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Op-ed: Hillary Clinton: Slip slidin’ away

“Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip slidin’ away.”…

Opinion

Op-ed: For crisis’ sake

In the immortal words of Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Of…

Opinion

Keep the sliding in the ice rink

Have you ever seen so many people so happy to see some snow? Indeed, after a couple of…

Life

Students share ideas for solving hunger

Editor’s note: All elementary school students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District were invited by the Kenai…

Life

Learning for Life: Brown bag lunches with style

According to Business News Daily, the average American spends $2,000 on eating lunch out each year. Our wallets…

Life

Hard to love school these days

Several days ago, our paper ran a news story in which Georgia’s 2016 Teacher of the Year told…

Sports

Friday hoops roundup: Nikiski boys win to set up title clash

The Nikiski boys put themselves in contention for the Nikiski Tip-Off Tournament championship with a 68-43 victory Friday…

Sports

Friday: Valley hockey squads stay perfect against Peninsula

PALMER — The Stars surged in the third, but Soldotna was stopped short of becoming the first Peninsula…

Letters to the Editor

SB 120 a polarizing distraction

For his latest trick, Senator Peter Micciche pre-filed SB 120, a measure guaranteed to turn that frown upside…

Letters to the Editor

Time to put Alaska first

Maybe living in Soldotna gives me a poorer understanding of the will of the people and its role…

Letters to the Editor

Christmas Drive helps 50 families

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the individuals, families, organizations, and businesses that helped…

Sports

Prep hockey: Kenai, SoHi, Homer go 0-3 against Valley teams

WASILLA — In early December, during a three-day trip through the Kenai Peninsula, Valley hockey teams finished a…

Sports

Unlike his Seahawks, Sultan can’t escape playoff disaster

The playoffs began with a whimper, much like the regular season ended, for the Sultan of Sides. We…

News

Focus shifts to reducing costs, risks for Alaska LNG Project

“Cost is everything.” No longer a concept, nearly everything done on the Alaska LNG Project from here forward…

News

School district, associations still stuck on health care

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, support staff and teacher associations met again on Wednesday to discuss the…

In this Feb. 10, 2014 file photo Roland Maw walks into a conference room during an Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting. Maw has been charged with falsifying his residency. (Clarion file photo)

News

Maw charged with falsifying residency

Roland Maw, a Kenai Peninsula commercial fishing advocate and the former executive director of the United Cook Inlet…

Life

Voices of Faith: Thriving in life

This is my first newspaper article of the year. If this were published on the internet, it would…

Life

Church News

Nikiski Aglow begins new study Nikiski Aglow will begin a new study by Graham Cooke called “Life Changers”…

This May 25, 2013 photo shows French breakfast radishes at the Bayview Farmer's Market in Langley, Wash., that are typical of many edibles that are eaten raw. They need to be washed before serving to remove dirt and bacteria as well as any residual pesticides. (Dean Fosdick via AP)

Life

Making sure food from your garden is safe to eat

Gardening delivers produce that is tastier, cheaper and safer than store-bought, right? Well, not necessarily safer. “There’s always…

The low light pollution on the Kenai Peninsula allows for great photos of our nightscape. (Photo by Rebecca Uta)

Life

Refuge Notebook: The Dark Side – photographing our nightscape

I recently received a gift for gracefully aging of a Canon D3300. Being a photography hobbyist and a…