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Carol Lampl at East Addition. Jennifer Canfield photo Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The Kenai Central softball team visited Kodiak for the opening games of the season. The Lady Bears varsity team won 10-3 on Friday, but lost 16-9 on Saturday. The Kardinals sent the Bears down in the bottom of the ninth in just minutes. Carole Lampl is a senior on the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Thursday night the Kodiak City Council approved an appropriation for repairs to the water main on Rezanof Drive East, from about the Near Island Bridge to the top of Signal Hill. City Manager Aimee Kniaziowski explained the need for the emergency repairs.

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak High School boys dominated the field at the Skyview Invitational over the weekend, racking up 100 points for the win. Grace Christian was second with 68 points, followed by Anchorage Christian School in third with 55. Houston and Colony rounded out the top five. The Bears were led by Cole Christiansen’s wins in the 800 and …

Jennifer Canfield/KMXT The City of Kodiak has been drawing on its general fund to cover increasing costs, but without additional revenue or drastic cuts that fund could be depleted. Last night the Kodiak City Council gave the first reading of an ordinance that would increase the sales tax from six percent to seven percent. The ordinance would also increase the …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The City of Kodiak’s ultra violet secondary drinking water treatment equipment is up and running. Floyd Damron of the engineering firm CH2M Hill gave city council members an overview of the work on Tuesday night. Kodiak’s water is not filtered, and its primary treatment is with chlorine. However, as Damron says, that is not enough to make it …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The latest opportunity for the public to view the progress being made on designing Kodiak’s new library is coming up Friday night. Designers from MRV Architects will be in town, and are bringing a computerized 3-D walkthrough of the building, which is about 60-percent completed.

Coming up this week, the gillnet herring fishery in Southeast could be going on as we speak, after fishermen were put on two-hour notice Monday night; Now is the time to start getting prepared for new fishing vessel safety regs going into effect next y ear, and putting on your best face when the fish council comes to town. We …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Kodiak’s two governing bodies are meeting separately tonight at 7:30 – the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will hold a work session downstairs of the borough building, while the Kodiak City Council will hold a regular meeting upstairs in the Assembly Chambers. The top item on the council agenda of course is the introduction of an ordinance to increase …