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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...
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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 ...
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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 Bee...
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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 ...
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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 di...
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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 th...
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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 ...
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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 S...
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