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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, …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted last night to increase the price on a five-year-old contract for permitting and design of the proposed leachate treatment plant. The contract with CH2MHill was first written up in 2007 with a price tag of $392,599. Over a million dollars has been added to the contract since it was first drafted. Last …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaska’s largest fisheries trade show starts next week here in Kodiak. This is the 32nd year for ComFish. It’s grown from being part of Crab Fest and eventually outgrew its space at the armory and the Coast Guard base. This year the trade show will be at the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. Kodiak Chamber of Commerce Executive Director …

Water spouts rise from the Gulf of Alaska as the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Anacapa gets the range of the drifting and abandoned Japanese shrimper Ryou-un Maru. After two rounds of shelling, the derelict was sunk. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen Casey Kelly/KTOO, Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska, Jay Barrett/KMXT At the end of this story, KMXT …