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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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Playbook - July 6, 2012
Today Racing: Motocross, ATV at the Kodiak Island Raceway, 6:30 p.m.
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After repaving project, signs of change
Motorists in Kodiak should now have a better idea of where they are. That’s because the new street signs on Rezanof Drive are noticeably bigger. The larger signs are part of the current resurfacing project on Rezanof Drive, and were put up in adherence to new code regulations. “The main scope of our project for signs is making them larger for better visibility for longer distances so you can see the roadways,” st...
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Another Day in Paradise: The limits of freedom
For all of our veterans across this great country, let me say thank you for all you’ve done. Thank you for helping to secure our freedoms that we so enjoy. But all that you have done can be undone by those to whom you have given these freedoms. I say that they can be undone, because any freedom that is not exercised or utilized is subject to being lost. And those freedoms that are so abused as to cross the bounda...
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June dry but no record for Kodiak
Kodiak didn’t set any weather records in June, but it wasn’t far off. According to figures released Thursday by the Alaska Climate Research Center, the archipelago’s largest city received just 14 percent of its normal rainfall last month. In an average June, Kodiak gets 5.9 inches of rain. This June, it received 0.8 inches, barely above the all-time driest June on record. In June 1997, Kodiak saw 0.67 inches of ra...
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Alutiiq Word of the Weeks - July 6
PaRag’autaq (N)/ PaRag’uutaq (S): Fishing Boat Kugyasigciqukut paRag’uutakun: We are going to go fishing (seining) on the boat. Visit any dock in the Kodiak Archipelago and you will find an array of fishing vessels. Skiffs, seiners, tenders and crabbers are part of the rhythm of life in Kodiak and its Alutiiq communities.
Over the centuries, Alutiiq people have used many types of fishing boats. Before the arrival...
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Public Safety Blotter - July 6
Friday, June 29 • At 12:46 a.m. a phone call was received and someone on Willow Street was advised they were not to set off any fireworks inside city limits. • At 12:58 a.m. an oficer was with an intoxicated man on THorsheim Street who went into a building he was not allowed in. • At 5:45 a.m. a phone call was received reporting shots fired in the area of Pillar Mountain. Officers found no one. • At 5:58 a.m. of...
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Editorial: City must end sales tax cap debate
Last month, the Kodiak City Council voted to raise sales tax rates by 1 percent. Starting Oct. 1, Kodiak will have a 7 percent sales tax, one of the highest in the state. It was the right move to make. A report released this week by the Alaska Department of Labor explains why. The cost of basic goods is rising far faster than the rate of inflation — it simply costs more to provide basic services than it did 10 yea...
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Obituary: Allen Dale Parker
Allen Dale Parker, 65, of Kodiak, passed away on June 27, 2012, after a 15-month battle with cancer. He was born on June 14, 1947, in Kodiak, the eldest of four children born to Irene Christofferson Parker and Marion Parker. Except for forays out of state for college at Willamette University and the Army during the Vietnam era, he made his beloved island his home. Allen was a man of many talents, spending his earl...
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