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Eighth-grader wants to spread inspiring message across the globe
Kodiak eighth-grader Alyssa Burnside is hoping that people will turn to the Internet on Tuesday to help her spread an inspiring message to every country across the globe. “Stand up, stay true, stand out,” is the message Burnside, 13, and other students at her online intermediate school, Williamsburg Academy, are hoping to share in a Wave to the World project. The point of the project is to see how many countries ...
Apr 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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This vacant lot on Mill Bay Road, seen Thursday morning, April 18, 2013, once held an apartment complex, but it could become the new headquarters of the Kodiak Electric Association under a plan expected to be unveiled Tuesday night at KEA's annual meeting. (James Brooks photo)
KEA will consider new HQ
Correction : The original version of this story incorrectly stated that KEA's annual meeting is Tuesday evening. It is Monday evening. Since 1940, the offices of the Kodiak Electric Association have occupied an unobtrusive building on Marine Way. Under a new proposal to be unveiled at KEA’s annual meeting next week, that could change. On the agenda for Monday night’s meeting: discussion of a new KEA headquarter...
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Borough will foot bill for complaint against assemblyman
Kodiak Island Borough Assemblywoman Louise Stutes had some harsh words for borough manager Bud Cassidy Thursday evening after it was revealed that the borough will foot the bill for an Alaska Public Offices Commission complaint against assemblyman Mel Stephens. “I am incensed, I am outraged, I cannot believe that kind of behavior,” she said. On April 1, borough attorney Cheryl Brooking attended an APOC hearing in ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whale Fest gets under way this weekend
Kodiak’s 17th annual cetacean celebration, Whale Fest, gets under way this weekend as Kodiak observes the return of gray whales to area waters. While orcas, or killer whales, are seen around Kodiak throughout the year, Eastern Pacific Gray Whales come to Kodiak only twice per year as part of the longest migration of any mammal on Earth. Their migration, which begins in the waters off Mexico and ends in the Arctic ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Borough sets staging base for KHS construction
When the Kodiak High School expansion and renovation project begins, work won’t be limited to just the high school site. On Wednesday night, the Kodiak Island Borough planning and zoning commission gave preliminary approval for a temporary storage lot to be built next to the Little League baseball fields at Dark Lake. The storage lot will be a marshaling yard for equipment and construction material and will genera...
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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A successful legislative strategy sends millions to Kodiak projects
In a year of austerity, Kodiak garnered funding for a slate of infrastructure projects thanks to a teamwork approach from its delegation to the Alaska Legislature. On Sunday, the Alaska Legislature adjourned after approving a $2.29 billion capital projects budget that includes $56 million in projects for House District 35, which includes all of the Kodiak Island Borough. That amount is down from last year’s record...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Russian delegation from the Kamchatka border guards poses on the helicopter deck of the Coast Guard cutter Munro on Monday, April 14, 2013 with Coast Guard Capt. Gerald Woloszynski, Capt. Melissa Rivera, Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo and Capt. Mark Cawthorn, commanding officer of the Munro. (Jacob Hauser photo/US Coast Guard)
Russian border guards make biannual visit to Kodiak
As the senior afloat command in Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro bears an important but less-known responsibility common among US warships: the role of diplomat. On Monday, Coast Guard Base Kodiak received a delegation of Russian officers from the Kamchatka Border Guard. Visitors included the commander of the border guard, Rear Admiral Sergei Scherbakov, and his staff. All came to meet Rear Admiral Thomas...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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New head chef Sean Corsi, second from right, stands in The Chart Room's kitchen with his team of chefs, from left: Christian Brackett, Joshua Catunao, Maurizio Alvareztostado, and Jaime Garcia Jr., on April 16. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Kodiak Inn introduces new line of chefs and a new menu
The Chart Room restaurant has a new team of chefs cooking up a new menu of items. Chef Sean Corsi arrived from Gustavus in December to be the head chef at the Kodiak Inn’s restaurant. Corsi has more than 20 years of cooking experience, and first started cooking when he was 15 years old. “My mom was supervisor at an upscale grocery store in Cleveland,” he said. “I started there in the seafood department and then ...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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A new sign outside Threshold Services, Inc. explains the only types of items that are now accepted at the recycling plant, in Kodiak on April 15. (Nicole Klauss photo)
After plastic prices fall, recycler limits drop-offs
A new policy at Kodiak’s household recycler limits the type of plastic it will accept. Threshold Services Inc. will now only accept No. 1 and No. 2 plastics, which are described as bottles and jugs with necks, such as water bottles or milk jugs. The plastic ID number is listed on the bottom of the bottle inside the triangular recycling symbol. Plastic grocery bags will also be accepted. Executive director Ken Re...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors and poster contest winners. Left to right, back: Todd Dorman, Marie Rice, Charles Dorman and Chris Flickinger. Front: Deborah Bitanga, grade category 10-12, 1st place Kodiak and Alaska State, Honorable Mention National and Rafael Bitanga, grade category 4-6, 1st place Kodiak and Alaska State, 2nd Place National.
Soil and water district announces poster winners
Kodiak students Deborah Bitanga and Rafael Bitanga earned first-place in the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual poster contest, for their posters depicting the theme “Soil to Spoon.” They also went on to place first in the Alaska Association of Conservation District State competition and place in the National Association of Conservation Districts competition. Rafael took second place nationally i...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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