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About 130 people gather at Crescent Harbor in Sitka, Alaska, Saturday February 9, 2013, to demonstrate opposition to pending Food and Drug Administration approval of genetically modified salmon. Rally organizers encouraged people to send comments to the FDA before a February 25 deadline.(AP Photo/The Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)
Fish Factor: Salmon markets favorable this year
In a word, the outlook for Alaska salmon markets this year is favorable. That’s the conclusion of Gunnar Knapp, fisheries economist at the University of Alaska/Anchorage, in an overview of world markets to Alaska legislators. Knapp cited three key factors for the short-term outlook: lower sockeye harvests, strong canned salmon markets with low inventories, and strengthening prices for farmed salmon. Lower harve...
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KHS project bid opening delayed
Kodiak will have to wait a bit longer to learn the cost of the Kodiak High School expansion and renovation project. During Thursday evening’s Kodiak Island Borough assembly work session, borough manager Bud Cassidy told assembled officials that the bid opening on the project as been delayed by two weeks. Instead of Feb. 20, the borough will consider contractors’ bids on March 6, one day before the original constru...
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Victims of the April 12, 2012 shooting at the Coast Guard communications station Richard Belisle (second from left), and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins (second from right) are shown working to erect a 120-foot communications antenna on Shemya Island on July 2, 2011, along with Jim Wells (left) and Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Beauford (right). (Image courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)
Kodiak man arrested for Coast Guard double murder
Ten months after the bodies of Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle were found in Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak, a man has been arrested and is facing murder charges. James Michael Wells was arrested in Kodiak on Friday in connection with the murders of Coast Guardsmen Hopkins and Belisle. U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced the arrest in a press rel...
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Kodiak's Jemuel Medina and Colony's Antonio Bush fight for a loose ball during a boys high school basketball game Friday, Feb. 1 at Kodiak High School. (Derek Clarkston photo)
Prep hoops: Kodiak boys look to pick up pace
Starting 1-5 in the Northern Lights Conference has prompted Kodiak boys basketball coach David Anderson to change his strategy. Anderson’s team will be unveiling a faster style of play for this weekend’s set at Soldotna. Today’s game begins at 7:30 p.m., followed by a 4:30 p.m. Saturday game. “We are going to try to increase the speed of our game a little bit and fast break a little bit more instead of slowing i...
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Holland America cruise ships will return in 2014
Holland is coming back to Kodiak. On Thursday afternoon, Discover Kodiak announced that Holland America cruise lines is returning regular service to Kodiak in 2014. The announcement came one year after Holland declared it was ending its 14-day cruise across the Gulf of Alaska in order to focus on weeklong cruises in Southeast Alaska. “I don’t think they ever stopped looking at it, but I believe they heard enough c...
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Chilly winter of ’11 likely to cool ’13 pink returns
The winter of 2011-2012 shattered water mains and dropped the second-most snow ever on Kodiak. Now, fisheries biologists forecast it will have a chilling effect on this summer’s salmon harvest. During a meeting of the Kodiak Fish and Game advisory board, area management biologist James Jackson said this year’s pink salmon harvest is expected to include about 6.8 million wild pinks and 10.2 million hatchery-raised ...
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Kerri Ough, left, Caroline Brooks and Sue Passmore of the Good Lovelies play at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium, in Kodiak on Feb. 13. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Canadian trio performs in Kodiak
The Good Lovelies charmed Kodiak with their three-part harmonies, humorous on-stage banter and upbeat tunes in a Wednesday night concert. The Canadian trio — Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough and Sue Passmore — was invited to Kodiak as part of the Kodiak Arts Council’s performing arts series. “This is one of our biggest acts for the year,” said Kate Helligso, program coordinator for the Kodiak Arts Council. “They won a...
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Amazing Nature: Kodiak students compete and learn about oceans in statewide contest
On, Sunday night, five tired Kodiak High School students and their two coaches returned home after a long and strenuous, fun and educational weekend. The annual statewide Tsunami Bowl competition in Seward, organized by the University of Alaska is a venue for high school teams to show off and expand their knowledge of the ocean. Friday and Saturday morning were given to team presentations about teams’ respective...
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Prep hoops: Kodiak without Wandersee this weekend
Kodiak’s third-ranked girls basketball team will be without its leading scorer for this weekend’s Northern Lights Conference games at Soldotna. Junior post Hannah Wandersee will be in Nevada, playing in one of the nation’s top volleyball recruiting tournaments — the Las Vegas Classic. Wandersee was selected to play on the Alaska Volleyball Association team comprised of standout high school volleyball players from...
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My sandwich artist making a delicious — and generous — salad for me at the downtown Subway. (Photo by Suzanne Bobo)
Island Flavor: Familiar, yet unique, Subway offers the best of both
It’s no secret I’ve joined the ranks of responsible people who work in an office. Not just any office, mind you; this one’s a beautiful corner office downtown with tall windows, a gorgeous view and a printer/fax machine that actually works. I’m loving it. But I must adapt to a new modus operandi. I have to wear shoes, use a key to get into the bathroom, and figure out how to use a phone that has more buttons than ...
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