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{audio}images/stories/mp3/4_dam_pool_2_may.mp3″] Scott Says Deal Should Be Done By The End Of This Year Kodiak Electric Association President and CEO Darron Scott just returned from the Four Dam Pool Power Agency meeting in Wrangell. The agency is working on a restructuring plan that would allow KEA to purchase the Terror Lake Hydroelectric plant for 38-million dollars. Scott says the meeting was …

{audio}images/stories/mp3/shipwrecks_24_april.mp3″] Museum Presents Tastes And Tales Of The Sea VI Casey Kelly/KMXT Lisa Polito/KMXT The Kodiak Maritime Museum will present a talk this weekend about a pair of shipwrecks that occurred in Alaska during the first half of the 20th Century. It’s part of the museum’s annual Tastes and Tales of the Sea fundraising dinner. Mike Burwell will give the …

{audio}images/stories/mp3/filipino_vets_pass_24_april.mp3″] Bill Now Heads To US House The United States Senate Thursday (today) passed a bill to expand veterans’ benefits, including a provision to restore full U.S. veterans’ status to all Filipino World War II vets. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens championed the measure, along with Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka of Hawaii. In a statement read into the Senate …

If you’ve been down Mill Bay Road near Safeway anytime this week, you’ve probably noticed the construction going on at the old, dormant KFC building. It’s part of the long-rumored plans of local Subway mogul Dan Rohrer to bring a joint Taco Bell-KFC to Kodiak. (Photo by Casey Kelly/KMXT). {audio}images/stories/mp3/taco_bell-kfc_23_april.mp3″]

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Rick Pillans and the staff of Threshold Recycling Services received a cash award from the US Department of Agriculture Tuesday, as part of the agency’s celebration of Earth Day. (Photo by Fred Hawley/KMXT).

Bob Hatcher (left) is honored by Kodiak Electric Association Board Chairman Cliff Davidson at Monday night’s 66th annual membership meeting. In the background is Hatcher’s grandson, Tyler Terrel. Hatcher is leaving the board after 33 years, during which the Terror Lake hydroelectric plant came on board and KEA started its wind power project. For the full story, click here . …