Uganik — Unganuut Suuget Unganuuni etaallriit. — People used to live on Uganik. Tucked deep into the protected shoreline of Uganik Bay’s Northeast Arm, Uganik Village was a small Alutiiq community inhabited until around 1916. Alutiiq people were living in the village when Russian traders arrived on Kodiak in the late 1700s. The community was […]
KODIAK, Anchorage— The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 56-year-old man from a fishing vessel near Uganik Bay, Alaska, Saturday. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Air Station Kodiak hoisted the crewman from fishing vessel Caiti Jo and transported him to awaiting emergency medical services in Kodiak at 7:00 p.m. Watchstanders at the Sector Anchorage command center received […]
While on a deer hunting trip on Sally Island in Uganik Bay on Kodiak Island on Tuesday, deer hunter, 68-year-old Sitka resident Michael Snowden was attacked by a brown bear. Snowden’s leg was severely injured in the attack. Snowden’s hunting partner, 38-year-old Jeff Ostrin of Camas, Washington, shot the bear as it was attacking Snowden. […]