Culu’ulluku; Culurt’slluku – Beach It PaRag’uutateng culurtaarait. – Sometimes they beach their boat. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken.) Most fishermen who know Alutiiq words are familiar with culu’ulluku, a term that means to beach your boat. Whether intentional or accidental, beaching is an age-old way of reaching the shore. In classical Alutiiq […]
62-year-old James Wells, the man charged with the killings of 41-year-old Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and 51-year-old retired Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle while they worked at the Coast Guard Communication Station on the Coast Guard base in Kodiak on April 12, 2012, was found guilty of Murder on Friday. The verdict […]
Alaska State Troopers are asking Kodiak residents to be vigilant of their surroundings after a bear was possibly shot and wounded in a subdivision in the city of Kodiak Tuesday morning. Alaska Wildlife Troopers and ADF&G responded to the Woodland Acres subdivision in Kodiak this morning after being informed of a Kodiak Bear killing chickens. […]
In what Kodiak police are calling the largest drug bust ever made by the Kodiak Police Department, on arrest was made and nearly 2 ounces of heroin and more than a pound and a half of methamphetamine were seized from room 110 of the Russian heritage in in a raid mid morning on Saturday. Kodiak […]