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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak Chapter of the Pioneers of Alaska is circulating a petition that will ask the Kodiak City Council to bring the Crab Festival parade back downtown. The parade was moved to Mill Bay Road during the reconstruction of the Y two years ago and hasn’t return to downtown since. Joe O’Donoghue organized the petition. —          (Crab Fest …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kodiak City Fire Department is looking for more than (six-hundred-thousand dollars) $600,000 to replace a fire engine and an ambulance. The city abides by standards set by the municipal fire industry that say ambulances should be replaced every ten years and fire engines every 20 years. Engine 1, which isn’t operable, was due for replacement in 2006. …

0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 < ![endif]--> < ![endif]--> KMXT Staff A 27-year-old crewman on the Kodiak-based fishing vessel Captain Kidd was medevaced by the Coast Guard yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. The crewman broke his arm after it was caught in an anchor line. The Coast Guard in Anchorage was alerted at 1:42 p.m. An Air Station KodiakMH-60 Jayhawk helicopter responded …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Every year young people come to Alaska looking to make their fortune commercial fishing. However, many of them are woefully underprepared. Many can’t handle the conditions at sea or the long hours, or it’s just too tough for them. Former fishing boat captain Jonathan Allen has seen good greenhorns and bad during his years in the industry, and …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Leisnoi Corporation has finalized the approval of its new board of directors. The corporation’s board had been recalled in June and an interim board was elected. The previous board was accused of mismanagement and failing to communicate with shareholders. The interim board, which was confirmed on Wednesday, includes Jana Turvey, Shannon Johnson, Jeff Chester, Jay Baldwin and Debbie …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Local birders will be out in force again this weekend to do the second of two annual bird counts around Kodiak. The Narrow Cape and Kalsin Bay count will be on Saturday. After the recent Kodiak bird count, Rich Macintosh compiled the sighting reports brought in by the 61 volunteers, most of whom braved extremely inclement weather.

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Alaska Waste is teaming up with the local Boy Scouts Troop 626 to collect dead Christmas trees. The partnership and project came to fruition in less than 24 hours and will benefit both the borough landfill and the Boy Scouts.

Coming up this week: Gulf fixed gear fishermen get a surprise cod opening to end the year; it looks like there’ll be another herring fishery this spring in Behm Canal, and how sunlight makes spilled oil especially deadly to fish. We had help this year from: Rosemarie Alexander, Len Anderson, Tom Banse, Dan Bross, Jennifer Canfield, Libby Casey, Dave Donaldson, …