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Counterfeit bills still popping up in Kodiak
KODIAK — The Kodiak Police Department continues to investigate a spate of counterfeit dollars that have been popping up among Kodiak businesses. The fake bills have appeared in denominations between $10 and $100, and no denomination is more common, police chief T.C. Kamai said. There also appears to be no pattern to where the bills appear. The U.S. Secret Service, which falls under the Treasury Department, investi...
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Mixed results for NLC at state
Wasilla and Colony were the only two Northern Lights Conference schools to pick up wins on the first day of the ASAA/First National Bank of Alaska 4A Basketball State Tournament Thursday at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Wasilla’s boys and girls were both the top-seeded team in each bracket, and both played like it. The Wasilla boys blew past Lathrop 60-45, while the Wasilla girls beat Palmer 50-31. The Colony gi...
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Perspective: Local elections turn El Salvador into a madhouse
The flags that cover the city are red, blue, orange and striped. On every wall, public or private, there are posters and slogans, candidates’ faces are plastered on cement or tied to light posts. For weeks, the radio and the TV have been screaming propaganda, cars with huge stereo systems mounted on their roofs drive slowly through neighborhoods in the evening and through crowded streets at rush hour. “Vote for...
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Alf Pryor captures video that will be used for the Thelma C project archives while Don Corwin and Cash Seele work together to pound in new ribs. (Suzanna Bobo photo)
Scuttlebutt: Thelma C restoration continues
Teams of students and volunteers continued their work on the Thelma C restoration project this week at Kodiak College. The Thelma C is a 36-foot wooden salmon seine vessel donated to Kodiak Maritime Museum by its last owner for restoration and use as an interpretive exhibit. Kodiak College recently partnered with the museum to provide a work site and shop space. KMM contracted shipwright Brian Johnson to manage t...
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Alaska House passes $9.5 billion state operating budget
JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska House on Thursday passed a $9.5 billion state operating budget. The 31-5 early evening vote came after hours of debate, split over two floor sessions. The dissenting votes came from minority Democrats, including Rep. Mike Doogan, who said the budget is too fat. The spending plan compares to the $9 billion budget enacted for the current year, and could still grow: The Senate gets it next. A...
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The American Pacific Whaling Company established Port Hobron on Sitkalidak Island and processed more than 2,000 whales during the whaling station’s 11 years of existence. (Image courtesy Kodiak Historical Society)
Harpoon harvest: Part 2 of a look at Kodiak’s whaling history
Who owns the ocean, and the creatures that swim throughout it? How should the right to harvest the bounty of the sea be bestowed? These questions are as politically contentious now as they were centuries ago, when American whalers prowled Russian waters. Those Russian waters were the Kodiak Grounds. Indeed, it was partially due to the incredible number of American whalers throughout the waters of Russian America d...
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A Basket star, left, two sea lilies, right, and a brittle star, bottom. (Switgard Duesterloh photo)
Amazing Nature: The lesser-known marine stars
Unless one is genuinely interested in the very wonders of life and its many forms, there is little reason to learn about sea stars and some of their relatives; they are not edible and there are no commercial uses for them, except perhaps as decorations in art projects. I repeat myself in describing that sea stars are classified as echinoderms, along with sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sand dollars and a few others. ...
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Rev. Gordon Blue
Lent is a time for sharpening spiritual swords
Lent has been called a desert, a wilderness, an arena and a battlefield, signifying the spiritual struggle and warfare associated with this 40-day season (not counting Sundays) preceding Good Friday and Easter, the holy days honoring Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection. The season is acknowledged in varying degrees by Eastern Orthodox, who celebrate the Resurrection (known as Pascha) on April 15, and the C...
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Coast Guard Blotter: March 16
March 8 A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 57-year-old fisherman from the 310-foot fishing vessel Northern Hawk southeast of St. Paul. Coast Guard District 17 watchstanders received a report stating the man was suffering from cardiac distress. The helicopter crew safely hoisted the patient and delivered him to awaiting emergency medical crews in St. Paul. The man was taken ...
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Another Day in Paradise: The heart of a champion
The old English poem begins, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” Transportation has come a long way since then, but in some corners of the world, it’s still man, muscle, and beast. It’s not 1925 and there is no serum available, but Nome is running hot with Iditarod fever. In 2007, Lance Mackey sent the mushing community back to the training school to rethink race logic. He not only ran both the Yukon Que...
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