Kodiak Daily Mirror

08/21/2024

Nothing annoys a journalist more than an uncontested election.

08/21/2024

Spending time in our enchanting woodlands while harvesting this year’s amazing blueberry abundance has been one of this summer’s highlight. If you haven’t noticed, the wild blueberries are high-yielding this summer! I rounded up two of my young best…

Spending time in our enchanting woodlands while harvesting this year’s amazing blueberry abundance has been one of this summer’s highlight. If you haven’t noticed, the wild blueberries are high-yielding this

08/21/2024

The U.S. Coast Guard will buy a commercial icebreaker and station it in Alaska’s capital city, the service confirmed Wednesday.

08/21/2024

Kodiak High School’s Cross Country Team and carpenter Steve Paulson recently completed work on a new viewing platform on the Dog Bay side of Near Island’s South End Trail. Paulson and Island Trails Network donated the lumber and other materials for …

Kodiak High School’s Cross Country Team and carpenter Steve Paulson recently completed work on a new viewing platform on the Dog Bay side of Near Island’s South End Trail. Paulson

08/20/2024

The Redington Huskies turned the tables on the Kodiak High School Bears football team Thursday.

08/20/2024

Have you spotted the return of the Looking Back column?

08/20/2024

This time of year brings back memories for me. On August 23, 1995 the sixty-eight foot longliner Moriah struck Segula Island, one of the Rat Islands in the far reaches of the Aleutian Island chain. Segula Island is a steep cone of volcanic rock thre…

This time of year brings back memories for me. On August 23, 1995 the sixty-eight foot longliner Moriah struck Segula Island, one of the Rat Islands in the far reaches

08/20/2024

A three-judge panel at 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower-court decision that could have temporarily halted troll fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska.

08/20/2024

Kodiak Pickleballers put on a clinic at this month’s Alaska International Senior games, taking five age-group gold medals and placing second, third or fourth place in two other categories.

08/20/2024

Bruce LaChance, an eager 20 year-old Navy radioman in 1964, was lost in the Kodiak wilderness for 10 days after embarking on a bear hunting trip, alone. LaChance recently returned to Kodiak, 60 years after his hunt, to pay homage to the wilderness …

Bruce LaChance, an eager 20 year-old Navy radioman in 1964, was lost in the Kodiak wilderness for 10 days after embarking on a bear hunting trip, alone. LaChance recently returned

08/19/2024

Kodiak College Admissions and Financial Aid Coordinator Nancy Castro is recipient of the 2024 UAA Chancellor’s Choice Award for Philanthropic Excellence. The award recognizes Castro’s dedication to enhancing educational opportunity and her philanthr…

Kodiak College Admissions and Financial Aid Coordinator Nancy Castro is recipient of the 2024 UAA Chancellor’s Choice Award for Philanthropic Excellence. The award recognizes Castro’s dedication to enhancing educational opportunity

08/19/2024

Water bottle, large orange buoy, green pop bottle, chip of unidentified green plastic, shampoo bottle, chunk of styrofoam, white broken bucket, left-behind flip-flop, another water bottle. A line tangled around multiple large driftwood logs.

Water bottle, large orange buoy, green pop bottle, chip of unidentified green plastic, shampoo bottle, chunk of styrofoam, white broken bucket, left-behind flip-flop, another water bottle. A line tangled around

08/16/2024

In previous columns I sought to provide answers to a question that surfaced during a recent Rotary meeting: How did World War II affect the people of Kodiak?

08/16/2024

Organizers of the 40th annual Stiles-Clark Auction hope to make the ruby anniversary of the popular event a special occasion.

08/16/2024

Even when the Alaska Legislature is out of session, the Alaska Marine Highway System’s “Ferry Godmother,” Kodiak Representative Louise Stutes, stays hard at work to ensure AMHS stays vital.

08/15/2024

The Kodiak-based U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley located a Russian intelligence-gathering naval vessel Monday south of the Aleutian Islands.

08/15/2024

Alaska U.S Senator Lisa Murkowski spoke briefly, took questions and greeted municipal officials Wednesday at the Alaska Municipal League Summer gathering.

08/14/2024

More than 100 Russian Orthodox Church members from around the world visited Kodiak last weekend for the annual St. Herman’s Pilgrimage on Spruce Island.

08/14/2024

Richard Gonzalez knows how popular football was when it was introduced to the island two decades ago.

08/13/2024

People do not want to know the true life story of most of the proteins on their plate. We prefer to imagine that the butcher waves his cleaver and magically makes meat. And for good reason.

People do not want to know the true life story of most of the proteins on their plate. We prefer to imagine that the butcher waves his cleaver and magically

08/13/2024

Now as quiet as wind whispering through grass, a plateau rising from the flats of northern Alaska was for thousands of years a lookout for ancient Alaskans. Those people later vanished, perhaps moving on to populate the Americas. A scientist is usin…

Now as quiet as wind whispering through grass, a plateau rising from the flats of northern Alaska was for thousands of years a lookout for ancient Alaskans. Those people later

08/13/2024

I had a radio show all through college, playing sometimes questionable punk rock songs into the sometimes wee hours of the morning over the airwaves to a small campus in Upstate New York.

I had a radio show all through college, playing sometimes questionable punk rock songs into the sometimes wee hours of the morning over the airwaves to a small campus in

08/13/2024

With the American Legion A state title game on the line, Kodiak’s Gavin Peterson delivered the decisive blow that put the Kenai Twins in celebration mode.

08/13/2024

The Alaska Municipal League begins its annual Summer Legislative Conference today at Kodiak Marketplace.

08/13/2024

Area M salmon fishermen who work the north side of the Alaska Peninsula are hoping for stability going into an uncertain future as longtime processor Peter Pan Seafoods’ assets go up for auction this month.

Area M salmon fishermen who work the north side of the Alaska Peninsula are hoping for stability going into an uncertain future as longtime processor Peter Pan Seafoods’ assets go

08/13/2024

Laurie Duncan got her pink slip at the end of April, after her second year teaching first grade at Xóots Elementary in Sitka. She got the news during her prep period. She was three months pregnant.

Laurie Duncan got her pink slip at the end of April, after her second year teaching first grade at Xóots Elementary in Sitka. She got the news during her prep

08/12/2024

A Kodiak woman is facing drunk driving and child endangerment charges after a June incident in which her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident.

08/12/2024

Expectations were low this year for the pink salmon runs that power Prince William Sound’s commercial fishing industry.

08/12/2024

Saturday

08/12/2024

During last week’s “atmospheric river” of moisture (thank you, Hawaii) I ventured into the hoophouse to check on things.