg{/youtube}

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska State Legislature is in the last week of the session, and there are many issues still unresolved that would affect Kodiak directly – namely education funding, the capital budget and a proposed general obligation bond. Among other items included in the Senate’s Capital Budget released over the weekend, there is about $2.5 million allotted for two …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s Senior Center director has received a prestigious award for her decades of work for Kodiak’s elderly. Pat Branson is the recipient of the Founder’s Award, which is given to one person each year by the National Council on Aging and the National Institute of Senior Centers. Branson received the award in person at the annual conference in …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Kodiak High School’s baseball team is six weeks into their two month pre-season. KMXT’s Jennifer Canfield visited the team at practice yesterday and produced this postcard. She spoke with Alec Eastman, a senior on the varsity team. Eastman has played baseball for close to 10 years but this year just found a new favorite sport. The Bears baseball …

Jay Barrett/KMXT As road conditions on the Chiniak Highway continue to deteriorate, the Alaska Department of Transportation says there’s not much they can do at the moment. Randy Vanderwood, Chief of Maintenance and Operations for the DOT’s Central Region, says there’s not a lot of money in its budget to do repairs after such a harsh winter.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s Trevor Dunbar, running in his first track and field season for the Oregon Ducks, won the 5,000 meters at Saturday’s Pepsi Invitational in Eugene by a wide margin. His time of 13-minutes 51.79-seconds was 12 seconds ahead of second-place teammate Chris Kwiatkowski. The pair led the Ducks to the Invite’s win over the defending national champion Texas …

Jay Barrett/KMXT kodiak_v_palmer_friday 93.73 Kb kodiak_v_palmer_saturday 88.53 Kb The Kodiak High School Bears swept the weekend’s events against Palmer and Port Lions on a Baranof Park track that had just recently been cleared of up to a foot of ice and snow. The Kodiak girls won with 34 points Friday, to Palmer’s 29 and Port Lion’s 18. Saturday, it was …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The State Department of Transportation has put weight restrictions on commercial vehicles traveling Kodiak roads, effective Thursday. On paved roads maintained by the state, the limit is 75 percent of the vehicle’s legal axel load. That includes East and West Rezanof Drive, the Pasagshak Highway and most of the Chiniak Highway. On gravel roads maintained by the state, …