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'Pink slime' will come off Kodiak lunch trays next school year
KODIAK — The Kodiak Island Borough School District has likely served school lunches with the beef filler ingredient dubbed “pink slime,” but it will take steps to make sure the ingredient is excluded from 2012-2013 menus. Pink slime is a low-cost additive made from fatty bits of leftover meat that are heated, spun to remove fat, compressed into blocks and exposed to ammonia to kill bacteria. Producers often mix pi...
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Exxon Valdez is sold to Indian scrap yard
KODIAK — The Exxon Valdez is no more. On March 16, Global Marketing Systems Inc., a Maryland-based company that buys ships for scrap, reported it had purchased the Oriental Nicety for about $16 million. The news was first reported by shipping trade publication TradeWinds. Twenty-three years ago, the Oriental Nicety was a three-year-old ship named the Exxon Valdez. On March 24, 1989, it ran aground on Bligh Reef in...
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Patch job begins on Center Avenue
KODIAK — Center Avenue is expected to reopen in about 10 days, after a patch job begun Wednesday afternoon sets and hardens. The patch consists of concrete grout pumped into a large void under the asphalt. The procedure required a special pump borrowed from Anchorage. The grout will expand and fill the entire void to support the road above it, but city public works director Mark Kozak said late Wednesday that prog...
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Members of the Kodiak High School Theater Troupe rehearse for “Growing Up ... It Ain’t Easy,” Tuesday in the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium drama pod. (James Brooks photo)
Kodiak arts: Times of your life
The Kodiak High School Theater Troupe will remind everyone about the different stages of life in its three-part play “Growing Up … It Ain’t Easy,” opening this weekend. The curtain goes up at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The Sunday matinee starts at 3 p.m. The play is directed by Lissa Jensen, who has been leading the high school drama program for 15 years. “This is one of our smaller, more interesting shows...
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Stage and Screen: Politically charged films for all ages
“The Lorax” is the 2012 revised, enlarged and somewhat uninspiring film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s memorable 1971 book by the same name. The story is simple yet reflective. The profit-driven industrialist analog Once-ler (Ed Helms) mindlessly decimates the truffula trees to manufacture thneeds. Undeterred by the cantankerous, well-meaning, environmentalist analog, Lorax (Danny DeVito), the Once-ler proceeds to denu...
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Spring break 3-on-3 results
Fourth and fifth-grade division: first place, Fantastic Four: Genard Sabangan, Ken Caldejon, Felino Macatuno and Arjay Fangonilo; second place, Dunkers: Ryan Walker, Simon Swanson, Nathan Games and Tyler Skonberg; third place, Bears: Vince Mangrobang, AJ Barton, Kyle Valdez and Alexander Petropaviovskiy. Sixth and seventh-grade division: first place, Corn Dogs: Jerome Morzo, Augustine Caguing and Giovani Martinez;...
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Rep. Austerman co-sponsors bill to expand loans for commercial fishing permits
KODIAK — Rep. Alan Austerman on Wednesday co-sponsored a bill that would expand loans for fishermen seeking commercial fishing entry permits. HB261 would allow fishermen to borrow up to $200,000 from the Commercial Fishing Revolving Loan Fund, which was originally founded to help commercial fishermen make improvements to their boats. HB261 was originally sponsored by Rep. Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, who said he wa...
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Achievers: February KMS Rotary students
• Eighth grader Jeremiah Black was born in Washington state, but moved to Montana and lived there until he came to Kodiak in sixth grade. He likes hanging out with friends, all kinds of fishing, and kayaking in the rivers and bays around the island. He is a cheerful and polite student who works hard in class and is a positive influence on his classmates. He is also an accomplished baritone sax player and he partic...
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Lt. Gov. Treadwell lobbies for federal funding to benefit space industry
KODIAK — Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell is continuing a state push in support of the Kodiak Launch Complex. Two weeks after Gov. Sean Parnell asked the Alaska Legislature for $25 million to support a major expansion of the Kodiak Launch Complex, Treadwell and Alaska Aerospace CEO Craig Campbell traveled to Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the Aerospace States Association. Treadwell is chairman of the group, whic...
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Kodiak teachers defer raises to help school district deficit
KODIAK — As the Kodiak Island Borough School District tries to balance a $3.5 million deficit, teachers are lending a hand. On Monday, the borough school board approved a one-year rollover of the district’s contract with the Kodiak Borough Education Association (KBEA), which represents certified employees, including most teachers. The rollover slightly modifies existing rules for sick leave and includes no raises ...
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