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Terry Haines presents the Midday Report featuring the weekly update from the Kodiak Emergency Operations Center, and state and local stories, plus, Alaska Fish Radio, and the weather forecast and community events.

Another 500 absentee votes from Kodiak were received by the Alaska Division of Elections yesterday, raising Kodiak’s mail-in total to 3,063 ballots, a record for the district. Adding these ballots to the Election Day total of 4,022 gives Kodiak a voter turnout of nearly 7,100, a few hundred short of the record set in 2016 …

Stay tuned for this Wednesday’s midday news report with host Terry Haines as he covers topics including: A snapshot at how the State and Kodiak are leaning on our two ballot measures and candidates. Another local Covid-19 update How the Petersburg school board is responding to testing needs for staff and students. All that and …

Kodiak’s COVID-19 count rose by three more cases on Tuesday, which brings the total number of cases in the past two weeks to 42. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says one of the new cases involves a Kodiak resident who traveled recently. The other two cases haven’t been classified yet, because they are still …

As elsewhere in the nation, a day of decision is underway on Kodiak Island. In the outlying villages, voting will take place in community halls and other gathering places. In the city of Kodiak, there are four polling stations: Kodiak Precinct Number 1, in front of the Gerald Wilson Auditorium at the Kodiak High School. …

Cones marking testing lanes are packed away, as cars line up for COVID testing. COVID-19 continues to gain traction in Kodiak. The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center says four new cases were detected since Friday evening. Two cases are Kodiak residents who recently traveled. The other is a close contact of a previous case, and the …

On August 18th, it looked like Kodiak Senator Gary Stevens had lost his bid for re-election. John Cox, his challenger in Republican primary, was ahead by 69 votes. After the absentee ballots were counted, Stevens pulled out 240 votes ahead. Stevens represents Senate District P, a sprawling district which takes in Kodiak, Homer and Seldovia, …

Kodiak is dancing with yellow. That’s according to Kodiak’s Emergency Services Director Mike Tvenge. “Right now, we’re in the green level. As Kermit the Frog says, it’s not easy being green. But we’re dancing up against the next yellow risk level.” Even though Tvenge did not elevate Kodiak’s risk level at Thursday’s Emergency Operation Center …

Kodiak is seeing another spike in COVID-19 cases, with a dozen new positive tests reported on Wednesday. Since Friday, there have been a total of 20 new cases. All of them involve Kodiak residents. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says eleven of those are close contacts of people in cases previously reported. One is …

The principal of the Kodiak High School sent out a letter to parents Tuesday night to tell them he has tested positive for COVID-19. Letter to Community 10-27-20 In his message, Neil Hecht said there were several reasons he shared his story. First of all, he wanted to assure parents that their children were safe. Hecht …