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Kodiak awaits decision on J-1 visas
KODIAK — Fish processors could be blocked from using the U.S. State Department’s J-1 visa program as early as this summer, but processors and Sen. Mark Begich are asking the State Department to hold off for at least a year. The J-1 visa, which allows fish processors to bring in foreign college students to work during the peak of the salmon season, caused a stir last year when processors hired in expectation of a h...

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Begich: Coast Guard budgets $860 million over five years for new polar icebreaker
ANCHORAGE (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Begich says the Coast Guard is including $860 million in its five-year budget plan for a new heavy polar icebreaker. The news came as the Alaska Democrat interviewed Coast Guard commandant Adm. Robert Papp and NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco during a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Oceans, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee. Begich is subcommittee chairman. Alaska’s congressional dele...

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Kodiak radio station KRXX-FM switches to top-40 format
KODIAK — The songs have been downloaded, equipment installed and contracts signed. Today marks one week since Kodiak Island Broadcasting station KRXX-FM switched its programming from syndicated national oldies music to a top-40 station, filling a gap unfilled by any other station on Kodiak Island. The switch is a return to the top-40 format for KRXX, which used it from 1999 to 2006, when it switched to Jack FM, mu...

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Stage and screen: Netflix loses Starz, aims for own shows
A significant event came and went on Feb. 29, and the vast majority of us weren’t aware of it. So, what happened? Starz Entertainment’s four-year contract with Netflix went unrenewed. While not necessarily a sea change, last Wednesday’s event may be a harbinger of things to come in the streaming entertainment business. On the surface the Starz deal doesn’t seem all that important for Netflix, as estimates sugges...

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Mystery seal illness appears in Southeast
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Federal scientists said Wednesday that a nearly bald, lethargic seal recovered from the southeast Alaska coast showed the same symptoms of a disease that sickened ringed seals and Pacific walrus on the state’s north coast last year. Fishermen last week spotted the seal near Yakutat at the top of the Alaska Panhandle, where it was captured and taken to Anchorage. The seal was determined to be so il...

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Gov. Parnell proposes one-time $30 million boost to Alaska school districts
JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell on Wednesday proposed $30.3 million in one-time funding to help school districts with energy and student transportation costs. The president of a major Alaska teachers’ union said the money, while appreciated, doesn’t go far enough in addressing the funding challenges facing state schools. Parnell has resisted automatic budget increases — the likes of which have been proposed by the...

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Welcome aboard the socialist train
To the editor: The purpose of Fast and Furious was to give truth to the constant administration/media lie, about American gun freedom being responsible for the 40,000 drug cartel murders in Mexico, a nation that long ago banned virtually all private ownership of firearms. You think Comrade Obama is a fine president. You couldn’t be further from the truth. 1. In 1996, he endorsed a total ban on the sale of handguns...

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Obituary: Gary Green
Gary Green, formerly of Kodiak, died March 4 of bladder cancer. He was 59. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10, in Eugene, Ore. He was born May 1, 1952, in Vancouver, Wash., to Earl and Helen Ware Green. He married Joy Hockinson Green on Dec. 19, 1976, in Eugene. Gary graduated from South Eugene High School in 1970 and attended Oregon State University. He worked as manager of the Shelikof ...

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Last year’s entries in the Kodiak Island Convention and Visitors Bureau Chocolate Lovers’ Fling and Art Auction are seen spread on a table Wednesday afternoon. While halibut tails have been the canvas of choice for the past few years, Kodiak artists this year face the challenge of decorating the taxidermy mold of a pink salmon. (James Brooks photo)

Kodiak arts: KICVB art contest scales up
The Kodiak Island Convention and Visitors Bureau hopes to hook contributors with a series of artistically decorated pink salmon. The salmon will be the centerpiece of the visitor bureau’s fourth annual Chocolate Lovers’ Fling and Art Auction. Before they appear at the May event, however, the fish have to go through the hands of local artists, who are competing for the rights to receive one of the 14 fish that will...

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East Elementary principal Paul Kubina is duct-taped to a gym wall by teachers Wednesday. Kubina bet students that they couldn’t read 15 million words during the second trimester of the school year. Students surpassed that goal by more than 2 million, reading 17,318,715 words. (James Brooks photos)

Achievers: Kodiak elementary students triumph in reading challenges
As East Elementary School principal Paul Kubina smiled as he was duct-taped to a wall. At the start of the school’s second trimester, he bet that students couldn’t read 15 million words before the start of spring break. It was a bet he was happy to lose. By Wednesday morning, students had recorded 17,318,715 words. While teachers tore off strips of duct tape and did most of the hard work during a Wednesday assembl...

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