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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Silver fishing is hot in Kodiak. Alaska health professionals ask citizens to get the jab. A big storm is coming to the Southeast and Gulf of Alaska.

Lettuce growing at the farm in Old Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT This summer, the community of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island harvested vegetables and fruit from their farm in significant quantities for the first time. The agricultural experiment provided enough produce to sell at the local store. One employee and some seasonal helpers have overseen the …

Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by USFWS/Katrina Mueller) Managers expect Kodiak pink salmon to meet escapement goals although the harvest remains weak. The situation for sockeye salmon is much more dire. Some Kodiak-area river systems are performing better than others. Kodiak had its lowest sockeye harvest in 38 years this season. That’s according to ADF&G Research Biologist Kevin Schaberg. “It …

A C130 aircraft landed on the new runway extension in Old Harbor on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton / KMXT) Daysha Eaton / KMXT The village of Old Harbor held a ribbon cutting this week for an airport extension that has been in the works for six years. The project nearly doubles the length of the current …

A C-130 did a pratice landing on the new runway extension in Old Harbor on Monday, August 6. (Photo Courtesy of Old Harbor Native Corporation) Tuesday, August 7 is a big day for the Kodiak Island village of Old Harbor. The community is holding a ribbon cutting for an airport extension that has been in the works for five years. The …

Former launch. (Photo courtesy of AAC) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A successful launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation took place on Friday. That’s according to Craig Campbell, president and CEO of AAC. Campbell confirms that the company had their first successful commercial launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska late Friday afternoon, the end of the window to launch. It was the …

Plans for the Mill Bay AHFC development. The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation has two projects in the works in Kodiak. Daniel Delfino is the director of planning and program development at the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation. “Both of those properties, the first one, Mill Bay in 2017, and then Spruce Cape in 2018, went through a statewide competition and they …

Xin Lyu, general manager for a seafood import/export company and CEO for Shanghai Hollywin Frozen Food snaps photos at a weir on the Buskin River near Kodiak on July 11, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A delegation from China visited Kodiak Island this week with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, touring fish processing plants in Kodiak and Larsen Bay. …

An example of what the exhibit redesign could look like (Image Courtesy of Baronov Museum.) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak’s Baranov Museum has met their fundraising goal for their permanent exhibits redesign and facility upgrade project. Sarah Harrington, executive director of the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum, says the museum was awarded the final grant of $175,000 from the Rasmuson foundation on …

Dig Afognak camp on June 30, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT” ob The island of Afognak, near Kodiak, was devastated by the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, which scattered its indigenous people to other parts of Alaska and the Lower 48. Many lost touch with their culture and language. But today, Afognak descendants are making sure a new generation …