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[instrumental music] Hello, and welcome to the KMXT Weekly Wrap, where we go over this week's news from Alaska's Emerald Isle.

I'm your host, Katherine Irving.

On this week's recap, we get the first of a two-part series about hatcheries.

I think of Alaska as being pristine, but yet it's dominated by hatchery salmon.

More on that story later, but first...

Support for KMXT comes from the Kodiak Area Native Association's Substance Use Treatment Team.

Talk with your kids about drugs and tobacco.

No matter how young children are, talking with them is one of the best things you can do to keep them drug and tobacco-free.

[instrumental music] Hello, and welcome to the KMXT Weekly Wrap, where we go over this week's news from Alaska's Emerald Isle.

I'm your host, Katherine Irving.

On this week's recap, the head of NASA comes to Kodiak.

They want to bring their payloads to Kodiak and launch them on, you know, a, a rocket, uh, launch provider that would launch out of Kodiak.

More on that story later, but first...

Support for KMXT comes from the Kodiak Area Native Association's Substance Use Treatment Team.

Talk with your kids about drugs and tobacco.

No matter how young children are, talking with them is one of the best things you can do to keep them drug and tobacco-free.

Hello and welcome to the KMXT Weekly Wrap, where we go over this week's news from Alaska's Emerald Isle.

I'm your host, Davis Hovey.

On this week's recap, the superintendent of the Kodiak Island Borough School District, Daniel Brighman, resigned this week after spending less than three months on the job.

Federal prosecutors said in court filings earlier this month, Dr. John Kohler, the clinic's medical director and owner, allegedly avoided paying accurate income taxes over several years.

Kohler is expected to enter a plea at an October 9th hearing at the U.S. District Court in Anchorage.

He declined to comment and instead referred KMXT to his attorney, Dunnington Bapp of Anchorage.

Bapp said via email, quote, Out of respect for the court process, we will not comment during the pendency of the litigation.

At this stage, we have not seen all of the discovery, but Dr. Kohler is presumed innocent.

Hello and welcome to the KMXT Weekly Wrap, where we go over this week's news from Alaska's Emerald Isle.

I'm your host, Katherine Irving.

On this week's recap, researchers looked to a shipwreck that dumped toys in the ocean to help study the movement of nutrients.

The Kodiak Police Department and state wildlife troopers attempted to scare off a juvenile brown bear that appeared near Main Elementary School this Friday afternoon.

According to a Facebook post from the Kodiak Island Borough School District, the bear showed up right at lunchtime at around 12.23 p.m. As a precaution, all students from Main Elementary and the nearby Kodiak Middle School and Kodiak High School were kept inside for the rest of the school day, according to the district.

Kodiak Police and Alaska State Troopers arrived on the scene at around 12.30 p.m. Kodiak Deputy Chief of Police Francis De La Fuente wrote to KMXT in a text message that they were attempting to push the bear back towards the Pillar Mountain area using non-lethal guns with noise-making shells.

However, De La Fuente says the bear disappeared into the woods between the Aquatic Center and the softball field on Mill Bay Road.

Kodiak police and wildlife troopers remained on the scene until around 4 p.m. to make sure students were safe leaving school.

From KMXT in Kodiak, it's the Alaska Fisheries Report.

I'm Terry Haynes.

Support for the Alaska Fisheries Report comes from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, working to raise the value of our seafood harvest for the benefit of all Alaskans.

On the web at alaskaseafood.org.

KMXT is supported in part by Pacific Marine Expo, a tradition in the commercial fishing community for over 50 years.

Returning to Seattle, Washington, November 19th through the 21st at the Seattle Convention Center.

Information about this year's show can be found at PacificMarineExpo.com.

So it's just a matter of making this transition, you know, getting out of my office, getting everything brought to Kodiak and stored and all of that.

Stevens was speaking during KMXT's public affairs show last week.

According to legislative records, over his long tenure across the House and Senate, Stevens was the primary sponsor of 35 bills that became state laws, plus 14 resolutions that lawmakers adopted.

He focused mainly on fisheries and education.

In other news, all four candidates running to be the next governor of Alaska were in Kodiak on Wednesday evening, September 9th, for this year's fisheries debate.

The debate, hosted by KMXT and the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, revealed each candidate's approach to fisheries management.

During an opening series of Yes or No questions, Jonathan Christ-Thompkins was the only candidate who said they have been commercial fishing before.

Christ-Thompkins of Sitka is the lone Democrat in the field of four.

He's not going to call another one.

So it's just a matter of making this transition, you know, getting out of my office, getting everything brought to Kodiak and stored and all of that.

Stevens was speaking during KMXT's public affairs show on Tuesday, September 15th.

Cleaning out his office at the State Capitol building in Juneau may take some time.