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MTAB questions ferry plans
Members of the Marine Transportation Advisory Board questioned Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Pat Kemp and his staff during the board’s meeting Tuesday in Juneau on changes announced last month to ferry procurement plans. While Kemp was acting commissioner of the DOT&PF, the state announced late last year that it was abandoning its plans to order a 350-foot-long Alaska-class...
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Vice Adm. Paul Zukunft, commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area, presents the award of the Coast Guard Air Medal to Lt. John Filipowicz, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot at Air Station Kodiak, joined by his wife, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Kodiak, Alaska. Filipowicz was presented the award for his actions to save two people from the fishing vessel Heritage south of Kodiak Jan. 25, 2012, in extreme weather. Also recognized for the rescue were Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Fischer, Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua Harris. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Klingenberg /U.S. Coast Guard photo)
Achievers: Jan. 24
More Kodiakans have been nominated to the nation’s service academies by Alaska’s Congressional delegation. Each academy makes final admissions decisions based on academic and physical qualifications, but nomination is a required step in the process. McKenzie Barnett has been nominated by Rep. Don Young and Sen. Mark Begich for the U.S. Naval Academy, and Ethan Stobbe was nominated by Rep. Young for the U.S. Air Fo...
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Sarah Daria Matthew
Sarah Daria Matthew
Our beloved daughter, sister, and friend, Sarah Daria Matthew, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Sarah was born in Fairbanks on August 11, 1993. She lived in Eagle River and was a 2011 graduate of Chugiak High School. She was enrolled in college at UAA in fall 2012 and hoped to be a graphic designer. Sarah was a beautiful person, inside and out. As a senior, she was voted Most Beautiful Smile in...
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State Trooper Report: Jan. 24
Jan. 4, 2013 At 2:52 p.m., a 19-year-old man reported he had vehicle parts stolen from his 2001 Toyota Tacoma pickup while it was parked at North Star Elementary. The parts were valued at $400. Jan. 13, 2013 At 12:47 a.m., Alaska State Troopers received a 911 call from a home on Eider Way reporting an assault in progress. Troopers responded to the home. Investigation determined a 22-year-old man had assaulted thr...
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Public Safety Blotter: Jan. 24
Tuesday, Jan. 22 • At 1:36 a.m., an officer was on foot patrol on Marine Way. • At 2:41 a.m., an officer removed debris from the roadway on Marine Way. • At 9:06 a.m., a 911 caller reported a woman stole his property; there was no theft, but she was forbidden from the property. • At 9:40 a.m., a caller reported receiving strange phone calls from an unknown person. Officers gave the woman her options. • At 3:06 p.m...
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Man accused of stealing iPhones from GCI
A 28-year-old man is accused of stealing at least six iPhones from the Kodiak GCI store. Micheal Dorris was arraigned in Kodiak district court on Jan. 10 on two counts of second-degree theft. Both are class C felonies punishable by up to five years in jail and a $50,000 fine. According to court documents, the manager at the GCI store called the Kodiak Police Department on Jan. 8 and reported that six iPhones had b...
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Study finds city workers underpaid
A new study of Kodiak city employees’ pay and benefits has found the city is underpaying its employees by 9 percent when compared with an average of similar-sized governments in Alaska. The news was delivered Tuesday night by Lori Messer of Fox Lawson & Associates, which has spent the last several months analyzing the city’s pay and benefit program. Fox Lawson took 31 “benchmark” jobs offered by the city and compa...
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Murkowski determined to get federal help to clean marine debris
Alaska fishermen and beachgoers are asking for help — but none is coming anytime soon from Congress. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives stripped millions in fishery and marine debris aid from a bill intended to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims. A Senate version of the bill included $150 million to cover fisheries disasters in New England, Alaska and Sandy-affected states. Millions more was intended to go ...
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Playbook: Jan. 24
Friday, Jan. 18 Boys basketball: Kodiak vs. Kenai at Kenai. C squad, 3 p.m.; junior varsity, 4:30 p.m.; varsity, 6 p.m. Girls basketball: Kodiak vs. Kenai at Kodiak. C squad, 4:30 p.m.; junior varsity, 6 p.m.; varsity, 7:30 p.m. Wrestling: Kodiak at the Northern Lights Conference Championships at Palmer, 10 a.m.
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Fifth-grader Emily Steffenhagen, Kodiak's district spelling bee champion, will compete in the Alaska State Spelling Bee. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Fifth-grader wins district spelling bee
Fifth-grader Emily Steffenhagen was all smiles on Tuesday night after she walked away from the Kodiak Island Borough School District Spelling Bee with a dictionary and a trip to Anchorage in her future. Steffenhagen, a student at Peterson Elementary, out-spelled 19 other students from Kodiak’s schools in town and in the villages. Ten students sat on the stage in the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium drama pod, while t...
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