Steel sweep Brown Bears

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Steel sweep Brown Bears

The visiting Kenai River Brown Bears dropped two games to the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel on Friday and Saturday…

State wrestling sees final Hutchison appearance; Homer boys capture state title

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State wrestling sees final Hutchison appearance; Homer boys capture state title

More than two decades after the first Hutchison stepped onto an Alaska state wrestling mat, the last one…

Soldotna hockey shuts out Juneau

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Soldotna hockey shuts out Juneau

The Soldotna hockey team notched a 3-0 victory over Juneau-Douglas on Thursday in Railbelt Conference play at the…

Unpredictable state wrestling tourney set to kick off

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Unpredictable state wrestling tourney set to kick off

The wars waged by the Homer and Bethel wrestling programs through each of the last three years at…

Kenai River Brown Bears goaltender Gavin Enright denies Fairbanks Ice Dogs forward Parker Brown on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Brown Bears goalie Enright secures Division I commit

Kenai River Brown Bears goalie Gavin Enright sacrificed his senior year of high school to learn what it…

Tangled up in Blue: Up in smoke!

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Tangled up in Blue: Up in smoke!

My wood stove stole my freedom. The independence I cultivated through years of working late nights in return…

Candy Cane Scramble relocated

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Candy Cane Scramble relocated

Despite the week’s snowfall in Kenai and Soldotna, the Candy Cane Scramble prep ski race, originally scheduled for…

Nikiski girls head coach Rustin Hitchcock talks to his team Thursday against Kotzebue at the Craig Jung Kenai River Challenge at Kenai Central High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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Hitchcock wins in Nikiski head coaching debut

The Rustin Hitchcock era officially opened Thursday afternoon at Kenai Central High School.

Kenai hockey loses to Juneau to stay winless in 2018

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Kenai hockey loses to Juneau to stay winless in 2018

Playing a nonconference opponent from Southeast Alaska gave the Kenai Central hockey team a chance to break their…

77 years of conservation in our neighborhood

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77 years of conservation in our neighborhood

By LEAH ESKELIN

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Goff, Aldridge win Freezer Food Series #3

The third race of the Freezer Food Series went to Sean Goff, who won Sunday afternoon at the…

Seward’s Terry excels for Hardin-Simmons

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Seward’s Terry excels for Hardin-Simmons

So far, so good for the transfer of Seward’s Jalen Terry from Humbolt State to Division III Hardin-Simmons…

Homer teammates Josh Bradshaw (left) and Mose Hayes square off in the 152-pound championship Saturday at the Kachemak Conference wrestling tournament at Grace Christian High School in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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Homer wrestling wins 4th straight region crown

There’s a reason why Saturday’s Kachemak Conference wrestling finals looked more like a Homer Mariners practice room than…

NLC: Stars take 3rd, claim 4 individual titles

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NLC: Stars take 3rd, claim 4 individual titles

By JEREMIAH BARTZ

Kenai Central grad Cooper makes biathlon World Cup debut

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Kenai Central grad Cooper makes biathlon World Cup debut

Travis Cooper, a 2015 graduate of Kenai Central High School, made his International Biathlon Union World Cup debut…

Soldotna hockey tops Homer, but Big Lake Rec Center is the winner

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Soldotna hockey tops Homer, but Big Lake Rec Center is the winner

When it came to Big Lake Lions Community Rec Center, the Soldotna hockey program was in a giving…

Magicians nip Bears on Friday, Saturday

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Magicians nip Bears on Friday, Saturday

The visiting Kenai River Brown Bears lost a pair of 4-3 games to the Minnesota Magicians on Friday…

Brown Bears topple Magicians

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Brown Bears topple Magicians

The Kenai River Brown Bears won their second straight game, going on the road to top the Minnesota…

Nikiski’s Koleman McCaughey (top) wrestles with Kenai’s Tucker Vann in a dual meet Nov. 27, 2018, at Kenai Central High School. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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Wrestling teams unfazed as conference tournament moved after quake

The 7.0 earthquake that momentarily stopped Southcentral Alaska in its tracks last Friday left a different kind of…

Skiers climb a hill near the start of the Kachemak Bay Marathon Ski Tour in March of 2007 near Homer, Alaska, in winter where Homer actually had snow. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Out of the Office: Don’t wait for snow or ice — just get outside

Now would be the time when an enterprising outdoors columnist writes about all the wonderful winter sports to…