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2 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Kodiak Community Health Center has a new CEO. Olivera Wilson is spending her first months in the job learning and listening. The 33-year-old is on a fast track. She holds a PhD in business administration from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, is pursuing a second doctorate, in healthcare leadership, from Carolina University, and is earning a fellowship at the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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2 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
A 30-foot gray whale found dead on a remote beach near Pasagshak Point showed evidence of being killed by orca whales, Sunaq Tribe biologist Matt Van Daele said Wednesday. The young male showed certain signs of a fatal underwater encounter. Life ain’t easy down there. “We’re most likely sure that it’s an orca mortality, based on the fact that his tongue is missing, and all the flesh on his lower jaws, and all the blubber and muscle was actually flensed off of his face.
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3 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Kodiak-based U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro and an Air Station Kodiak C-130 worked a fire aboard the 600-foot vehicle carrier Morning Midas about 300 nautical miles south of Adak on Wednesday. All 22 crew members aboard the Morning Midas evacuated the ship aboard a life raft and were subsequently rescued by the crew of motor vessel Cosco Hellas, one of the good Samaritan vessels on scene, with no reported injuries, according to a Coast Guard press release.
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3 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Kodiak Collaborative’s proposed afterschool program for elementary school students got a big boost Tuesday, when Alaska YMCA and the Kodiak Island Borough School District signed a Memorandum of Agreement to use three district schools as afterschool sites. The district will provide space at East, Main and Peterson elementary schools for YMCA-administered after school activities at each site.
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3 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Island Trails Network is looking for volunteers Saturday to finish a facelift for the popular Spruce Cape Trail. The bucket and shovel work will complete the project started in last month’s big gravel airlift, when Fairbanks-based Alaska Air National Guard Chinook Helicopters airlifted 14 one-ton-plus “supersacks” of crushed rock to the cape. On Saturday, ITN and Alaska State Parks will lead volunteers in spreading eight tons of gravel in the muddy spots along the 1.6-mile trail.
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4 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Kodiak 17-year-old Scout DeVries feels fortunate and much-loved after a May 23 moped accident left her with a badly-broken leg that will take months to heal. The Monashka Bay Road accident has the recent Kodiak High School graduate healing at home this summer, instead of joining her brother on his first Bristol Bay gillnetting season. But her disappointment is tempered by the gratitude she’s feeling for her survival, and for the outpouring of concern and love from community and family members.
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4 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating an apparently accidental spill of up to 50 gallons of diesel fuel Sunday afternoon on streets between the Petro Express near Safeway and Mission Lake. Kodiak Emergency Manager Rich Gonzalez said the Kodiak Fire Department responded to a call that a pickup truck was leaking fuel down Benny Benson Drive out of a storage tank in the bed.
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5 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The second of three new U.S. Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters to be homeported in Kodiak arrived Friday. The Earl Cunningham joins USCGC John Witherspoon at USCG Base Kodiak. The Cunningham will be commissioned into service at a ceremony at Base Kodiak later this year. The Witherspoon was commissioned into service last April. The Sentinel-class ships are two of the 67 FRCs replacing the Coast Guard’s 1980s-vintage Island-class 110-foot patrol boats.
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5 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The headhunting firm in charge of finding a new Kodiak City Manager has narrowed down its list of candidates from 41 to five. Colin Baenziger and Associates are recommending the city conduct interviews with each of the five. The Kodiak City Council will consider how to proceed at a special meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at the Kodiak Public Library. “We believe all the candidates are very strong and that most, if not all, would do an excellent job for Kodiak,” the firm noted.
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6 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The new Kodiak Island Borough Local Emergency Planning Committee or LEPC, is seeking more members prior to being recognized by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. EPA administers the “Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act,” which helps increase the public’s knowledge and access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment.
