Kodiak College

Aside from his decades in the legislature, Stephen spent years in public office through his time on the Kodiak City Council as a Kodiak Island Borough Assembly member, borough mayor, and on the local Board of Education.

Stevens, who is also 85 years old, also spent 25 years teaching at Kodiak College.

As for what's next, Stevens says he's in the middle of writing a play about events that took place during the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II.

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And so that relationship to education has always been really important to me.

He also spent 25 years teaching at Kodiak College.

Stevens is 85 years old, according to his previous campaign site.

So what's next for Stevens? He says he'll be serving on a Kodiak College advisory board, which is a University of Alaska Anchorage campus, and he is in the middle of writing a play about events that took place during the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II.

You can listen to the full interview with retiring state senator Gary Stevens on kmxt.org. And our final story for this week, the Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education is considering closing a school to balance its budget.

At a work session on September 8th, Kodiak School District Superintendent Daniel Brigman proposed three potential scenarios for next school year's budget.