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6 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
A group of Kenai Peninsula Republicans have launched a campaign to kick longtime Kodiak Republican Gary Stevens out of the party. The Senate President is too moderate, they say, and doesn’t agree with them on traditional closed party primary elections. They say Stevens broke party rules by forming a bipartisan Senate coalition with more Senate Democrats onboard than party rules allow. The bipartisan coalition to which Stevens belongs is made up of five Republicans and four Democrats.
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6 days ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education passed a preliminary FY26 school budget Monday. After four-months of consideration, which included the closure of North Star Elementary School and 35 staff positions cut, the budget comes in about $1 million less than the current years. It goes next to the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, which must decide May 29 whether to add the district’s full $12.9 million request for local funding to the $50.7 million spending plan.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center Administrator Karl Hertz is stepping down to take a similar position in Soldotna. Hertz announced his decision to leave at Thursday’s Borough Assembly meeting. He’ll take the job as Chief Operating Officer at Soldotna’s Central Peninsula Hospital. Hertz came to Kodiak in 2021 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Kodiak Island Borough’s Community Development Department will hold another workshop to solicit ideas and solutions to Kodiak’s housing shortage. The workshop, set for 6 to 9 p.m. at the Kodiak High School cafeteria (use the main entrance), is meant to help develop goals, objectives and policies related to land use and housing issues in the borough. It’s part of PLAN 2045, the borough’s first revision of its comprehensive plan in 17 years.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Senator Dan Sullivan is touting a Thursday Executive Order by President Donald Trump to tighten seafood imports, review American fisheries regulations and expand the U.S. and international seafood markets. The order “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness” dated April 17, notes that 90% of the seafood purchased in the U.S. is imported, and the U.S. trade deficit stands currently at $20 billion.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Freshman Congressman Nick Begich spent about 24 hours in Kodiak during this week’s ComFish Alaska. After tours of U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak and the Pacific Spaceport Complex at Narrow Cape and meetings with municipal officials, Begich turned out for a luncheon at ComFish, and delivered the following remarks, which have been edited for clarity. ALASKA FISHERIES “We’re working in Washington to support the future of Alaska fisheries. Let’s start with workforce development.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The Kodiak Arts Council’s last performance of the 2024-25 season features a trio of versatile performers in a show “as personal as a house concert, engaging as dinner theatre and unpredictable as an improv show.”Parlor in the Round is a two-part show, starting off as a songwriter showcase, and transforming into improv scenes and songs, based on audience member’s written suggestions and the three performers’ collaboration.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
The Kodiak History Museum is seeking digital files — photos, articles, audio and video recordings, stories and more — to create an online Kodiak public school archive called “Memories in the Hall.” With the upcoming consolidation of North Star Elementary School’s student body into the Kodiak Island Borough School District’s East, Main and Peterson elementary schools, the museum is looking to commemorate North Star’s transition and collect additional Kodiak school materials to the museum...
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
NOAA’s Alaska Science and Research Director said the agency will continue its mission to provide the science behind commercial fisheries management decisions, despite cuts to research across the government. Dr. Bob Foy told attendees at ComFish Alaska Wednesday that NOAA has a great relationship with Alaska coastal communities, which back NOAA’s mission to provide science and services to support productive, sustainable fisheries.
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1 week ago | 
kodiakdailymirror.com | Steve Williams
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski sat with members of the Kodiak press Tuesday morning to talk about various federal issues affecting Alaska. Here’s an edited transcript of the conversation. Question: Funding for St. Herman Harbor was knocked out of the Continuing Resolution recently passed to keep the government running. How do we get that back? Murkowski: So what we’re doing is we have solicited again from the communities the projects they want to see advanced.
