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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT As the temperature hopefully starts warming up in the next few weeks, some folks might take to Kodiak’s roads on two wheels, rather than four. For those looking to get some biking in this year, be it recreationally, or simply to get from point A to point B, there will be a community bike clinic on Saturday at …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Next winter folks will have to pay a small fee to use the ice rink at Baranof Park. That was one of a handful of fee changes and additions the Kodiak City Council discussed during its regular meeting last week. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said the fee will be similar, if not identical, to what people are charged …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School Bears baseball team swept arch-rival Homer over the weekend at Baranof Park. On Friday, the Bears racked up 10 runs in the first one-and-a-third inning on the way to a 17-0 blanking of the Mariners. Austin Frick had four runs on three-for-three hitting. Jakob Arnold no-hit Homer in the mercy-rule-shortened four-inning game. On Saturday, …

Now that the jury has returned a guilty verdict against James Wells in the Coast Guard CommSta murder trial, Nicola Belisle, the widow of retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle, said she finally felt free to comment on the shooting deaths of her husband and co-worker Petty Officer First Class James Hopkins on April 12, 2012. She spoke with KMXT’s …

The Associated Press/Jay Barrett/KMXT A federal jury in Anchorage today (Friday) convicted James Wells of murder in the shooting deaths of two of his co-workers at Coast Guard communications station Kodiak two years ago. Wells, 62, was charged in the 2012 shooting deaths of Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle. Wells …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal jury in Alaska has convicted James Wells of murder in the shooting deaths of two of his co-workers at Coast Guard communications station Kodiak. The jury returned its verdict afternoon Friday in the case of the 62-year-old Wells. He was charged with killing Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief …

Jay Barrett/KMXT and Lisa Phu/KTOO Cruise ship season will start late here this year, as the Holland American Line ship the Volendam skipped Kodiak today (Friday). Citing poor weather in the northern Gulf of Alaska, the 778-foot ship went straight to Juneau on its repositioning cruise from the Far East. The Volendam is carrying 1,200 passengers. The in-cruise course change …

Cowboy Poet Ron McDaniel is one of the featured performers at Saturday’s Fishermen Out Loud. Jay Barrett/KMXT Fishermen getting a little loud on a Saturday night in port isn’t all that unusual, but this week, they’ll be getting loud in verse, as Kodiak hosts Fishermen Out Loud, the premier Fishermen Poet Gathering north of Astoria, Oregon. Kodiak Maritime Museum Executive …