Tag Archives: Kodiak Island

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility on Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation) Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Alaska Aerospace Corporation launched a subsidiary, Aurora Launch Services, which will focus on providing support for customers to launch vehicles with smaller satellite payloads into orbit. And, it will also be cheaper, says Craig Campbell, President and CEO of AAC, because they won’t …

Jency Martinez (left) and her mother, Maria Portillo work in their family food truck in Kodiak on June 9, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Food trucks are common in Anchorage and in other, bigger communities across Alaska but, for the most part, they are still rare in smaller places. One food truck in Kodiak is creating quite a stir, serving …

Food from Filipino American Friendship Day. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak residents celebrated Independence Day with their annual parade downtown Wednesday. Music blasted from a line of floats and people in the lineup threw candy to children, who scrambled in the streets to collect it. The parade included service members from Coast Guard Base Kodiak, local emergency services …

Whale carcass. (Photo Courtesy of Kathy Burek, Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services as authorized by NOAA’s Marine Mammal Stranding Program.) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Three dead gray whales washed up on two different Kodiak Island beaches recently. The strandings happened within the span of a week, said Mandy Migura, Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The …

Dennis Harris. (Photo Courtesy of Dennis Harris) By Daysha Eaton/KMXT Dennis Harris of Kodiak is running as a democrat to represent District 32, trying to unseat two-term incumbent Republican representative Louise Stutes. Harris says Alaska needs legislators who look at evidence and care about people. “A lot of people are doing things because they are partisan. They’re doing things because …

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility on Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation) An Anchorage Daily News story alleges that the state-owned rocket launch complex on Kodiak Island may have been involved in government waste and improprieties in awarding a contract. The aerospace corporation is owned by the state and runs the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska at Narrow Cape. It …

Classic Cars (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A group of classic car buffs have been visiting Kodiak this week in their historic vehicles. Jim Fredenhagen from Anchorage is among them. He owns a blue 1929 Model A Ford, which he explains has a very special horn. “Believe it or not, moose hate that horn. They take off when they hear that …

The Coast Guard is updating their water infrastructure at Base Kodiak, according to a facebook post on Monday, June 18. While staff upgrades the base drinking water system, some areas will experience water outages and boil water notices from June 25-27, according to the post and confirmed with Coast Guard officials. The impacts will vary based upon location. Information about the …

(Photo by Melody Ayres-Griffiths/Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Last year was not a good year for berries on Kodiak Island, to put it mildly. Low berry production was a bummer for human berry pickers. But the bad berry year also affected wildlife, including the island’s iconic brown bears that rely on the fruit to put on fat to survive the winter.   …

(Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A delegation from China is scheduled to visit Kodiak Island in July. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute will host the group, which plans to tour fish processing plants in Kodiak and Larsen Bay. The delegation will be in the United States from July 8-14, making stops in Seattle and Anchorage, but the majority of …