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Jay Barrett/KMXT As we mentioned last week, Kodiak’s recycling center, Threshold Services, has plans for expansion. A large drive-through structure will be put up at the back of the building on Von Sheele Way. And though it’s a little behind schedule, Threshold Executive Director Ken Reinke says it is coming along, and should be open in the spring. Once it …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Fewer Kodiak brown bears were taken during the fall hunting season than in previous years, a situation that is being attributed to a cold fall that sent a lot of bears to den early. The fall bear season runs Oct. 25 to Nov. 30. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game records, 59 bears were taken in …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce is putting on its first “Santa Run” tomorrow (Saturday). It’s a 5-kilometer fun run, with, as the chamber’s Joe Bailor says, a holiday twist. He encourages participants to dress up as Santa, Mrs. Claus, elves, reindeer or any other Christmas character and come out and run for charity. The $10 suggested donation will …

Maggie Wall/KMXT The problem of parking downtown near the processing plants took up much of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s time during last night’s regular meeting. The assembly sat as a Board of Adjustment in an appeal of a recent planning and zoning commission decision to deny a local seafood processor a variance to have fewer parking spots than required …

Maggie Wall/KMXT If you were listening to last night’s broadcast of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting you may have heard a procedure that was out of the ordinary. During the appeal regarding parking at the Pacific Seafoods plant on Shelikof Street, the assembly moved to adjourn into a closed session to consider its decision. The motion, however, failed. Alaska’s …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Meeting Packet, including Agenda The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will sit as a board of adjustment on a request for fewer off-street parking spots during tonight’s regular meeting. John Whiddon, representing Pacific Seafoods is appealing a September ruling by the planning and zoning commission that denied a variance to require fewer parking spots associated with the processor which …

Coming up this week: A judge rules against Kodiak processors in Rockfish suit; AquaBounty’s finances are getting shaky; more cuts could be coming to your halibut catch; and the Bristol Bay sockeye run is forecast to be lower than usual. All that, and the Deadliest Paycheck is smaller for Alaskans. We had help from KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki in Petersburg, and …

Maggie Wall/KMXT Jay Barrett/KMXT In a series on the proposed composting project using sludge from the city’s waste water treatment plant, we have brought you the perspective from the organizer of the ad hoc group opposed at putting the project at Middle Bay. Today, we hear Kodiak City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski’s perspective. She weighed in on the Kodiak compost controversy …