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A "store closing" banner hangs outside Eggemeyer's Furniture on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2011 in Kodiak. The family-owned store has been in business for 48 years at various locations in Kodiak. Owner Jim Eggemeyer said he's shutting down the business to concentrate on his other work. (James Brooks photo)
Longtime Kodiak furniture store prepares for the end
KODIAK — After almost 50 years in business, Eggemeyer’s Furniture is closing its doors. Owner Jim Eggemeyer, who has overseen the family-run business for more than two decades, said it’s time to move on. “I’ve been doing this all my life,” he said, “and I’ve still got another 40-hour job out there.” The store’s going out of business sale starts at noon today and will run until the store is empty. “Our goal is to g...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judge OKs sidewalk selling for Kodiak businesses
KODIAK — The city of Kodiak may see more sidewalk sales in the future because a city ordinance used to ban them will be enforced differently. The ordinance has been on the books for more than 20 years and compels property owners to keep the sidewalks next to their property clear of debris and other material. “They were defining debris and other materials as merchandise,” said Rhonda Maker, who owns The Treasury ...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kodiak High School student Taylor Heflin shows off her sketch of a bear getting into a dumpster on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 22, 2011 in the Kodiak office of Alaska Waste. The sketch will be painted on a sign at the Sargent Creek garbage site. Dumpsters are being removed from the site in order to deter hungry bears. (James Brooks photo)
To avoid attracting bears, Alaska Waste shifts dumpsters from Bell's Flats site
KODIAK — It’s more than they can bear. After brown bears repeatedly broke into a pair of roll-off dumpsters at Sargent Creek, Alaska Waste, in conjunction with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Kodiak Island Borough, is moving the dumpsters to a new site at Lash Dock. Though the dumpsters will be farther from homes, that will be a relief to those who have had to deal with the stench of bear-strewn gar...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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2011 Election Preview: One new face, one familiar face coming to Kodiak City Council
KODIAK — When it comes to age and experience, the two Kodiak City Council candidates on the Oct. 4 municipal ballot come from opposite ends of the balance. Randall Bishop is the 24-year-old co-owner and manager of the Mecca Lounge, who prides himself on his ambition and activity. Terry Haines is a 50-year-old commercial fisherman who values experience and feels he has much to offer as an expert on fisheries. They ...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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2011 Election Preview: Pat Branson prepares to become Kodiak Mayor
KODIAK — When October nears its end, Kodiak will have its first new mayor in almost two decades. City council member Pat Branson is running unopposed for the office and will replace sitting Mayor Carolyn Floyd, who is retiring. Branson was elected to the council in 2010, running unopposed for a one-year seat. That election was a switch for the longtime borough assembly member, who served on that body for 12 years....
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stage and screen: ‘The Debt’: Nazi hunters’ dilemma
Helen Mirren’s latest film, “The Debt,” recounts the horrors of the Holocaust and the frequently fruitless efforts to bring its perpetrators to justice. While the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 brought some of the criminals to justice, untold numbers of guilty parties were never held accountable. The main purpose of the trials was to establish a system of justice to judge the criminals ­— not to allow summary executi...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Students in the Interior Alaska village of Nikolai participate in the Media Action program, a federally funded workshop designed to teach rural students how to use digital filmmaking and editing equipment, in summer 2010. (Photo courtesy Marie Acemah)
Kodiak-based rural film program gets federal grant
KODIAK — A Kodiak-based nonprofit that teaches rural Alaska students to document their community and culture through film has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to give teachers across the state the knowledge and tools to do the same. The nonprofit, Media Action, partnered with the Atheneum School for a pilot project involving students in Nikolai last year. With students behind the...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The musicians of Isle Bells rehearse in the Green Room at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium Sept. 13. (Drew Herman photo)
Ringing true: The music of hand bells returns to Kodiak
If you’ve lived in Kodiak long enough, your ears may have detected a familiar ringing. About 20 years ago, school-age musicians delighted local audiences with the stirring, intricate dance of hand bell music at St. James the Fisherman Episcopal Church. In 2011, nine of those girls and some new friends are reviving the art in Isle Bells, a community hand bell choir preparing for a November concert premiere. “We hav...
Sep 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man charged after Bell’s Flats standoff
KODIAK — Alaska State Troopers resolved an armed standoff peacefully early Monday morning in Bell’s Flats. About 12 hours later, Anthony R. Morton, a 55-year-old resident of the area, was charged with third-degree assault, a class C felony, and reckless endangerment, a class A misdemeanor. Bail has been set at $5,000. As of Tuesday evening, Morton remained at Kodiak City Jail. According to court documents, trooper...
Sep 21, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kodiak man pleads innocent to attempted murder charge
KODIAK — A Kodiak man pled not guilty to a charge of attempted murder Friday afternoon in Kodiak Superior Court. Roy Naughton, 33, is accused of pointing a handgun at James A. Smith and pulling the trigger in the parking lot of the Marine Way Safeway liquor store on Aug. 28. According to a sworn affidavit by Kodiak police officer Michael Chiesa, who responded to a report of a fight in progress, Smith said he got i...
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