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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 …

Coming up this week, the fleet is on two-hour notice for Sitka herring, the halibut quota for CDQ fisheries are down this year, an explosion aboard a factory trawler takes the life of one crewman, and going for geoduck. We had help from KYUK’s Ben Matheson in Bethel, KUCB’s Lauren Rosenthal in Unalaska, KDLG’s Mike Mason in Dillingham, KRBD’s Leila …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The public can attend and testify by teleconference at: 1-866-560-5984, passcode: 12960066. The Kodiak and Aleutian Federal Subsistence Advisory Council is meeting today and tomorrow here in Kodiak. According to Carl Johnson with the Office of Subsistence Management in Anchorage, the meeting this year will be on fisheries topics. “Right now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School Bears basketball teams beginning state championship tournament play today. The Kodiak boys, seeded 8th, will face West Anchorage at 5:15 p.m., while the Lady Bears, the top-seeded and undefeated top-ranked team in the state, get the prime time game tonight at 8:45 against Dimond. You can watch the Bears during Alaska’s version of March …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last night the Kodiak City Council and Borough Assembly met for a joint work session and discussed Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management at length. In April the North Pacific Fishery Management Council will take up the bycatch issue, and try to develop some sort of management plan to help reduce it within the trawl industry. On Monday, …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It’s a fairly light agenda for the Kodiak Borough Assembly’s regular meeting tonight. First up is a series of proclamations, including Choose Respect and Women’s History Month. The assembly will also take a final look at its 2014 strategic plan and vote on whether or not to approve it. Also on tonight’s agenda is a resolution to approve …