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Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Bears continue to be a hot button issue in Kodiak, as evident by the hour long discussion Kodiak Island Borough Assembly members had about them during last night’s work session. The assembly heard from various community members that have dealt with the problem over the last few weeks including police officers, local residents and Alaska Department of Fish …

Coming up this week: There are more questions than answers at the state’s Chinook Salmon Symposium this week, the fate of foreign cannery workers is still up in the air, and Senator Begich issues a challenge to the makers of Xtra Tufs. We had help this week from KSKA’s Ellen Lockyer in Anchorage.

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Baranov Museum is slated for some changes in the coming year. Katie Oliver is the executive director for the museum and joined KMXT’s Talk of the Rock on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming exhibit redesign. “Well this is a project that we’ve been talking about for several years, but we wanted to finish up a lot of …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council got one step closer to finalizing the state legislative priorities Tuesday night during its work session. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski said four projects have made the priority list, but one project may show up later depending on how elections go in November. Currently, Monashka Bay pump house improvements are first on the list. Kniaziowski …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council will hold a regular meeting tonight (Thursday) in the borough assembly chambers. On the agenda is a vote on the prioritized state capital improvements program list. The city will also vote on accepting the compensation and classification report detailing how competitive city salaries are with similar jobs across the nation. The Kodiak Island Borough …

Jay Barrett/KMXT There were noticeably fewer foreign students working in Alaska salmon processing facilities this past season. That’s because of uncertainty that surrounded the student guest worker program known as the J-1 Visa. The state department had threatened to end the program abruptly during the months leading up to the salmon season, which did not give processors enough lead time …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The Kodiak City Council met for a work session last night and talked at length about the proposed bike path from downtown Kodiak to Deadman’s Curve. The project received legislative funding in 2011 for $384,000 that would match a city contribution, but this was when the estimated cost of the project was somewhere around $2.9 million. City Manager …

Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Between her role as language manager at the Alutiiq Museum and as assistant professor of Alutiiq language and culture at Kodiak College, April Laktonen Counceller is very busy. Now she can add another title to her list as a newly appointed member of the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council. It was created by Governor Sean Parnell, …