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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Recently departed Kodiak City Mayor Carolyn Floyd has been named to the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame. Floyd moved to Kodiak in 1955 with her husband, Joe. She helped start the Kodiak Community College and served as its president for 18 years. KCC’s library is named in her honor. She then became city mayor in 1993 and helped …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alutiiq 3SG, LLC has been awarded a 5-year contract with NASA’s Langley Research Center for just over $8.5 million. Alutiiq is a subsidiary of the Afognak Native Corporation. According to a press release, the Alaska Native Corporation will provide "transportation and delivery services, vehicle and equipment maintenance and fleet management, shipping and receiving, materials management and warehousing, equipment …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It’s been a while since KMXT has presented a concert, but this weekend, there will be two shows. Former Alaskan Frank Solivan has brought his bluegrass band "Dirty Kitchen" back to the state, and is making his last stop here in Kodiak Friday and Saturday nights. He knows many of Kodiak’s bluegrass community well and is looking forward …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly got some good news during the borough manager’s report at last night’s regular meeting. Rick Gifford announced that Kodiak Island School District Superintendent Stewart McDonald had received notice that the state would be reimbursing 70 percent of the $76 million price tag on the new high school, which translates to nearly $8 million …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Mary Guilas-Hawver has been named the new director of the Providence Kodiak Island Counseling Center. She says the counseling center offers a diverse array of services to meet the counseling needs of Kodiak residents. Guilas Hawver comes to the position with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in human services and a chemical dependency counselor certification.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The fishing vessel Kimberly is still hard aground on the Alaska Peninsula coast west of Kodiak Island. It washed ashore a week and a half ago in heavy icing conditions and winds reportedly gusting to 100 mph. All four crewmen had to spend the night on the beach as the storm prevented a Coast Guard helicopter from reaching …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Heavy slush driven by winds gusting to 60 mph whipped Kodiak yesterday, but surprisingly, there were only two brownouts and one outage in the Kodiak Electric system. That occurred at 11:30 yesterday morning in Middle Bay along the stretch between Salt Creek and the American River. It left about 160 KEA customers in Chiniak and Pasagshak without power …

Coming up this week, halibut is the fish du jour; there is already some fallout from Alaska salmon packers pulling out of the MSC certification program, and don’t ever try to pass of your dog salmon as a king. We had help this week from Fish Radio’s Laine Welch in Kodiak and KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg.