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Jay Barrett/KMXT In the last of our series of interviews with the three candidates seeking to replace Representative Gabrielle LeDoux in the State House, Jay Barrett talks today with Democrat Dave Kaplan. Kaplan has been in Kodiak since 1988, and is a graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is a filmmaker and a partner in Camera-Q Productions. Kaplan …

Jay Barrett/KMXT This week KMXT is airing interviews with the three candidates vying to represent Kodiak in the Alaska State House. Wednesday, Jay Barrett spoke with Andy Lundquist, and Friday we’ll air an interview with Dave Kaplan, both Democrats. Today, Jay speaks with the only Republican in the race, Alan Austerman. He is a lifelong Kodiak resident, and fished commercially …

Casey Kelly/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Board of Education meets tonight for a special meeting and work session. The special meeting is mostly to approve teacher contracts. But the real action will happen behind closed doors when board President Betty Odell calls an executive session to discuss appointing someone to the vacant seat previously held by Peggy Tuttle, who resigned …

Casey Kelly/KMXT From KMXT in Kodiak, this is the Alaska Fisheries Report. Coming up this week…

Mary Donaldson/KMXT The Kodiak Women’s Resource and Crisis Center has been serving abused women and children on Kodiak Island since 1982. It now has a Spanish speaking advocate to help the immigrant community access its many services. Mary Donaldson has more.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Alaska State Troopers are investigating a fight aboard a fishing boat in Izhut Bay this (Wednesday) morning that left two men injured – one bad enough that he needed to be flown out for treatment. Izhut Bay is off the southeast coast of Afognak Island. A Coast Guard helicopter arrived on the scene just before 10 a.m. …

Mary Donaldson/KMXT Forty-eight-year-old Zbigniew Zdzieszynski, (zuh-BIG-nyehv zuh-jeh-SHIN-ski) a Polish man, was making a pilgrimage to the Saint Herman Holy Site on Spruce Island last weekend when he was robbed and assaulted by three Russians. Zdzieszynski was stranded at Pestrikoff beach on Spruce Island, when Dustin Fraser and his skipper Dean Wilson discovered him while they were checking their gill nets …