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Marina Cummiskey/KMXT This Thursday will be the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Kodiak in 1964. There will be many activities occurring around Kodiak this week to commemorate those historic events, including the grand opening of a new exhibit at the Baranov Museum. KMXT’s news intern, Marina Cummiskey, has more. Anjuli Grantham, the curator of …

Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO It’s been 25 years today (Monday) since the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground, spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil in Prince William Sound. Around the Capitol Building, the memories for many are still fresh, as Jeremy Hsieh found out. Twenty-five years ago, Marta Lastufka saw a puzzling ill omen. She was at a party where a …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School girls basketball team capped off a perfect season Saturday evening by winning the Alaska Large School State Championships. The Kodiak Bears beat the Colony Knights 65-41 in the final game, to finish the year 27-and-0. The last time Kodiak High School had a state basketball championship was 2001, when the boys played an undefeated …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Play continued early today for the Kodiak High School boys basketball team. Yesterday, the Bears kept it close against top-seeded West Anchorage, though lost 44-37. That sent them to the losers bracket game at 9:45 this morning against number-four Thunder Mountain, which fell in the first round to number-five Colony. The Falcons, who the Bears lost to in …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak students interested in learning more about PreMed programs offered through the University of Alaska Anchorage will have a chance to do so this weekend. The 9th annual Alaska PreMed Summit will be videoconference from UAA at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center on Saturday from 9 a.m. until around 4 p.m. Brian Himelbloom is an associate …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary recently selected its winners for the Kids Don’t Float poster contest. This was the third annual poster contest for Kodiak’s auxiliary, which accepts artwork from elementary school students and awards prizes for each grade level, plus a grand prize overall winner. Hannah Deal, a fifth grader at East Elementary …

Jay Barrett/KMXT It was a split decision for Kodiak High School Bears basketball teams at the 4A State Championship Tournament yesterday. The bottom-seeded Kodiak boys kept it close, but couldn’t hold off top-seeded West Anchorage. Meanwhile, the number-one seeded Kodiak girls had an up and down game, but prevailed over Dimond through tough defense. The Lady Bears started strong, building …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The off-hand comments of an enlisted Coast Guardsman on a public Facebook page about Kodiak have landed him in hot water with his superiors at Coast Guard Base Kodiak. In a post on Friends of Kodiak regarding Native land access restrictions Petty Officer Brandon Upchurch made derogatory comments toward Alaska Natives and claimed he accesses Native land despite …