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A participant in Kodiak’s Fourth of July parade rides through downtown Kodiak with his dogs after the parade as the onion domes of Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral are seen behind him.
Fourth parade goes off under dry skies
On a day that began and ended with the bang of fireworks, it was the annual Fourth of July parade that stole the show in Kodiak. With no organized fireworks on hand for the second consecutive year, the annual parade put on by the American Legion took center stage. Leading the show was grand marsh...
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Help comes in for Kodiak shelter, library
Three Kodiak groups will receive grants totaling $1.1 million from the Rasmuson Foundation. The Rasmuson Foundation awarded $500,000 to the Brother Francis Shelter, $100,000 to the Kodiak Area Native Association and $500,000 to the city of Kodiak for its new library. On June 27 the Rasmuson Found...
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Heavy equipment moves dirt in Old Harbor during the first phase of the Old Harbor runway expansion project. (Photo courtesy Cynthia Berns-Lopez)
US military will help Old Harbor with airstrip
The government program that grounded a landing craft on a Kodiak island will next year bring a new airstrip to Old Harbor. The airstrip is a key part of Old Harbor’s economic revitalization plan, but it wouldn’t happen nearly as fast without the help of the military’s Innovative Readiness Trainin...
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Obituary: Mpnica Geronimo
Monica Geronimo was born May 15, 1916, and passed away in her sleep June 29, 2012. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, July 6, at the Kodiak Funeral Chapel.
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Jake Barnett
Achievers - July 5, 2012
2010 Kodiak High School graduate Jake Barnett is serving in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard, a branch of the president’s honor guard. Jake enlisted in January 2011. Jake’s sister McKenzie Barnett, a rising KHS senior, is taking part in the Summer Seminar program at the U.S. N...
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UAA coach heads to Kodiak
University of Alaska Anchorage boys basketball coach Rusty Osborne will be in Kodiak this weekend. The veteran Seawolves coach is putting on a free three-day clinic that begins Friday at Kodiak High School. The clinic is open to Kodiak High School boys. Friday and Saturday begins at 5:30 p.m. a...
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Curtis Mortenson, left, and Jordan Fogle cross the Buskin River bridge during the July Fourth 10K Run and Walk Wednesday morning. Mortenson won the men’s race, while Fogle finished second. (Derek Clarkston photos)
Mortenson first on Fourth; Horn takes women’s field
Curtis Mortenson and Jordan Fogle went stride for stride through the first half of Thursday’s July Fourth 10K Run and Walk. The second half of the race was owned by Mortenson, a Kodiak High School running star from the past. Mortenson broke away from Fogle by Boy Scout Lake to earn his second...
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A wolf caught serendipitously on one of Ken Tape’s cameras he set up in northern Alaska to record caribou and ptarmigan migrations this spring. (Image courtesy of Ken Tape)
Alaska Science Forum: Camera captures curious canine
Sometimes you get lucky. Ken Tape feels that way, after a time-lapse camera he set up in northern Alaska captured a full-frame portrait of a wolf. He shared the image with me, and, now, with you. This spring, Tape, author of the book “The Changing Arctic Landscape,” set up 14 time-lapse cameras i...
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