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Jerish Bormuel, center, will compete at the USBC Junior Gold Championship Saturday in Indianapolis, Ind. Brothers Jacque, left, and Jason, right, will be bowling in two other tournaments in Indiana.
(Derek Clarkston photo)

Kodiak brothers bowl in Indiana
The Bormuel brothers bond with bowling. The three — Jason, Jerish and Jacque — do everything bowling together. They practice together. They league bowl together and now they are headed cross country together. The trio is bowling in three tournaments in Indianapolis, Ind., beginning today. The showcase tournament is the USBC Junior Gold Championships, the biggest youth tournament in the nation with more than 2...

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Kodiak woman arrested after kayak tips
A Kodiak woman got more than she bargained for when her kayak tipped and a bystander called Alaska State Troopers to help. According to a troopers dispatch report, Dolores Peterson was paddling about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday near the Spruce Cape Road heliport when her kayak overturned. A bystander helped her to shore with his own kayak, and the two were met by a trooper who was called to the scene. Peterson was unharmed ...

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Maggie Brown, center, plays Beowulf in a Sum’Arts theater camp performance of “Beowulf on a Budget” Saturday in the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium.

Kodiak arts: Modern makeover for a medieval monster
The bucket kept dropping over Beowulf’s eyes, and Grendel couldn’t see out of her paper-bag mask. Just as planned. On Saturday, the drama and improvisational comedy courses taught by the Kodiak Arts Council’s Sum’Arts For Kids concluded with a show at the Gerald C Wilson Auditorium. After the four improv students entertained their audience with comedic skits, the larger theater group performed “Beowulf on a Budget...

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Public safety blotter - July 12, 2012
Wednesday, July 4 • At 8:58 p.m. a phone call was received reporting a vehicle weaving all over the road on Mill Bay Road. Officer caught up with the driver. There was no alcohol. • At 9 p.m. a phone call was received reporting fireworks being set off at Baranof Park. Officers patrolled the area and found nothing. • At 10:45 p.m. a phone call was received from a woman reporting that a man kept calling her and yell...

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Achievers - July 12, 2012
Mark Schreiter of Kodiak received a $1,400 grant from the Wyoming State Historical Society to conduct research for a book titled “Wyoming Jack O’Brien and the Western Identity.”

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Stage and Screen: Beloved macabre family smart on stage
The Denver 2012 Broadway theater series can be described as eclectic and largely unremarkable. That all changed with the late June road show production of “The Addams Family.” Incredibly, I was ready to skip this show and write off a couple of hundred dollars’ worth of premium seats. I’m delighted I didn’t go with my instincts on this one. I would have been mistaken. Very mistaken. Premiering in September of 1964,...

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Obituary: Lorene Kay Harrington
Lorene Kay Harrington, beloved wife, daughter, sister, mother, grandmother and friend, died peacefully at home July 8, 2012, after battling cancer for 14 years. Lorene Olinger was born April 2, 1951, in Orange, Calif. She was the sixth of seven children born to Jack and Ollie Mae Olinger. Lorene was preceded in death by her father, Jack Olinger, and her brother, Steve Olinger. Lorene is survived by her husband W...

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Lt. Gov. Treadwell visits Kodiak
Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell will visit Kodiak today as part of the ongoing campaign to educate Alaskans ahead of an Aug. 28 primary vote. On that date, Alaskans go to the polls to decide the fate of the state’s coastal management program, which ended in 2011 when Gov. Sean Parnell and the Alaska Legislature failed to reach agreement on its renewal. Treadwell is hosting informational meetings in communities across the ...

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Departing Alaska rocket chief says family came first
Alaska Aerospace Corporation CEO Dale Nash steps down from his office at the end of the month after five years as the head of Alaska’s space program. Nash isn’t retiring — he’s heading to a similar job at the East Coast mirror of the Kodiak Launch Complex, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. In an interview Wednesday, Nash said the move will put him closer to family. “I have kids and grandkids that li...

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Former state Rep. Heinze dies in crash
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Former state Rep. Cheryll Heinze died early Wednesday from injuries she suffered in a small-plane crash in Homer that left four of her co-workers at an electric cooperative with minor injuries. The Cessna 206 crashed late Tuesday while landing on Beluga Lake. Heinze, 65, was taken to South Peninsula Hospital in Homer and was being readied for transfer to a larger hospital in Anchorage for treatmen...

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