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Wrestlers head to Dimond
Kodiak High School’s wrestling team is back together for the stretch run of the season. Many of the wrestlers spent the holidays away from the mat room, but with school beginning this week the team is ready for its final push. That push begins today when Kodiak travels to the Glen Vandergraw Tournament at Dimond High School. The team competes in duals today and the tournament on Saturday. “This is the last big...
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Anthony White looks at the cast list for "Man of La Mancha" posted outside the Kodiak Arts Council, on Jan. 10. White was cast for two roles. (Photo courtesy Katie Oliver)
'Man of La Mancha' casts off
Auditions for the musical production “Man of La Mancha” were held last weekend, and more than two dozen Kodiak actors will now begin preparing for their roles. About 30 people tried out for the musical, and director Jenny Stevens said all were chosen for a part. “I had just the right amount of people audition,” Stevens said. “There were very hard decisions. I had a number of people who could have stepped into a nu...
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Fishing boat suffers minor damage in grounding
A 56-foot Cordova-based fishing boat was towed to Kodiak on Thursday after running aground and puncturing its hull on Raspberry Island. According to the Coast Guard, the Neptune, homeported in Cordova and owned by China B Fisheries Inc., sent a distress call about 1:30 a.m. Thursday reporting it had grounded on the southern side of Raspberry Island and was taking on water. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helic...
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Perspective: Returning to Kodiak
Most of us in Kodiak know what it’s like to move from one place to another. Our friends and family are scattered across the country and the world; many of us are transplants to the island from somewhere far away. After spending the last two years in El Salvador, coming back to Kodiak was harder than I had imagined. I found a home there, in a tiny country Salvadorans affectionately call ‘The Little Flea of America’...
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Empty seats dot the Kodiak High School Commons on Wednesday night, Jan. 9, 2013 during the start of the Kulluk unified command community meeting in Kodiak High School. Fewer than 50 Kodiak residents attended the event, with most longtime residents saying the nonconfrontational, low-key meeting was absolutely nothing like the furor following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Lightly attended Kulluk community meeting no 'Exxon Valdez' sequel
It was nothing like the Exxon Valdez. Fewer than 50 Kodiakans turned out to the Kodiak High School Commons Wednesday night for a remarkably quiet community meeting about the Royal Dutch Shell PLC drilling rig Kulluk, now moored in Kiliuda Bay after being pulled from Sitkalidak Island. Since the Kulluk ran aground on New Year's Eve after slipping its tow lines, the rig has been remarkable more for what it hasn't br...
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Safeway employee Sam Stahlhut returns carts to the Kodiak Safeway store on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Kodiak's Safeway has been exempted from a new policy barring all but a handful of nonprofits from holding sales and selling tickets on store grounds. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Kodiak Safeway remains open to nonprofits
Kodiak’s Safeway grocery store will not be closing its doors to nonprofits after all. In an internal memo earlier this month, Safeway announced a policy shift that prohibits most nonprofit organizations from using Safeway as a place to hold bake sales or sell raffle tickets. On Wednesday, Sara Osborne, the director of public affairs and governmental relations for Safeway’s northwest region, clarified that the poli...
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Kodiak’s Sarah Ng makes a pass during a high school basketball game against Juneau-Douglas Thursday, Jan. 3, at Kodiak High School. (Derek Clarkston photo)
Practice paying off for Ng
Sarah Ng owes her Joe Floyd Tournament 3-point contest title to her father Jimmy. The groundwork for her precise shooting was laid years ago inside the Coast Guard base gym. “He said, ‘Sarah, you can be a shooter,’ and I said, ‘OK, let’s work that.’ So we did,” Sarah said. Daughter and father spent endless nights inside the base gym, Sarah shooting and Jimmy rebounding. The two even played a little one-on-one a...
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Applications accepted for two big fisheries boards
Nominations are being sought to fill openings on two of the boards most important to fisheries management in Alaska. On the same day the International Pacific Halibut Commission reopened its application process, state board of fish member Bill Brown resigned with almost a year and a half remaining in his term. Brown told KTOO-FM in Juneau that “personal reasons” and “personalities” played into his decision but dec...
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State Trooper Report: Jan. 10
Monday, Jan. 7 The Ouzinkie village public safety officer received a report of an assault in Ouzinkie. Investigation revealed a 22-year-old woman assaulted a family member. The woman was placed under arrest for fourth-degree-assault and transported to the Kodiak jail where she was held with no bail pending arraignment. Wednesday, Jan. 9 At 5:42 a.m., Alaska State Troopers investigated an expected natural home dea...
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Public Safety Blotter: Jan. 10
Monday, Jan. 7 • At 12:46 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Marine Way. • At 1:49 a.m., a caller reported three men threatened to hurt her. Officers made their presence known with no issues, and advised her to call if she needs an escort when she leaves. • At 8:04 a.m., a woman requested officer presence so she could retrieve her cell phone. • At 9:46 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Rezanof Drive. • At...
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