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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 se...
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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 w...
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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 t...
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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...
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Playbook: May 24
Friday, May 24 Baseball: Kodiak at the Southcentral Conference Championships at Wasilla High School. Softball: Kodiak vs. Kenai at Kenai High School, 10 a.m. and noon. Track: Brian Young Invitational at Joe Floyd Track and Field. Field events, 5:30 p.m.; running events, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 1...
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City considers adding tobacco tax
Lighting up in Kodiak could cost you a bit more. On Tuesday night, the Kodiak City Council held preliminary discussion on implementing a citywide tax on all tobacco products. The tax is seen as a means to raise revenue without altering property or sales taxes. “At least initially, I don’t think t...
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Public library director Joe D'Elia holds up a book by his favorite author Gene Wolf, at the A. Holmes Johnson Memorial Library on May 17. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Retiring library director ready for the next chapter
Kodiak will soon have a new library director to go with its new library. Kodiak Public Library director Joe D’Elia is retiring. After a 13-year career in Kodiak, he and his wife Pat will move to Florida in June. One of his sons will stay in Alaska to fish, and the other will head off to college. ...
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Ed Garrett, left, and Frank Davies drive a corer into the ground Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at Kalsin Pond. (James Brooks photo)
Research team compares prehistoric Kodiak quakes
Sixty years ago, Kalsin Pond was a meadow. Then came the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. On Tuesday afternoon, professor Ian Shennan of Durham University stomped through the marshy edge of the pond on a quest to answer a question: If a severe earthquake strikes Southcentral Alaska again, will it be ...
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