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Mary Donaldson/KMXT The 11 and 12 year-old boys Little League all star team is up in Kenai playing for a spot in Anchorage’s district tournament. They won their first game Wednesday against Kenai, with a score of 7 to 3.

Casey Kelly/KMXT Many plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation were disappointed by the Supreme Court’s recent decision reducing punitive damages to 507-point-5 million dollars, or one-tenth of the original jury award. But while the amount won’t be what many were expecting or hoping for, financial planners say there’s still a need to start thinking about what to do …

Mary Donaldson/KMXT From KMXT in Kodiak, this is the Alaska Fisheries Report.

Mary Donaldson/KMXT One of Kodiak’s harbors is currently receiving upgrades, and they could be done by as early as next summer. Mary Donaldson has this update on the construction currently being done in Saint Herman Harbor.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Kodiak has put out another warning for residents of the city’s north end neighborhoods to keep an eye out for foraging bears. Kodiak wildlife biologist Larry Van Daele says about seven bears have been roaming the neighborhoods on the north end of town quite a bit lately. One sow with …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It didn’t take long for it to become apparent at last (Tuesday) night’s Kodiak City Council work session that there was little if any support for raising the tax on alcohol to help pay for the soaring costs of the new police station and jail.

Mary Donaldson/KMXT There’s a new traveling business in town that you may be seeing in your neighborhood on a nice day. They were close to KMXT’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon and Mary Donaldson caught up with them

A front-end loader dumps fresh asphalt into a paving machine’s hopper downtown at The Y intersection Tuesday afternoon. After more than a year, the road, with new medians and traffic patterns, is almost done. (KMXT photo by Jay Barrett )