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Kodiak school officials say they’re in touch with law enforcement after threats of violence surfaced on social media that’s part of a disturbing nationwide phenomenon. Geoff Smith, assistant superintendent for Kodiak Island School District, says the superintendent decided to ask for increased police presence in Kodiak’s schools. “He made arrangements and contacted local law enforcement agencies: …

The Koniag Education Foundation reached a longtime goal in mid-August, as their endowment reached $10 million dollars. It’s been a long journey to reach this point- Executive Director Jesse Kreger says that the organization started small with a $4,000 endowment nearly three decades ago. “Koniag Education Foundation was founded in 1994, by Koniag Incorporated. At …

Today (Tuesday) the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center reported twenty-six (26) new cases of COVID 19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. Sixteen cases were tested yesterday. The other ten were tested between October 25th and November 4th. Sixty-one (61) cases are currently classified as active locally. One active case is currently hospitalized in Kodiak, …

Crashed Wag-Aero 2+2 piloted by Derek Leichliter. Federal investigators are heading to Kodiak after a small plane crashed Sunday afternoon shortly after takeoff. Authorities have released few details on the 2 p.m. crash except to confirm that a 39-year-old Soldotna man piloting the plane was killed, a few hundred yards from the runway near Kodiak’s …

Today (Monday) the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center reported ten (10) new cases of COVID 19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. One case was considered travel related, the other cases were classified as community spread. Forty-eight (48) cases are currently classified as active locally. There are no active cases currently hospitalized in Kodiak. …

On Friday — the day Swift released her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department — she smashed the all-time Spotify record for most album streams in a single day, with more than 300 million.

The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center announced this (THURSDAY) afternoon that they have raised the community risk level from green to yellow. According to the EOC’s Community Mitigation Plan, the yellow risk level indicates a “Pandemic Alert Period”, prompting mask recommendations and limiting gatherings of people to fewer than 20 people. However, the EOC said that …

The Alutiiq Museum just last week put in its third round of commemorative bricks at the Alutiiq Ancestors Memorial Park. As the museum’s public program manager Djuna Davidson explains, the bricks can commemorate many different things. “Now we have four different sort of patches of bricks, and we did fundraising campaigns to help support the …

The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center has announced 33 new cases of COVID-19 for the Kodiak Island Borough. Among them are four community transmission cases, 19 unknown transmission cases, three travel related cases, and seven close contact cases. That adds up to 60 total cases reported this week, a number not seen since December of last …

Students and staff at Kodiak public schools will mask up this coming school year. Superintendent Larry LeDoux announced today (TUESDAY) that masks will be mandatory for all vaccinated and unvaccinated staff and students in school buildings and on buses. The announcement said that exceptions may be made with certain students’ individual education plans in mind. …