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            A group of Kodiak High School’s girls’ volleyball players are prepping to go to a tournament in Phoenix this summer.
            KMXT’s Maggie Wall talked with the coach and several of the girls on the team about the trip and about volleyball in Kodiak.

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           Kodiak’s local brewery got some national attention over the weekend, with a short review appearing in the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday Travel section. Writer Lauren Krause paid a visit to the new location of Kodiak Island Brewing Company and praised the décor and the exclusivity of the beers, noting that they can’t be found anywhere else.
            In the article, owner Ben Millstein explained why he did not export his beer, saying if every local brewery tried to ship their brew, it’d take a beer store the size of a Wal-Mart to handle it. Instead, he said he prefers to serve the local community and keeping his carbon footprint low.
            Why was the review in the Travel section of the Trib? Because, as Krause wrote, “a taste test will cost you about $1,000 – the price of a round-trip ticket” from the Lower 48.

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             Despite casting a wide net to find a new Kodiak Island Borough manager, it appears the assembly only needed to look down the hall for a suitable candidate. At Thursday’s special meeting the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly held an executive session and returned to direct the borough clerk to begin negotiations with Bud Cassidy for the position.
            After a six month, nationwide search, the manager’s job was offered to Erick Strahl of Michigan, in early October. After initially agreeing to take the job, he subsequently turned it down.
            Cassidy has been the acting manager since June when Rick Gifford moved on. He has been the director of the borough’s Community Development Department, which provides planning zoning services to the borough and various commissions and committees.

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            The Kodiak City Council was resourceful with funds last week when it unanimously approved utilizing leftover money from the ultraviolet water treatment plant to design the pump house upgrades in Monashka Bay. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski detailed exactly where the funds would come from during Thursday’s regular meeting.
            Kniaziowski said starting the design process for the pump house will give Kodiak a head start in asking for funding from the state for construction.
            The pump house has been an area of concern for quite some time due to is deteriorating condition and critical role it plays in the community. Councilman John Whiddon echoed Kniasiowski’s hopes that having the design completed will give Kodiak a good chance at acquiring additional funds.     
            While the pump house discussion revolved around improving existing infrastructure, the council also discussed tearing down a different building in Kodiak. During Thursday’s meeting the council approved the appropriation of additional funds for the demolition of the old Kodiak Police Department building. Kniaziowski said preliminary engineering work needed to be done before demolition because the building shares a wall and some utilities with the existing fire house. She said the full amount of the demolition was not known until now.
            The exact date and schedule of the work was not provided during the meeting.