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Jay Barrett/KMXT Two men have been reappointed to the Alaska Housing Finance Board of Directors, including one from Kodiak. Marty Shuravloff is the executive director of the Kodiak Island Housing Authority, where he’s worked since 1992. He has previously served on the board of the National American Indian Housing Council and the Association of Alaska Housing Authorities. He was reappointed …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Yesterday KMXT told you all about a new project for Kodiak High School and Middle School students, one that partners them with NASA scientists to try and forecast earthquakes. The work is being done through Trillium Learning’s American Bridge Project, and brought the world’s first two Global Earthquake Forecasting System sensing platforms to Kodiak last month. One was …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT There’s a series of awards and declarations on the agenda for tonight’s Borough Assembly meeting. The governing body will acknowledge Coast Guard Appreciation Day and Fire Prevention Month, as well as honoring the employee of the quarter and administering a longevity award. Tonight’s meeting also marks the last for Assembly members Mel Stephens, Tuck Bonney, and Dave Kaplan. …

On today’s edition of Talk of the Rock, we’ll hear from the founders of the Kodiak District Parent-Teacher-Student Association, or PTSA. We’ll hear from Eric Linscheid, the president of the Kodiak Community Education Alliance, and vice president of the organization, Ron Gibbs.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Folks will have an opportunity to learn about early Alutiiq language learning this Thursday during a lecture at the Alutiiq Museum. Well before current language revitalization efforts, Russian colonists were some of the island’s first non-Native Alutiiq learners. According to a press release from the Alutiiq Museum, the language was solely oral for thousands of years, but with …

The first round-the-world voyage of the Russians brought Captain Lisianskii and Count Rezanov to Kodiak in 1804 and 1805. On board one of the vessels was an iron bust of Tsar Alexander I, the only object that still remains in Kodiak from this historic journey. But was it the Neva or the Nadezhda that carried this object? This episode departs …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Some of Kodiak’s local students are getting hands on experience in real world research these days. The Kodiak Island Borough School District has recently partnered with NASA and other organizations to help monitor earthquake forecasting sensors with the hopes of someday being able to predict when and where earthquakes might occur. Early Friday morning, a group of four …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The founders of the Kodiak District Parent-Teacher-Student Association, or PTSA, will be on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock Tuesday afternoon discussing their organization and what they hope to accomplish through the Kodiak Community Education Alliance. Ron Gibbs, himself a retired teacher, is the vice-president of the Kodiak Community Education Alliance, which is formed as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. He …