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            Museum Advocacy Day was on Tuesday and a handful of representatives from Kodiak’s museum community spoke on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock about the week-long push to garter support for local, statewide and national museums. Tiffany Brunson is the interim executive director of the Baranov Museum and said a lot of the action on museum advocacy day occurs in Washington D.C.
 

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            There’s a new group in town, and it’s looking to learn more about Kodiak’s history. Anjuli Grantham is the curator of collections at the Baranov Museum and brainchild behind Kodiak History Detectives. She said the idea for the group came to her after hearing about something similar in Washington State. She said various organizations are working together in Washington to train individuals on how to collect, research and better document information about the state’s relatively unknown role in the Civil War. Grantham said the state’s method of crowd sourcing research isn’t just effective in gathering information, but also educating and engaging a community in local history.

            While born from the mission in Washington, Kodiak History Detectives aren’t researching the Civil War. Instead, Grantham organized the group to look at various under researched eras in Alaska’s history.

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             The National Weather Service is changing some of its language related to winter weather, or at least proposing to do so. Aimee Fish is the acting warning coordination meteorologist for the Anchorage Forecast Office with the National Weather Service and said the hope is to simplify wording to make important weather information more understandable.

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           Not all bears choose to hibernate during the winter -- a fact which has been very evident in Kodiak the last few weeks. A handful of bears have been spotted just outside of town, in Bells Flats and out toward Monashka Bay. Kodiak Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele said it’s not uncommon for bears to come out for short periods of time during the winter, but this year’s sightings are definitely unusual.