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This photo provided by the University of Connecticut, shows a cicada in Pipestem State Park in West Virginia on May 27, 2003. Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers. Big numbers. Billions. Maybe even a trillion. For a few buggy weeks, residents from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered by 600 to 1. Maybe more. And the invaders will be loud. A chorus of buzzing male cicadas can rival a jet engine.(AP Photo/University of Connecticut, Chirs Simon)
Billions of cicadas will take over the East Coast
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harml...
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Public Safety Blotter: May 8
Friday, May 3 • At 12:14 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Marine Way. • At 1:25 a.m., an intoxicated man was given a disorderly complaint warning. • At 2:15 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Trident Basin Road. • At 2:49 a.m., a man received a citation for no proof of insurance. • At 3:37 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Chichenof Street. • At 3:45 a.m., a man received a citation for driving witho...
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ALPAR executive director Mary Fisher presents Island Trails Network president Patrick Saltonstall with the 2012 Joe Gulley President's Award for Outstanding Service, in Anchorage on May 2. (Photo courtesy of ALPAR)
Local groups receive recognition for recycling efforts
Island Trails Network and Main Elementary have been honored by Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling for their recycling efforts. ITN received ALPAR’s most prestigious award, the 2012 Joe Gulley President’s Award for Outstanding Leadership. The award is named for longtime ALPAR supporter and president Joe Gulley, who passed away in 2008, and is awarded to an organization or individual for outstanding servic...
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Geologists examine large cracks in the ground formed by the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali fault earthquake, which was strongly felt in Fairbanks and Anchorage. (Photo Courtesy Peter Haeussler, USGS)
Alaska Science Forum: Cook Inlet earthquake
Red and blue waves triggered by a magnitude 4.6 earthquake rippled outward from the Anchorage area and fizzled out after 45 seconds. Except in Cook Inlet basin, where the waves were trapped for another half-minute, bouncing back and forth, up and down, within the 7.5-kilometer-thick sedimentary basin. “It’s like throwing a rock in the pond. Except water is a homogeneous material. In the solid earth you have basins...
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Sara Bruce is the new ower of Kodiak Canvas Company, which produces commercial and residential canvas covers, in Kodiak on May 7. (Nicole Klauss photo)
New owners at local businesses
Spring is a time of change and some local businesses in Kodiak have also changed hands and locations. Sara Bruce took over as the new owner of Kodiak Canvas Company, located at 2414 Mill Bay Road. She runs the business part-time and also works as a school counselor at Main Elementary part-time. This is Bruce’s first business, and she said the company was a good fit for her because it combined her interests. “I was...
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Alumni update: Anthony debuts in steeplechase
Dylan Anthony tested his legs in a new event at the Occidental Invitational on Saturday in California. The University of Alaska Anchorage sophomore competed in his first 3,000-meter steeplechase and finished fourth with a time of 9 minutes, 22.87 seconds — just shy of an NCAA Division II provisional mark. The steeplechase is a 3,000-meter obstacle course featuring hurdles and a water pit. Teammate Jaymi Bethea ...
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Playbook: Wednesday, May 8
Wednesday, May 8 Soccer: Kodiak High soccer club vs. Homer JV at Homer High School. Thursday, May 9 Softball: Kodiak vs. Bartlett in Anchorage, 7:30 p.m. Junior varsity vs. West Anchorage, 5:45 p.m.
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The surface of Lilly Lake in Kodiak is covered in an oil sheen. (Photo courtesy of Giovanni Tallino)
Oil leak into Lilly Lake stumps officials, residents
The origin of an oil leak on Lilly Lake has state and local officials puzzled. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has been receiving reports about a sheen on the lake intermittently for the past month and sent someone to Kodiak to investigate last weekend. Jade Gamble of the DEC spent all day Friday investigating the sheen. She interviewed neighbors and walked the shoreline from Kodiak Municipal ...
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Portillo sentenced to five years in jail for street racing incident
The second man involved in the street racing incident that led to the death of Kodiak teen Austin Van Long was sentenced to five years in jail on Monday, bringing closure to a case that rocked Kodiak. Markryan Portillo, 22, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, a class B felony, and third-degree assault, a class C felony, in January. He was formally sentenced and taken into custody Monday afternoon. The...
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City proposes cutting budget by 6 percent
The Kodiak City Council got its first glimpse of the proposed 2014 budget on Saturday as city manager Aimee Kniaziowski and finance director Mary Munk presented a $37 million citywide proposal, down $2.2 million from fiscal year 2013. While the budget’s first draft shows higher costs for employee wages, benefits and utilities, those rises were offset by a slowdown in spending on big new projects. “Overall, I think...
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