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Crab festival without crab
Call it the Surimi Festival. The 55th annual Kodiak Crab Festival will not live up to its name. With time running out to register for space at the festival, no vendor has announced intentions to sell crab. There will be plenty of salmon and halibut, but no snow crab, no Tanner crab and no king cr...
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Navy SEALS request use of state land
The U.S. Navy is planning to land on Kodiak Island. According to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the Navy’s special warfare center at Spruce Cape has requested permission to conduct brief training exercises on state land throughout the Kodiak road system. “The sites will be used for N...
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Aleutian Homes project cheaper than anticipated
A project to replace water and sewer piping in the Aleutian Homes district is turning out to be cheaper than originally estimated, and the city of Kodiak is benefiting. On Tuesday night, the Kodiak City Council heard a proposal to enlarge the fifth phase of the project replacing 50-year-old water...
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Eric Linscheid rides on Rezanof Drive during the 20-kilometer biking portion of last year's Earth Day Triathlon. (Derek Clarkston photo)
Earth Day Triathlon registration ends Thursday
Time is running out to sign up for Saturday’s Earth Day Triathlon. The last day to register for Kodiak’s only triathlon is Thursday. The triathlon has been a Kodiak tradition since 1985. Participants have to navigate a 1 kilometer swim at the Kodiak Community Pool (22 laps), a 5-kilometer run a...
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This photo provided by the University of Connecticut, shows a cicada in Pipestem State Park in West Virginia on May 27, 2003. Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers. Big numbers. Billions. Maybe even a trillion. For a few buggy weeks, residents from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered by 600 to 1. Maybe more. And the invaders will be loud. A chorus of buzzing male cicadas can rival a jet engine.(AP Photo/University of Connecticut, Chirs Simon)
Billions of cicadas will take over the East Coast
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scie...
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Public Safety Blotter: May 8
Friday, May 3 • At 12:14 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Marine Way. • At 1:25 a.m., an intoxicated man was given a disorderly complaint warning. • At 2:15 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Trident Basin Road. • At 2:49 a.m., a man received a citation for no proof of insurance. • At 3...
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ALPAR executive director Mary Fisher presents Island Trails Network president Patrick Saltonstall with the 2012 Joe Gulley President's Award for Outstanding Service, in Anchorage on May 2. (Photo courtesy of ALPAR)
Local groups receive recognition for recycling efforts
Island Trails Network and Main Elementary have been honored by Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling for their recycling efforts. ITN received ALPAR’s most prestigious award, the 2012 Joe Gulley President’s Award for Outstanding Leadership. The award is named for longtime ALPAR supporter a...
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Geologists examine large cracks in the ground formed by the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali fault earthquake, which was strongly felt in Fairbanks and Anchorage. (Photo Courtesy Peter Haeussler, USGS)
Alaska Science Forum: Cook Inlet earthquake
Red and blue waves triggered by a magnitude 4.6 earthquake rippled outward from the Anchorage area and fizzled out after 45 seconds. Except in Cook Inlet basin, where the waves were trapped for another half-minute, bouncing back and forth, up and down, within the 7.5-kilometer-thick sedimentary b...
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