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With the appointment and confirmation of new U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell, the outgoing secretary, Ken Salazar, took the opportunity to hold a “good bye” chat online with supporters.
When asked by Dillingham fisherman Verner Wilson about protections for Bristol Bay salmon, he said it should remain off-limits to non-renewable resource extraction.
“Bristol Bay is one of the iconic places of America that should be protected, and protected forever. The president and I, in putting together plans for the outer continental shelf, put Bristol Bay off limits to oil and gas development. That’s under the current authority that we have with regard to one law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. My personal hope is we continue build on that protection so that Bristol Bay is in fact protected forever.”
Salazar was President Obama’s interior secretary from 2009 to earlier this year.
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A Kodiak resident who ran the Boston Marathon today is safe and uninjured after twin explosions occurred near the finish line just before 3 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. ADT). Howard Valley, 64, finished his race roughly 40 minutes before the blasts and said he was walking away from the area when he heard the commotion.
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Boston Marathon runner Howard Valley, 64, from Kodiak is safe
and uninjured according to his wife Aeran. She said Mr. Valley finished the
race at 2:10 p.m. EDT (10:10 a.m. ADT), about an hour before the blasts
occurred near the finish line.
Coast Guardsman Matthew Breckel, once stationed in Kodiak,
was in the race and is reported by friends to be OK as well.
Forty-one
(41) Alaskans were registered for the race.
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A long time fixture in the halls of the state capital retired yesterday. He was an even longer fixture in Kodiak, and is now on his way out of state. Doug Letch, aide to Senator Gary Stevens attended his final legislative hearings late last week in the State House, sitting in for his boss.
Letch was answering questions from the House Finance Committee about Stevens’ bill expanding the Marine Transportation Advisory Board by one seat and designating it for the Homer-Kodiak area.
The committee was receptive to the bill, and discussion soon turned to Letch’s retiremen, when Representative Bill Stoltz took a few minutes to say goodbye to Letch and praise his hard work over the years.
Letch first came to Kodiak as a newscaster for KMXT radio, after working at public radio stations in Dillingham and McGrath. He was one of the founders of the Kodiak Football League over a decade ago.
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Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell was in Colorado Springs last week participating in the National Space Symposium, in conjunction with the annual business meeting of the Aerospace States Association, which he chairs.
While there, Treadwell invited the aerospace community to consider Alaska, and particularly the Kodiak Launch Complex, as a strategic resource for the nation.
He said state policies help Alaska become a leader in space, from infrastructure, such as the KLC, to science, technology, engineering and math education programs in the schools.
He said Alaska’s space leadership for the next generation depends on having kids who are excited about the amazing things space activity does for earth every day.
The 29th National Space Symposium, hosted annually by the Space Foundation, gathered 9,000 members of the worldwide aerospace community to discuss the industry's outlook. The agenda included a special focus on the industry's role in cyber security and America's role in space.
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