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On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses homelessness and homeless resources in Kodiak with the Brother Francis Shelter: Executive Director Susan Smith, Director of Resources Dana Myers, and Supervisor Scott Hoy. Listen here:

Former Kodiak Island Borough School District Superintendent Larry Ledoux will be a new addition to the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly. LeDoux was the frontrunner by several hundred votes even before the borough’s canvass last week, and received the most votes of all the candidates running for a three-year term on the Assembly. Incumbent Jared Griffin was re-elected to serve another …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The “Tustumena Replacement Vessel” will be engineered to be a diesel/electric hybrid. Former State Senate President Ben Stevens has died while hiking near Seward. And there has been a break in one of four two-year-old missing persons cases in Fairbanks. Courtesy of the Alaska Department of TransportationA rendering of the Tustumena Replacement …

Kodiak Island Borough offices. (Photo by Kavitha George/KMXT) The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly has chosen a new borough manager. Assembly members unanimously voted during a special meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13 to offer the job to Elke Doom. Doom was one of four finalists the Borough interviewed for the position in early September.  She’s currently the interim manager of Royal …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kodiak City Council race has been decided. Boats blaze and sink in a Ketchikan harbor. And energy providers on the Kenai Peninsula strategize as future gas supplies become more unsure. Firefighting foam covers a sinking sailboat at Ketchikan’s Bar Harbor. (Courtesy of Gretchen O’Sullivan)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on the snow crab closure, KDLL’s Riley Board on the fish that makes fat bears fat, and a story from her colleague Sabine Poux on Cook Inlet closures ordered back open. The Silver Spray  

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Community members in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are fundraising for an all-gender restroom at Colony High School in Palmer. Two bridges on the Kodiak road system will get upgrades, thanks to federal transportation grants. And Alaska rapper Airjazz has a new album dropping tomorrow. Arias Hoyle AKA Air Jazz

Members of the state of Alaska’s Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention, or OSMAP will be in Kodiak on Thursday, Oct. 13 for a community discussion on addiction and opioid misuse. The state has seen a surge in the number of overdoses linked to the synthetic opioid fentanyl since the pandemic. That’s the case in Kodiak, too. There was …