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Kodiak Borough Assembly reverses on aid to nonprofit groups
Swayed by the pleas of soft-voiced Girl Scouts and boisterous baseball players, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly cut its planned contribution to the borough’s homeless shelter to restore funding to the Kodiak Girl Scouts and Kodiak Little League. The assembly voted unanimously to reinstate $4,500 in funding for Little League and $1,000 for Girl Scouts, then voted 6-1, assembly member Mel Stephens opposed, to giv...

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Kodiak and Bayside firefighters respond to a small apartment kitchen fire Thursday afternoon at the Spruce Manor apartment complex on Purtov Street. Only light damage was reported after a grease fire in one unit’s kitchen.
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Small fire scorches Kodiak apartment
A small grease fire occurred in a Spruce Manor apartment on Thursday. Shortly after noon the Kodiak Fire Department received a 911 call reporting a fire in the bottom unit of a six-unit building at 1212 Purtov Street. The resident had been cooking on the stove with oil when the fire started, city fire Chief Rome Kamai said. Three firefighters responded to the fire. After arriving, they noticed light smoke coming f...

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Kodiak schools serve new lunch schedule
Next fall eighth-graders and ninth-graders will eat lunch together, thanks to a new aligned school schedule. What started as a way to see where the school district could save money has developed into a plan to prepare eighth-graders for the transition to high school. The district decided to make the schedule alignment between the high school and middle school after looking at efficiencies. As a result of aligning ...

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Old Harbor residents pose during blessing of the fleet ceremonies held as part of the city’s Fourth of July Festivities.
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Fourth of July in Old Harbor
Old Harbor’s annual Fourth of July celebration included green with the red, white and blue as members of the city’s youth environmental group pitched in alongside other volunteers. While the environmental group expanded its pro-recycling effort by creating new drop-off locations, other Old Harbor teens assisted with the annual Fourth of July flag-raising ceremony, filled water balloons or generally decorated the t...

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Visiting pastor Lauwers gets acquainted with eternal neighbors
Christians are going to live with each other eternally, so they might as well get to know each other on earth, said Kodiak visitor Keith Lauwers. Lauwers, an Anchorage pastor, comes to Kodiak to hunt, attend retreats and visit his friends Alan and Linda Ross, who were students at the Vancouver Bible Institute in the mid-1960s when he taught physical education there. Lauwers officiated at their wedding and the we...

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Hannah David, left, and Hallah Jantz are two players on Kodiak’s Little League Major all-star team, which begins play Wednesday in Palmer. The two girls played baseball because Kodiak does not have a Little League softball program. (Derek Clarkston photos)

Playing with the boys
Don’t tell Hannah David or Hallah Jantz that they throw like a girl. Chances are, they throw a baseball better than most Kodiak youths. David and Jantz are part of Kodiak’s 11-member Major Little League baseball all-star team. The only thing that separates the two girls from the rest of their teammates is the long-flowing hair that appears out of their caps. “They are not intimidated to play with the boys,” all...

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Perspective: Growing up changes things
My elementary school was always struggling financially and throughout the year would have various types of contests to motivate students to go out and fund raise. My favorite was selling chocolate. I wasn’t particularly good at it, but all the ones we didn’t sell mom and dad had to buy at the end of the month, and since my little brother wasn’t an enthusiastic salesperson either, this meant enough chocolate to tid...

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Some in Kodiak benefit from state arts grants
The Alutiiq Heritage Foundation and the Kodiak Island Borough School District are benefitting from the latest round of grants from the Alaska State Council for the Arts. On Monday the council announced $545,800 in awards to organizations and individuals across Alaska. In Kodiak, the heritage foundation received $18,000, while the school district was awarded $13,000. The school district money goes into the district...

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EPA sticks to Pebble review schedule
The EPA has announced it will not extend the public comment period on its Pebble Mine environmental assessment, handing a victory of sorts to mine opponents. Pebble Limited Partnership and Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty had requested the federal agency keep comments open in order to avoid a “rush to judgement.” The assessment, released this spring, is a draft version of a document the EPA could use to bl...

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Amazing Nature: Oceans support the wonder of life
Last week I had the opportunity to join 330 marine educators from all over the coastal U.S. for a conference in Anchorage. There were teachers, informal educators from aquaria and museums, government program agents, freelance writers, artists and school district administrators. What united all these people was a long-standing passion to teach about the ocean, increase awareness of the human influences on the marin...

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