KMXT 100.1 FM Public Radio in Kodiak, Alaska

Coming up this week, the halibut season is underway now, and we get a little refresher on the regulation changes for 2014; the herring GHL in Sitka has been reduced, and what’s a fishing town supposed to do when it’s told to diversify its economy? We had help from KCAW’s Rachel Waldholz in Sitka, and KFSK’s Angela Denning in Petersburg.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Last week the Kodiak Public Library Association held their annual meeting, the first one since the new public library opened in December. Association Chair Kaia Henrickson said the meeting included some changes to the association’s board of directors, including the election of four new members. “Barbara Anthony, Jan Chatto, Michelle Griffin and Chastity Starrett to replace three members …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Even though the income tax deadline is over a month from now, it’s never too early to get started on your return. But for those flummoxed by forms, riled by ‘rithmatic or possessed by procrastination, an Anchorage non-profit is here in Kodiak the rest of this week to help. “All this is put together by a non-profit corporation, …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The search is on for a mariner who fell overboard from the fishing vessel Seaker, about 10 miles northwest of Unimak Island Wednesday morning. Nearby Good Samaritan vessels and a Coast Guard helicopter from Cold Bay have been searching the area where the man went in, and the cutter Alex Haley was reported en route to assist. The …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT On Monday, the National Archive and Records Administration, also known as NARA, announced that it would be closing its facility in Anchorage and shipping all of the records housed there to Seattle. The decision caused quite a stir across the state and was devastating news to Anjuli Grantham, the curator of collections at the Baranov Museum. “And it’s …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough School District’s Board of Education met for a work session last night and heard about a handful of budget scenarios the district might be looking at for FY 2015. Basically, the school district doesn’t know how much money will be coming its way from either the state or the borough, so Superintendent Stewart McDonald …

Mike Mason/KDLG Both of Kodiak’s state legislative delegation spoke at last week’s Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference economic summit in Anchorage. KDLG’s Mike Mason was there and filed this report.

Jay Barrett/KMXT A Kodiak seafood processor has been fined over $200,000 after pleading guilty to illegally dumping 40 pounds of ammonia into the city’s sewer system in 2011. That announcement Tuesday from U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler in Anchorage. North Pacific Seafoods chief engineer Bill Long is scheduled to be arraigned in state court on Friday on a charge of violating …