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Poet’s Corner: Cold anf Flu Season

Cold and Flu Season By Hedy Huss, Soldotna It’s the cold and flu season. The calendar says your…

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What’s Happening

Events and Exhibitions ■ “Outside the Palace, ” a collection of works by Celia Anderson, is on display…

In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Ben Affleck appears in a scene from "The Accountant." (Chuck Zlotnick/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

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Not bad, but ‘The Accountant’ just doesn’t add up

“The Accountant” Warner Bros. 2 hours, 8 minutes   The condition of autism has gone through a lot…

The Bookworm Sez: The stories behind the bumps in the night

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The Bookworm Sez: The stories behind the bumps in the night

Everything seems a little eerier lately, doesn’t it? Maybe that’s because the days are shorter and nights throw…

An Upper Russian Lake rainbow trout. (Photo by Dave Atcheson)

Life

Tight Lines: Return to Upper Russian Lake

It had been at least ten years since my last visit to the U.S. Forest Service’s cabin on…

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Business briefs

■ The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce meets today at noon at Froso’s Restaurant in Soldotna. A presentation from…

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Not your momma’s politics

OK, people, just three more weeks, give or take a day or two, and this will all be…

Life

From the Recycling Bin

— More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year. That is the…

Life

Community News and Notes

Smith, Morris welcome son Sawyer Douglas Morris was born at home in water on Oct. 3, 2016 at…

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Voices of Faith: Vote for Love

In this mudslinging, name calling election season, it is not hard to see something is missing from the…

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Church News

Explore family ties at Family Discovery Day The Soldotna, Alaska Stake Family History Center will host a Family…

A male ruffed grouse shows its black "ruff" while displaying on a drumming log in central Wisconsin. Ruffed grouse were introduced to the Kenai Peninsula in 1995-97.  (Photo by  J. Bronsdon)

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Refuge Notebook: Ruffed grouse on the Kenai Peninsula

I don’t hunt game birds much anymore, partly because I don’t have a decent bird dog and partly…

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An Outdoor View: Success in fishing

Tell people you went fishing, and their usual response will be, “How’d ja do?” What they really want…

This undated photo shows a bi-fold coldframe in New Paltz, N.Y. Seedlings can keep warm and cozy even in cold weather when the bi-fold cover of this coldframe is closed to capture and hold the sun's warmth. (Lee Reich via AP)

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Using a coldframe is like moving your garden south

In one weekend, you could effectively move your garden — or at least part of it — a…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Terri Zopf-Shoessler, in the role of playwright Olivia Davis-Bascombe, expounds her idea for a murder mystery to skeptical cast members (left to right) Daniel Rozak, Terri Burdick, Ian McEwen, and Jamie Nelson during a dress rehearsal of Mike Druce's dinner theater production "The Show Can't Go On (But it must)" on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at the Kenai Senior Center.

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Kenai Performers’ murder mystery takes a new twist

Hilarity, murder and gentle mocking of the dinner theater genre itself will ensue in the Kenai Performers’ next…

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Poet’s Corner: The Darkness Fades

The Darkness Fades By Randy Wolfe, Kenai As I sit here in the dark, awaiting I don’t know…

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Reeling it in: Crime film doesn’t live up to expectations

“Triple 9” Open Road Films 1 hour, 55 minutes You know what I get tired of hearing? How…

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What’s Happening

Best Bets ■ The Kenai Performers and the Kenai Senior Connection present a murder mystery dinner theater, “The…

The Bookworm Sez: 'Without Mercy' will get your heart pounding

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The Bookworm Sez: ‘Without Mercy’ will get your heart pounding

You ran into someone from your past the other day. He didn’t recognize you, but you remembered him:…

Winter squash bizarrely colorful, deliciously earthy and sweet

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Winter squash bizarrely colorful, deliciously earthy and sweet

Although technically a fruit (they have seeds and grow on a vine), thick, hard-skinned winter squash are members…