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Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough may push back its marijuana legislation deadline to give the district more time to figure out zoning issues: For instance, whether or not cultivation should be allowed within residential districts. That, along with the city’s marijuana legislation, is one big topic on the agenda of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Time is almost up for the City of Kodiak and Kodiak Island Borough to decide how marijuana businesses should look in their areas. The city council and borough assembly updated each other on their progress at their joint work session last week. Each body has a committee to advise it on regulation for marijuana business and cultivation. At …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak residents voted for the borough and city to explore possible consolidation, and that’s what members of staff and the elected bodies are doing. Borough Mayor Dan Rohrer updated the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council on their progress at a joint work session last week. He explained he, Borough Manager Michael Powers, City Mayor Pat …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Marijuana Task Force presented its recommendations on marijuana business and cultivation to the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly last week. The task force has been meeting regularly to come to an agreement on how marijuana sale might look within the borough, and this past Thursday at its work session the assembly heard the recommendations for …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is on the cusp of deciding whether it will agree to hold conservation easements to Termination Point and Long Island. The contracts would restrict development and otherwise protect the natural resources on the two Lesnoi-owned properties. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council together with the Great Lands Trust have come before the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT When he became borough mayor, Dan Rohrer left an open Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seat behind him, and the assembly has a number of applicants to choose from to fill that seat. Two of them ran for the positions that Scott Smiley and Matt Van Daele won at the recent election. They’re Ocean Beauty plant manager James Turner, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough has a new mayor. Assemblyman Dan Rohrer left his assembly seat in order to take over from Jerrol Friend, whose term expired this month and who had served as borough mayor since October 2013. Rohrer ran unopposed at the recent municipal elections and won 1,983 votes. At the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The borough and city’s marijuana advisory committees are making progress in determining what the sale of marijuana will look like in their areas. Representatives on both boards gave updates at the Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly joint work session Wednesday night. Then-assemblyman and borough mayor-elect Dan Rohrer is the co-chair on the Borough Marijuana Task …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alaska Wireless Network, a subsidiary of GCI, has dedicated about eight months to getting permissions to construct a telecommunications tower. That’s according to Community Development Director Sara Mason, who explained at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting Thursday night that the company needs a variance because the structure would exceed the 50 foot height limit. At …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A new borough mayor will take over following the election in October – it’ll be current Borough Assemblyman Dan Rohrer, who says he’ll exchange one position for another because he’s running unopposed. Rohrer grew up in Kodiak and has lived on island for most of his life. He bought Kodiak’s chain of two Subway restaurants soon after earning …