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Jay Barrett/KMXT We’ve heard a lot about potential radiation danger from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactor, mostly from two sources: scientists whose job it is to measure these things, and social media that is flooded with dire, unsubstantiated warnings of doom. There is a concern in Alaska – but it’s not about being irradiated. It’s the danger of public perception, of …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A downed tree left many Monashka Bay residents without power for about an hour Sunday afternoon. Around 2:30 p.m. a Kodiak Electric Association customer was attempting to fell a tree when it dropped on a power line on Lakeview Drive. KEA President and CEO Darron Scott said the customer called KEA’s 24-hour dispatch to report the incident and …

Mike Mason/KDLG Walmart announced Friday that they will continue to stock salmon products from most of the large seafood processors that operate in Alaska. Previously Walmart had announced that they would only accept salmon products that carry the Marine Stewardship Council label of sustainability. Since most of the large seafood processors that operate in Alaska withdrew their support for MSC …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT After about two years with the Kodiak Daily Mirror, general assignment reporter Nicole Klauss has decided to say goodbye to the daily publication, and Kodiak. Klauss left Kodiak on Friday, but KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs caught up with her before then to learn about her time in Kodiak and with the Mirror. Klauss will begin a new job in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School girls basketball team continues its winning streak and has extended its perfect record into Northern Lights Conference play. The Bears swept the Kenai Kardinals over the weekend. Friday, Kodiak was victorious 61-to-25, and followed that up on Saturday with a 45-to-15 win. The Bears had a 25-to-5 lead at halftime. On Friday, Hannah Wandersee …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT This Sunday a group of Kodiak’s male and female vocal enthusiasts will put on a winter song concert. Jenny Stevens has been directing her male vocal group, the Alpha Singers, for about five years. “There’s between 10 and 12 guys. They get together every night and sing their hearts out and have a lot of fun. As one …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT A handful of Kodiak projects will be sent to Washington D.C. in the near future. During last night’s city council meeting the council unanimously approved the city’s prioritized federal capital improvements program and issues list, essentially the city’s wish list of sorts for federal funding. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski said she spoke with the city’s D.C. lobbyist, Brad …

Coming up this week, sportsfishing interests in Soldotna are not giving up on their efforts to force a vote to ban setnets in Cook Inlet, there’s more quota for Southeast halibut fishermen, but less elsewhere, and a breakthrough in excluders for trawl nets might save more salmon. All that, and, when is a pollock a cod? Kinda… now – we’ll …