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Almost $6,000 cash stolen in Larsen Bay
Alaska State Troopers are investigating a $5,900 theft in Larsen Bay. According to troopers, cash was stolen from an account at the city office. A city official notified troopers of the theft on Oct. 5. Initial investigations revealed that $5,906 was taken sometime between Aug. 30 and Oct. 1. The city office declined to make a comment as it is an active investigation. Charges have not been filed. Contact the Mirro...
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Team Jimenez won the Senior Dribblers title Thursday at the Kodiak Middle School gym. From, left: Jairom Barnett, Billy Alcaide, Germain Jimenez, Eric Alas, Darwin Lacaste and Katrina Courcheine. Nolan Wandersee is not pictured. (Photo courtesy of City of Kodiak Parks and Recreation)
Local Results: Oct. 17
Little Dribblers Brechan 37, Redgate 21 Louis Rocheleau 17 points, Kevin Maramba 6, Wesley Walker 6, Taylor Evans 4 and Abraham Fields 4 for Brechan. Ken Caldejon 10 points, Isaih Montalbo 7 and Davis Mckechnie 4 for Redgate. Senior Dribblers Tuesday, Oct. 9 Team Jimenez 77, iTeam 61 Germain Jimenez 37 points, Eric Alas 24, Billy Alcaide 14 and Darwin Lacaste 2 for Team Jimenez. Jeffery Keodoungdy 27 points, Ryan...
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A dump truck hauls three bales of garbage to the working face of the Kodiak Island Borough Landfill Monday morning, Oct. 15, 2012 during a Solid Waste Advisory Board tour of the facility. (James Brooks photo)
Garbage-saavy Kodiakans seek a present solution for a future problem
On one side of a 35-degree gravel embankment is a towering pile of trash. On the other is a muddy pit. Together, these two spaces in the Kodiak Island Borough Landfill are the present and future of trash collection in Kodiak. The current landfill and its hill of gravel-covered garbage is 10 feet short of a regulatory cutoff height. The nearby pit, soon to be lined in plastic and piping, will serve Kodiak’s garbage...
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UAF's Research Vessel Sikuliaq crashes into the Menominee River on a rainy day at Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis. (Robin Wood photo)
After four decades and two bottles of champagne, UAF’s boat launches in Wisconsin
MARINETTE, WIS. — Vera Alexander worried the champagne bottle wouldn’t break. The professor and dean emeritus of UAF’s School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) served as a co-sponsor of the UAF research vessel Sikuliaq, which launched here on Saturday. That meant she was the one to give the ship’s blessing then crack a bottle of champagne against the bow. Rain alternately spit and fell in windy sheets at the...
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A pair of 10-kilometer runners finish at the Bear Valley Golf Course during Saturday’s KMXT Run the Rock. (Derek Clarkston photo)
McCarthy mishap gives Valley half-marathon win
Julian McCarthy was on his way to winning KMXT’s Run the Rock half-marathon when he decided to extend his run. Instead of turning around at the half-marathon turnaround on Antone Larsen Road, McCarthy kept chugging along to the marathon turnaround. “I never saw the turnaround,” McCarthy said. “The guy was there and said, ‘Good job, do you want any Gatorade?’ I kept going and got to the end of the road and though...
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Art therapist Deborah Davis stands by a quilt in her office that is made with the different art mediums she uses with her patients, at the Providence Kodiak Island Counseling Center on Oct. 15. (Nicole Klauss photo)
Art therapy new to counseling center
Deborah Davis' office at the Providence Kodiak Island Counseling Center looks like an art classroom. The shelves along one wall hold jars of colored pencils and markers, craft books and ribbons, and a quilt that reads "art is freedom" hangs on another wall. Davis uses the craft supplies with her patients in a new form of counseling called art therapy. Art therapy encourages expression through art, and helps break ...
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Fishing fatalities jump in 2011, but long-term trend is toward safety
When the fishing boat Kodiak Isle struck a rock last weekend, Jennifer Lincoln saw it as a victory. She wasn’t referring to the boat, now aground on Sitkinak Island and being salvaged. Instead, she was referring to the boat’s five-man crew, which safely abandoned ship and was rescued by the Coast Guard. “That’s a fantastic success story,” she said. “They used their gear, they called the Coast Guard, and they survi...
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Bering Sea crab season opens
Bering Sea crab season opened Monday, and as fishermen drop their pots for king crab, they’re fishing for a quota roughly the same as last year’s. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has set a Bristol Bay red king crab harvest of 7.85 million pounds, up slightly over last year’s quota of 7.834 million pounds. Those crab could fetch a good price, if the summer Norton Sound king crab fishery is any indication. Ac...
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City-owned boatyard rebranded as shipyard
The city-owned Kodiak Boatyard is now officially the Kodiak Shipyard. The name change comes after 10 years of planning, two years of construction and three years of operation. "The distinction between a boatyard and shipyard is hard to pin down, but after three years of operation it's obvious to me that our yard is in the shipyard class," said Kodiak Harbormaster Marty Owen in a release. Shipyard operations manage...
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Obama is doomed to defeat
To the editor: While walking my dog the other day, a very capable, intelligent raven whispered to me let the people know, that there will be a landslide victory in favor of Romney and Ryan. They will get 320 electoral votes to sweep the election in November. Obama can start packing, and all the Marxist, socialist radicals can leave with him. The American people have had enough of the lies and coverups. We have Fa...
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