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The
Kodiak High School Bears held off a late charge
by Anchorage's Dimond High School to win the state championships in track and field
over the weekend.
The
Kodiak boys racked up 87 points to Dimond's 84.
Chugiak was third, with Lathrop and South Anchorage rounding out the top five.
The
Bears were led by The Levis, who each took home an individual championship, and
shared in another. Levi Fried won the 800-meters by less than a half-second in 2-minutes
and 18-onehundreth of a second. Levi Thomet was third and Clayton Hanna was third.
Thomet
wont the 1,600, with a time of 4-minutes 25-seconds. Cole Christiansen was third
in that race.
As
a team, Kodiak won the 3,200-relay and were second
in the 1,600 relay and fifth in the 400 relay.
The
Lady Bears tied for 16th with four points. The Dimond girls won with
81 points.
We
have full results after the jump.
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Last week a U.S. Senate subcommittee held a hearing about the importance of America’s small brewers to the economy. It was hosted by Alaska Senator Mark Begich, and he spoke with Kodiak’s Ben Millstein afterwards.
“It was great. There was about a dozen or so brewers from around the country with the Brewers Association, which is a national organization," Millstein said. "We were talking about our small business and how they contribute to communities. Different things we value: taking care of employees and sustainability, and we had a lot of interest from the senators, which was an honor to be here.”
Begich inquired about Kodiak Island Brewing Company’s new location downtown at the Y, and announced his plans to visit this week.
“Expanded tremendously and it’s been a lot of fun. It’s a great new spot,” Millstein said.
“So when you have Kodiak Crab Fest – which I will be at – maybe I’ll sample the brew," Begich said. "Because we had no samples here today, but that’s okay. Maybe next time.”
KMXT will try to catch up with the Senator during Crab Fest, which begins on Thursday.
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 Jay Barrett KMXT
The iconic Washington State Ferry that spent 20 years as a seafood processor in Kodiak’s Gibson Cove changed hands quietly late last year. Karl Anderson, a Tacoma business man didn’t buy the Kalakala necessarily to be the next person to try and restore it to its former Art Deco glory. Instead, he acquired it in exchange for delinquent moorage fees.
Former owner Steve Rodrigues, who reportedly went broke and sold his home in an effort to get the Kalakala restored, was not present at a foreclosure hearing in November where Anderson was given possession in exchange for $4,000 in back rent.
The aging ship was declared a hazard to navigation by the Coast Guard just over a year ago, as the agency is concerned it will come loose of its moorings and sink in the channel, according to Regina Caffree, a Coast Guard spokeswoman:
“If the Kalakala sinks it would block the entirety of the waterway,” she said. “And it could impact up to $23-million worth of commerce in one month.”
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In larger towns you often see businesses using different gimmicks to lure in customers, but not so much in a small town like Kodiak. Some use balloons or lights or dancing mascots out on the sidewalk. Well, the downtown Wells Fargo branch decided to try the mascot move last week. KMXT’s Jay Barrett caught up with him during a lull in the traffic.
The identity of whoever might have been in the costume is not known for sure, but the bank manager denies it was her.
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As spring works its way toward summer, more and more people will take to the water for recreational and commercial boating endeavors. During Thursday’s borough assembly meeting Borough Mayor Jerome Selby took the time to remind all boaters to be safe.
“On average 700 people die each year in boating related accidents in the United States. Nearly 70 percent of these are fatalities caused by drowning," Selby said. "And where as the vast majority of these accidents are caused by human error or poor judgment and a significant number of boaters lives could have been saved had they worn their Coast Guard approved personal flotation device.”
Selby read a proclamation recognizing this week as Safe Boating Week in Kodiak and the rest of the Nation. Coast Guard Auxillary Fotilla Commander Drew Herman accepted the proclamation and spoke a bit about what the week is all about.
“It’s not just a week. It’s all summer, it’s all year," he said. "Especially for Kodiak, where things are particularly tough on boaters. But we like to take this week to sort of highlight the safe boating message and recharge everybody’s memory about some of the ways we keep safe on the water.”
Herman said better outreach and education in recent years have lowered boating-related deaths in the United States.
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