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Alutiiq Museum executive director resigns
The Alutiiq Museum is looking for a new executive director. On Thursday, the museum announced that Sven Haakanson Jr., had resigned as executive director of the museum to pursue new professional opportunities. “It’s just time to move on,” Haakanson said. “I think that the museum, we’re in a growing stage, and I think it’s a perfect time to move forward. I can’t thank everybody enough about how wonderful it’s been...

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Cod glut, lower demand hurts prices
A record cod quota halfway around the world is putting the hurt on Kodiak fishermen. In the Barents Sea, Norwegian and Russian fishermen are enjoying a quota of 1 million metric tons, but the resulting glut on world markets is driving prices downward. In addition, the European economic slump is hurting demand as the falling Euro makes imports more expensive. Alaska cod fillets, typically delivered to American mark...

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Kodiak harbor will reach out to CDQ groups
The Kodiak harbormaster’s office will reach out to the Bering Sea fishery’s Community Development Quota groups in an effort to bring more business to the harbor. The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) program allocates an annual percentage of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries to clusters of western Alaska villages. There are six major CDQ groups in the region. Many of the CDQ fishing vess...

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Survey crews work from the landing craft Polar Bear on March 29, 2013 next to Pier 3 as a fishing vessel leaves the port of Kodiak.
(James Brooks photo)

Drillers test the ground for new Pier 3
For the past two weeks, the landing craft Polar Bear has been moving cautiously around Pier 3 as hosts drillers punch holes into the seafloor below. Samples taken from those holes will be analyzed in an Anchorage lab, and the results will determine key aspects of the design of a new multimillion-dollar Pier 3. “This is probably pretty much one of the last physical visible things on site that will occur prior to mo...

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Salmon Camp director Kari Eschenbacher leads Salmon Camp attendees in an lesson looking for seabirds on Near Island in June 2012. Salmon Camp is among the programs that could fall to the budget axe as the refuge struggles with federal cuts.
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Salmon Camp program feels the pinch
Salmon Camp at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge has been gutted by federal budget cuts, but the popular summer kids program isn’t the only thing feeling the knife this year. From bear biology to basic maintenance, almost every area of refuge operations has been affected by a 5.1 percent budget cut at Kodiak’s neighborhood wildlife refuge. Another 2 percent cut could be coming down the road, but even without tha...

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Kodiak College sociology class and Renaissance fair team up for food drive
A Renaissance fair and a college sociology class decide to work together. This isn’t the setup to a joke — it’s how two wildly different Kodiak groups came together to collect food for local food banks. Brendan Doyle fights with swords in his spare time, but he also studies at Kodiak College, where he’s a student in Thia Falcone’s sociology course. That class focuses on problems and how to fix them. “We’re studyin...

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Emily Salter, owner of Emily's Alterations and Design, alters a girl's dress through the Prom Princess program, in Sitka. (Photo courtesy of Emily Salter)

Kodiak businesses volunteer for Sitka’s Prom Princess program
Three Kodiak women played fairy godmother to students at a boarding school in Sitka by turning the girls into princesses for prom. Deb Eggemeyer of Deb’s Nails and Tans, Emily Salter of Emily’s Alterations and Designs and Summer Wood of Summer’s Spray Tans traveled to Sitka in late March to volunteer with the Prom Princess program. The program was started in 2009 by Terri Bogren of Alaska Airlines in an effort to ...

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Road service areas debate contracts
If words were tangible things, there would be no lack of paving material for the 2.48 miles of road in the Monashka Bay Road Service Area. For the past month, that service area and others outside Kodiak city limits have been caught in a debate over contracts. For the first time in almost 30 years, Road Service Area No. 1 — the largest of Kodiak's suburban road maintenance districts — is redrawing its contract and ...

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The derelict dock has broken into two pieces, and more foam is floating into the bay with each tide. (Photo courtesy of Island Trails Network)

Coast Guard will pick up derelict dock
The derelict dock beached on Zaimka Island will be moved on Wednesday if all goes to plan. Coast Guard Base Kodiak announced on Monday that it would develop a plan to remove the derelict dock, which is on Coast Guard property. “The Coast Guard endeavors to be a good steward of federal lands and a good neighbor to the borough and other land owners in the region,” said Capt. Jerald Woloszynski, commanding officer o...

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Man will serve six months for third-degree assault
A Kodiak man will serve six months in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree assault. Walter Hok, 34, was sentenced to 24 months in prison (18 months suspended), and was fined $3,500 ($2,000 suspended) for one count of third-degree assault. Hok fired six rounds from a semiautomatic handgun in a home during a domestic dispute, scaring a woman inside the home. When police arrived on scene, they found Hok int...

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