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Coast Guard Blotter: May 24
May 16 Coast Guard Station Ketchikan crewmembers terminated the voyage of a recreational boat fishing in Carroll Inlet after discovering safety and fishing violations on the vessel May 16. The Station Ketchikan 25-foot Response Boat - Small crew safely escorted the 20-foot boat, with two people aboard, to Mountain Point near Ketchikan. During an at-sea boarding, the station crew discovered life jackets missing, a...
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My only beef with this picnic pack is that it takes an icepick to break into it—and airports frown on passengers attempting to carry such instruments onboard. (Suzanne Bobo photo)
Island Flavor: Picnics on Alaska Airlines. Shortest. Column. Ever?
I was thinking about Snoopy when I ordered it. I’m trusting that at least some of my readers remember Snoopy, the World War I Flying Ace and head beagle in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz. The Flying Ace was only one of the fantasy identities of Charlie Brown’s dog. Snoopy imagined himself in several other roles. He was Joe Cool. Or a vulture. Or, in his darkest moments, a lawyer. I always loved...
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Observing 30th birthday, hatchery association expands
The Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a significant expansion. At Thursday’s annual meeting of Kodiak’s regional fish hatchery group, board members shared stories of KRAA’s founding, and local hatchery managers gave presentations about Pillar Creek Hatchery and Kitoi Bay Hatchery. “This year we’re working on our hatchery expansion,” said Michael Smimmo, assi...
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Another Day in Paradise: An Unexpected Provision
It was another typical Kodiak morning. The temperature was cool and comfortable. The dogs and I began our morning walk as usual. We walked down to the corner by Spruce Haven and dropped back to walk along the beach and enjoy the low tide. The usual birds were working their way along the tide pools, the eagles were lined up along the runout from Potato Patch Lake, thanking Fish and Game for fingerlings they plant...
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Amazing Nature: Carbon dioxide levels reach historic high mark
Four hundred parts per million of carbon dioxide! On May 10, the news went out that for the first time in history, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric observatory on Mauna Loa in Hawaii reached 400 parts per million. According to the NOAA website reporting this historic event, before the start of the industrial revolution these concentrations used to fluctuate b...
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City council signs off on first review of FY14 budget
The Kodiak City Council unanimously approved the first reading of the city's fiscal year 2014 budget on Thursday, setting the stage for the budget's acceptance in June. The city's fiscal year starts July 1, and the proposed $37 million budget before the council includes a 6 percent cut overall, the result of cost-cutting and the end of several expensive construction projects. The city is expected to have the equiv...
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Marian Call will perform in Kodiak at 8 p.m. in the Kodiak Harbor Convention Center. (Brian Adams photo)
Marian Call will perform in Kodiak
Singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed “nerd” Marian Call will perform in Kodiak tonight. Call’s musical style has been described as “acoustic joy jazz” by fans, and her lyrics touch on subjects like Shark Week, airplanes, NASA, Alaska and TV shows. “I’m kind of a nerd, so a lot of my songs are secretly about ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and other things too,” Call said. “There are little hidden Easter eggs.” Kodiak Arts...
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Prep baseball: Kodiak reaches SCC final
By DEREK CLARKSTON Mirror Writer A 90-minute delay didn’t slow down Kodiak in its Southcentral Conference Championships semifinal baseball game Thursday evening. The Bears earned a spot in today’s championship game with a 9-2 victory over Homer at Wasilla High School. The game got a late start when Colony outlasted Kenai 10-6 in 12 innings in the first semifinal. Top-seeds Kodiak (9-3) and Colony play for the con...
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Kodiak softball earns split with Homer
Kodiak earned its biggest win in Sam Catt’s three years as head coach Thursday night in Homer. After dropping the first Northern Lights Conference game, 7-3, to Homer, the Bears’ softball team rebounded with an impressive 10-3 win that kept Kodiak’s state chances alive. Kodiak moves to 4-2 in the NLC, 10-8 overall. The Bears need to win their final four conference games to earn their first small-school state tou...
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Rural students compete at national archery tournament
Three Kodiak Island students were among nearly 10,000 shooters who competed at a national archery tournament May 10 in Kentucky. Ocean Reft and Joseph Brattole, both from Karluk, and Gayle Aga of Larsen Bay shot at the National NASP Archery Tournament. Aga, a fifth-grader, scored 204 points out of a possible 300, Brattole, a sixth-grader, netted 203 points, while Reft, a a fourth-grader, tallied 160 points. “Th...
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