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Jay Barrett/KMXT Searchers are still looking for an Akhiok man reported missing Saturday night. According to the Alaska State Troopers, 20-year-old Brandon Phillips was last seen when he told people in the village he was planning on a hike earlier in the day. When he failed to return, a search was started at 10:30 Saturday night, organized by the Village …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Fans of the retired U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis have been holding their collective breath all weekend, hoping there might be a way to prevent the scrapping of the ship in Mexico. Documents were forwarded to members of the Storis Museum Saturday morning indicating the ship might contain too much hazardous material to be exported under the federal …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Halloween is Thursday and many Kodiak door steps are already littered with carved pumpkins, lighting up neighborhoods and enticing soon-to-be trick-or-treaters. But what do folks do with those pumpkins come November 1, when festivities turn toward Thanksgiving, and the ghoulish squash are no longer needed? A group of students at Kodiak College has a suggestion. Emily Abel is …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Two Kodiak schools were recently recognized as some of the highest performing public schools in the state. “Peterson Elementary and Chiniak School are both highest performing schools in their category and then Chiniak School is also a high progress school.” That’s Eric Fry, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development. Fry said the recognition …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT It was all business during the Kodiak City Council’s last meeting for more than a month. The council breezed through a dense agenda last night with little discussion or public comment. One item that did generate some dialogue was an ordinance that would create hours of operation for the city’s various parks, including Baranof and East Addition. The …

Coming up this week, federal workers are back to work, which means crab fishermen are, too. The government shutdown may impair research on an emerging fishery, and five well-prepared fishermen are safe after their boat burns in the Aleutian Islands. All that, plus, spawn-on-kelp; yeah, it’s exactly what it sounds like, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. We had …

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis in 2007 when it left Kodiak for the last time. The decomissioned cutter, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, will be towed to Mexico and cut up for scrap metal. US Coast Guard photo Jay Barrett/KMXT The one-time longest serving U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the former Queen of the Fleet, the …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The U.S. Coast Guard has a long tradition of Halloween happenings in Kodiak. For more than 30 years service members have put on elaborate haunted houses in various locations on base, and invited the community to fright and delight themselves in the festivities. Phillip Jordinelli is the operations officer at the Coast Guard Communication Station, also known as …