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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Leading up to Christmas, the Kodiak Island Food Bank saw the number of families they serve weekly jump from around 30 to over 60. Alex Tsurikov is the executive director of the food bank. He says they were running low on most everything on Friday.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Starting today (Monday) Kodiak residents will be allowed to shoot off fireworks outside city limits. This is the first year for a borough ordinance that makes firework use legal only during certain times of the year.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Though the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting isn’t for two months, there’s only a few weeks to get nominations in for the board of directors election. There are three open seats, all for three year terms. They currently belong to Lindsey Knight, who is the board president, Don Rush, who cannot run this year because of term …

1. Fortune is the Queen of the World by Carl Orff 2. In the Meadows by Carl Orff 3. River by Franz Schubert 4. Trout by Franz Schubert 5. To Be Sung Upon the Water by Franz Schubert 6. In the Evening Glow by Franz Schubert

Kodiak fisherman Alexus Kwatchka shows one of the Japanese floats he collected near the island. It has likely been washed across the Pacific after the Japanese tsunami in March. Dave Kubiak photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT A local beach comber and a renowned oceanographer have found that Kodiak is already receiving some of the earliest arrivals of debris from the Japanese earthquake …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This year one Kodiak family turned their holiday light display into an action-packed musical show. Andy Crawley said he and his wife typically don’t even hang Christmas lights, but this year he saw a dancing light display online and wanted in on the action.

Jay Barrett/KMXT Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drafted legislation seeking to protect American fishermen from Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated, or I-U-U fishing. The Pirate Fishing Elimination Act was picked up and introduced by Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye and co-sponsored by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. During a recent meeting of the Senate Oceans Caucus, she spoke of the …