OLD HARBOR, Alaska — Alaska National Guardsmen from the 207th Engineer Utility Detachment teamed up with service members from across the Department of Defense to participate in an Innovative Readiness Training runway extension project here, April 17 – May 1, 2017. Led by U.S. Marine Forces Reserve, this year’s four-month project is part of a […]
[wds id=”6″] Kodiak Island Village Cleanup Kodiak, AK, April 10, 2017: From June 2015 to December 2016, the village communities in the Kodiak Island Archipelago participated in a massive clean-up effort resulting in 2,625.5 tons of scrap metal. 27,939 pounds of lead acid batteries, 1,715 pounds of electronic waste, twenty-nine 55-gallon drums of contaminated fuel […]
The Kodiak Island-based Alaska State Troopers revealed on Wednesday that they had been notified of a diving fatality that had been brought to the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center on Sunday. It was at 1:36 pm on Sunday that it was reported to troopers that diver, 36-year-old Gary Graves was medevaced from the fishing vessel […]
Nuniaq – Old Harbor Nuniarmiuq-qaa ellpet? – Are you an Old Harbor person? The community of Old Harbor (Nuniaq) has its origins in the era of Russian conquest. In 1784, Russian traders massacred several hundred Alutiiq men, women, and children at Refuge Rock, a tiny island off the eastern coast of Sitkalidak Island. In Alutiiq, […]