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Kayla Christiansen holds up an Alutiiq headdress that she beaded, in Kodiak on Jan. 29. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Old Harbor woman creates sealskin jewelry
Kayla Christiansen has been sewing with sealskin and beading since she was seven years old. Now, 12 years later, she is still sewing and has turned her talent into a part-time business. Christiansen, 19, first learned how to sew with sealskin during an Alutiiq week in Old Harbor, where she grew up. “We had an Alutiiq week where we do all traditional stuff like sewing, traditional cooking, and carving masks,” Chris...
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Around Kodiak: Jan. 30
Senior Citizens of Kodiak Inc. is holding a regular Board of Directors meeting at 1 p.m. today at the Kodiak Senior Center in the multi-purpose room. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call the Kodiak Senior Center at 486-6181.
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Clarify bike path information
To the Editor: Paragraph two on page three of your article regarding the bike path is confusing. You write that path proponents spoke in droves during the meeting. Are you referring to the City Council members themselves or the citizens that spoke during public comments? While I was in attendance at the work session I heard four citizens speak against this path and two speak in support of the path, during public c...
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Man arrested for drugs after license plate switcharoo
A Kodiak man is facing felony charges after allegedly switching license plates on vehicles in an attempt to avoid registering a truck. Christopher Bowen, 52, was arraigned in Kodiak district court on Jan. 25 on two counts of concealing the identity of a vehicle, one count of no vehicle insurance and one count of possession of a controlled substance. The insurance charge is a misdemeanor, but the other three charge...
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Local Results: Jan. 30
City League basketball Monday, Jan. 21 St. Innocents 2, Kodiak Island Storage 0 St. Innocent’s won by forfeit Icicle Seafoods 83, Camai 68 Nick Billings 29 points, Trent Hartill 16, Geoff Spalinger 14, Jaron Steele 13, Pete Danelski 7 and Alex Debbout 4 for Icicle Seafoods. Jon Sanchez 40 points, Kevin Vanhatten 12, Jeffrey Miranda 6, Petaia Sega 6, Tommy Johnson 2 and Marcus Stewart 2 for Camai. Era Alaska 66, St...
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Kodiak snowstorm totals
Monday’s blizzard gave Kodiak city almost a third of its winter snowfall to date. According to measurements taken by the National Weather Service station at Kodiak State Airport, 9.2 inches of snow fell between midnight Monday morning and 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. Most of the accumulation — 7.3 inches — came between midnight Monday and midnight Tuesday. Rising temperatures meant the snow began turning to rain on Tu...
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Chief Warrant Officer James Bride, left, addresses the assembled Munro crew on the mess deck during a ceremony aboard the cutter where he was named the Coast Guard's 34th Master Cutterman Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. (Coast Guard cutter Munro photo)
Coast Guard sailor receives rare honor
Capt. Mark A. Cawthorn, commanding officer of the Kodiak-based Coast Guard cutter Munro, ushered a new member into the ranks of the Coast Guard’s most revered corps during a Jan. 13 ceremony aboard the ship while in the Gulf of Alaska. Chief Warrant Officer James Bride became the 34th Master Cutterman in the history of the Coast Guard, having completed 20 years of sea duty. Created in 2007, the Master Cutterman ho...
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The city's sidewalk snowblower plows a path along Mill Bay Road on Monday afternoon, Jan. 28, 2013. Thanks to a firmly-worded request from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the city of Kodiak is phasing out its longtime practice of dumping plowed snow into the harbor. (James Brooks photo)
City searches for new snow dump
For almost 60 years, snowy days like Monday have meant a line of snow-filled dump trucks spilling their load into Near Island Channel. Thanks to orders from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, that winter scene is coming to an end — and the city of Kodiak is footing the bill. On Thursday night, the Kodiak City Council voted unanimously to spend more than $67,000 to search for a lot suitable for a ...
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Man sentenced for stealing truck
A Kodiak man who stole a truck from an auto repair shop has been sentenced to almost a year in prison. According to court documents, Troy Childers, 37, will spend 360 days in jail. Childers will spend a portion of his prison sentence in an Anchorage halfway house. He has already served some of his time. The charges stem from an incident that took place Sept. 19 when Childers stole a 2001 Ford truck from C&F Auto R...
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Go Bears!
A Kodiak High School cheerleader leads a cheer during Saturday’s cheerleading camp at East Elementary. (James Brooks photo)
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