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Josh Krohn

General Manager

Josh is a graduate of the University of Nebraska with a degree in communications and broadcasting, and a Certified Audio Engineer through the Society of Broadcast Engineers.  At 13, he got his first taste for public radio when he interned at KBBI, an experience that shaped his career.  Josh returns to Homer after twelve years with Classical 90.7 KVNO, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was senior audio engineer and production coordinator. Previously he was station manager/general manager of KUHB-FM, St. Paul, Alaska, in the Pribilof Islands. 

  • The Homer City Council laid out its legislative priorities for the year and approved several items at its meeting last night. The Kenai Peninsula Borough won’t get kicked out of the federal government’s national flood insurance program.
  • Homer Chamber of Commerce held their annual meeting and auction on Tuesday this week at the recently opened and renamed Porcupine Theater on Pioneer Avenue. Sterling and Funny River have a new representative on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.
  • The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District on Monday published a list of nine schools it’s thinking about closing as a way to balance its budget for the upcoming fiscal year. For several years the U.S. Coast Guard’s emergency VHF radio system has experienced outages across Southeast and the Gulf of Alaska. Nine rural fire departments on the Kenai Peninsula are getting more than $80,000 in grants to boost firefighting efforts.
  • Polls are closed and unofficial results for municipal elections across the Kenai Peninsula Borough are rolling in. Pier One Theater has spent weeks on their fall production and will begin performing this Friday. Escaping postponement due to the threat of last week’s pending government shutdown, Katmai National Park and Preserve’s Fat Bear Week is here.
  • After 20 years with the Alaska SeaLife Center, Tara Riemer is stepping down as president and CEO. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District officials said rising costs have caused complications for its school building maintenance projects meant to be funded by a bond. A humpback whale was found dead- floating near Kodiak Island earlier last week. Federal and tribal workers brought the corpse to a nearby island last Tuesday to try to determine the cause of death.
  • In a legislative town hall Thursday night, Department of Transportation officials provided updates on major Kenai Peninsula road projects, and took questions from the public about road-related issues. The town hall was hosted by central peninsula legislators Sen. Jesse Bjorkman and Rep. Justin Ruffridge. Homeownership is a financially unattainable dream for a lot Alaskans. But there is a program that’s been banging along for years that puts it in reach of families who can put in time.
  • A new five-year plan for federal offshore oil and gas options includes no leases in Alaska waters. The City of Homer has been in talks with the US Army Corps of Engineers about expanding Homer Harbor for nearly twenty years, and began a feasibility study earlier this year. However, budget mixups and rising study costs could put the project on pause. Four people are running to fill two seats on Homer’s city council. Joni Wise is a first time candidate in this year’s election.
  • An annual autumnal tradition in Homer turns twenty this year, the Burning Basket is currently being constructed at Mariner Park at the base of the spit, and it will culminate with the burning ceremony this Sunday at sundown (about 8:30pm).
  • Wrangell’s Search and Rescue helped recover six people from a grounded boat Tuesday. The boat, which was about six miles south of Wrangell, was left aground by a rapidly dropping tide. Alaska’s wildfire season remains on track to be slowest on record.