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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Lions Club and FairWind Players are teaming up again this year to bring dinner theater to Kodiak. Today’s guests are Bob Brodie from the Lions Club, Jarod Griffin and Pat Szabo with FairWind Players and Ben Kerkenschlager and Christina Leithead from the Kodiak High School Jazz Band.

Jay Barrett/KMXT During a press conference Monday morning in Juneau, House Majority Leader Alan Austerman, along with Representatives Bill Thomas and Anna Fairclough, spoke about the governor’s $8-million appropriation request for the Alaska Aerospace Corporation. Austerman raised the specter of shutting down the state-owned enterprise if enough money to sustain it cannot be found.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Last fall the Alaska Harbor Observation Network installed monitoring equipment in Kodiak’s harbors. The equipment will provide valuable data to the Pier 3 wave study and will establish an historical baseline that scientists can use in the future. Establishing and maintaining coastal monitoring stations is not cheap. Currently the network is represented only in Kodiak and Seward, but …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The pairings are out for Alaska High School’s version of March Madness. The Northern Lights Basketball Tournament starts on Thursday in Wasilla. The Lady Bears are the No. 2 seed from the North Division – despite being the furthest south team – and will face the South’s No. 3 team, the Homer Mariners, a team Kodiak dominated this …

Jay Barrett/KMXT On Thursday night the Kodiak City Council approved the next step in replacing Pier 3, the cargo dock leased to Horizon Lines. Scientists at Texas A-and-M University will build a scale model of Kodiak’s waterfront and use data collected by monitors to conduct a study of the wave action at the dock. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said the …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Monitoring equipment that was installed in Kodiak’s harbors last fall will play an integral role in the Pier 3 project study. The equipment will not only provide valuable information about water temperature and pressure to the Pier 3 wave study, it will also establish a baseline for Kodiak’s harbors. Baseline data is very important to scientists and has …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School Bears went 3-for-4 in the last weekend of regular season basketball play against the Palmer Moose. The Lady Bears split with the Moose up in the Valley, but Kodiak won the game that counted, which earned them the number two seed in the upcoming Northern Lights Conference Championships. The conference games are on Fridays, …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaskans could lose out on nearly $6 million if they don’t claim their share by April 17th. The IRS announced yesterday that about 5,800 residents who qualified for a refund in 2008 didn’t file their taxes. While there’s no penalty for not filing if you’re owed a refund, the money becomes property of the U.S. Treasury after three …