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KHS unified track team competes at state
A group of athletes from Kodiak made state history over the weekend. Kodiak’s Rebekah Anderson, Emmelia Dresdow, Lucky Keodovangdy and Kordell Pillians participated in the first unified events held at the state track and field championships in Fairbanks. The events combined students with and without intellectual disabilities. Six unified teams from across the state competed against each other in the 100-meter d...
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(from right) Kodiak's Levi Thomet, Cole Christiansen, and Julian McCarthy leave the starting line with the rest of the runners at the start of the 4A Boys 3,200 Meter Run during the ASAA State High School Track and Field Championships Friday, May 17, 2013 at Lathrop High School. The trio swept the podium, finishing in the same order. (Eric Engman/News-Miner photo)
Kodiak boys win school’s third state track and field title
One by one, members of Kodiak’s boys track and field team entered the Benny Benson Kodiak State Airport terminal late Saturday night to the chant of “champions” coming from the small contingent of fans gathered to celebrate the Bears’ achievements. Two plane rides and hours before, the boys with blue hair captured the school’s third 4A state track and field championship at a winter-like Lathrop High School in Fai...
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The Kodiak Maritime Museum held a Thelma C cleanup to prepare to put the boat into storage ahead of its installation on a site in downtown Kodiak, on May 18. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Thelma C prepared for home
After more than a year of restoration, the Kodiak Maritime Museum’s Thelma C is ready for its new home on the Kodiak waterfront. On Saturday, volunteers finished cleaning the Thelma C restoration site at Kodiak College, preparing the wooden fishing boat for storage until construction is finished on a permanent display stand downtown. “We’re buttoning her up,” said Kodiak Maritime Museum executive director Toby Sul...
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Shirley Janette Beehler
Shirley Janette Beehler
Longtime Kodiak resident Shirley Janette Beehler passed away at her home in Flemington, Mo. on April 9. She was 77. Shirley was born in Parnell, Mo. to Vea and Izola Arnold on March 9, 1936. She graduated from St. Charles Community High School on June 10, 1955 and married her sweetheart, Asa Beehler, eight days later. Asa and Shirley lived in Illinois and had two sons, Bruce and Kevin Beehler. The Beehler family ...
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CEO of GEICO Tony Nicely, Vice Adm. John Currier, the vice commandant , Petty Officer 1st Class Claude Morrissey, his wife Elizabeth Morrissey and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Michael Leavitt stand for a photo at the GEICO Military Service Awards dinner in Washington, D.C., April 29, 2013. Morrissey was the Coast Guard’s 2012 award winner for his outstanding service to the military and civilian communities of Kodiak, Alaska. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley.
Kodiak Coast Guardsman receives military service award
A Kodiak-based Coast Guard rescue swimmer was named the GEICO 2012 Military Service winner for his work in drug and alcohol abuse prevention. Claude Morrissey traveled with his family to Washington D.C. last month to receive the award at the annual GEICO Military Service Awards dinner. Each year for the last 25 years, GEICO has recognized one enlisted member nationwide from each of the five branches of the militar...
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What are the roots of this kale seedling telling you? "We need space!" Roots that are crowded and poking out the container holes need to be transplanted in the garden or at least potted up into the next size container. (Marion Owen photo)
Garden Gate: Solve your pot problems by picking up a larger container
It’s late May and I have seedlings with roots poking through the bottom of the containers. They need to get into the ground, but it’s chilly at night. What should I do? Occasionally your seedlings will outgrow their containers before you are ready to move them into their permanent homes in the dirt. This happens when you have enthusiastically planted too early (beginning gardeners do this a lot) or warm weather ha...
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Fish Factor: New tech preserves salmon for months without ice
National Maritime Day on May 22 is a holiday created by Congress in 1933 to honor America’s seagoing industry. It marks the day when the SS Savannah set sail from Georgia on the first trans-Atlantic voyage by a steamship. As celebrations are underway, another maritime benchmark will be set as the first full container of 18 tons of fresh salmon from Chile is offloaded from a cargo ship in California after an icele...
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Coast Guard Blotter: May 20
May 10 • Coast Guard 17th District command center watchstanders received a satellite phone call from hunting party in the Ayakulik Flats requesting a medevac for a 76-year-old man who was unconscious May 10. The man had been hunting for last five days and been doing well until that morning when he felt dizzy and passed out twice. The watchstanders gathered initial medical information on the man, but during initia...
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In this photo provided by the Alaskan Volcano Observatory, the Pavlof volcano erupts Thursday, May 16, 2013, as seen from the air from the southwest in Cold Bay, Alaska. (AP Photo/Alaskan Volcano Observatory, Theo Chesley)
Ash steers clear of Kodiak for now
Kodiak residents awoke Saturday to find a strange powdery deposit on the hoods and roofs of their cars. While Pavlof Volcano 30 miles from Cold Bay has been erupting for the past week, the yellow powder wasn’t volcanic ash — it was spruce pollen produced by the island’s blooming stands of Sitka Spruce. If northeast winds hold steady through the week, however, Pavlof ash could join that pollen. On Sunday afternoon,...
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Raissa Boskofsky of Port Lions competes in the 1A/2A/3A girls high jump during the ASAA State High School Track and Field Championships Friday at Lathrop High School. Boskofsky won the event for the third year in a row. (Eric Engman/News-Miner photo)
Boskofsky ends career as state’s best high jumper
For someone who thought she would never win a state title, Port Lions’ Raissa Boskofsky certainly proved herself wrong. The senior jumped past the 1/2/3A field to win her third consecutive high jump title Friday at the state track and field championships at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks. She graduates from Port Lions as a seven-time state champion — five in track and two in basketball. “I never even thought ...
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