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Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Advisory board interviews, a review of finances, discussion about the Baranof Park improvements and plans for the new library made for a full agenda at last night’s Kodiak City Council work session. Finance Director Mary Monk presented the city’s balance sheets at the meeting. She says that while revenues are steady, costs are rising. Monk says FY 2012 …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game yesterday (Tuesday) released a final report on the fatal attack by wolves on a Chignik Lake teacher nearly two years ago. Thirty-two-year-old Candice Berner was attacked on March 8th, 2010, as she was jogging near the village on the Alaska Peninsula. Subsequently, eight wolves were shot or trapped in the area. …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The International Pacific Halibut Commission’s 2011 interim meeting was last week in Seattle. Left unsettled is what to do about 2012 quotas. At the heart of the issue is whether the harvest model the commission has been using to set past catches is reliable. The numbers of dead fish just aren’t adding up. The current model asks for …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak Electric Association’s president will be one of the speakers tomorrow at a wind power presentation held in Anchorage and available for online viewing. Darron Scott is one of three presenters at the Wind Power in Alaska seminar presented by the Renewable Energy Alaska Project, according to Stephanie Nowers, the spokesperson for the project.

Dennis Knagin. Photo by Sven Haakanson/Alutiiq Museum Jennifer Canfield/KMXT Afognak elder, community leader and language teacher Dennis Knagin passed away last Tuesday. He was 81. Dennis Knagin leaves behind his wife Julie, sister Thayo Brandal, his children, 20 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. The memorial will take place today (Monday) at 1 p.m. at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral. The graveside service …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum is embarking on another book project. This one will focus on the old village of Karluk and the museum’s extensive collection of artifacts from there. The museum’s deputy director, Amy Steffian, says the planning and manuscript for the book is being funded by a $49,600 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, which …

Bristol Bay double-ender, ca. 1920s. Photograph courtesy of the Pilot Point Tribal Council, Ace Griechen Collection. Jay Barrett/KMXT What may very well be the last intact Bristol Bay double-ender on Kodiak Island is looking for a new home. The boat is owned by Leigh and Kip Thomet, and they are planning to move it from where it sits in Bell’s …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT An ordinance concerning the 2012 budget took center stage at Thursday night’s Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting. At Tuesday’s work session assemblymembers discussed why items that had not been voted on were included in the proposed budget. The main contention was $500,000 that had been appropriated for the Baranof Park improvements project. The borough and the city of …