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Here’s the thing: A new appreciation for the season

Imagine you’re part of Team Christmas, but while everyone is busy being merry, you’re stuck on the bench.…

Arts & Entertainment

What’s Happening

Events and Exhibitions ■ The Lucretia Carter Memorial “Small Fry Original” display will be at the Soldotna Public…

Arts & Entertainment

I forgive you; 3 small, strong words

“I forgive you.” Are there any three more powerful words? Can “I love you” – also used for…

Arts & Entertainment

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Lucasfilm 2 hours, 16 minutes A new “Star Wars” movie opened this weekend.…

Letters to the Editor

Inletkeeper launchers clean boating program

Since 2010, Cook Inletkeeper and partners have been educating boaters and fishermen in the Susitna Valley on the…

Letters to the Editor

FNBA contributes to senior center endowment

Soldotna Senior Center would like to thank First National Bank Alaska for their very generous contribution to the…

Letters to the Editor

Families appreciate Christmas kindness

On behalf of the 19 recipient families of our Soldotna Elementary Christmas Kindness program, I would like to…

Sports

Two picks from the Sultan of Sides

Editor’s note: The Clarion’s Sultan of Sides, Nolan Rose, is making his list of picks for Sunday’s games…

Photo courtesy/Architect of the CapitolThis year's Capitol Christmas Tree in Washington D.C. is a Lutz spruce from Primrose on the Kenai Peninsula.

Life

Refuge Notebook: How the Capitol Christmas Tree was named

On this Christmas Eve, most of us have an ornamented tree of one sort or another in our…

Life

An Outdoor View: Wild Fishing

Author’s note: This column previously appeared in the Clarion on Aug. 1, 2003. I’ve edited it slightly for…

FILE - In this Saturday, March 18, 2006, file photo, Tim Osmar of Ninilchik, Alaska, left, who drove his dog team in front of  Rachael Scdoris, right, as her visual interpreter during the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race, stands with Scdoris at the finish in Nome, Alaska. Scdoris completed the race, placing 57th among 72 finishing teams, and the 10-year anniversary of her becoming the first legally blind musher to finish the Iditarod is just three months away. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Life

Blind musher reflects on her history-making Iditarod career

ALFALFA, Ore. — The ranch is a flurry of activity, and Rachael Scdoris is at the center of…

News

Mayor calls for independent probe in Fairbanks 4 case

ANCHORAGE — The mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, said Wednesday he is seeking an independent investigation of how police…

Life

Voices of Faith: ‘The light has come’

Throughout the ages and the world’s vast geography the presence of light has regulated how people live and…

Life

Church news

— North Star United Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 of the Kenai Spur Highway in Nikiski, has Christmas Eve…

Letters to the Editor

Alaskans come together for ‘People’s Tree’

Alaskans came together in a year-long effort to provide the first tree from Alaska to stand tall as…

Opinion

What others say: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Editor’s note: For several years on Christmas Eve, the Peninsula Clarion has reprinted this famous editorial written by…

Arts & Entertainment

Presence of Christmas

The Presence of Christmas Dave Thompson Giving to others just what they might need Forgiving our brethren for…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  In this October 9, 2014 file photo workers take a core sample of the earth near Autumn Road, in Nikiski where the Alaska LNG project has been buying land and planning to build an LNG facility at the terminus of a pipeline in a project that, if built, would be the largest of its kind in the world.

News

A critical year lies ahead for Alaska LNG Project agreements

The coming year is a critical one for the Alaska LNG Project. Continued progress on Alaska LNG is…

Sports

Nikiski girls, Kenai boys notch basketball victories

The Nikiski girls and Kenai Central boys basketball teams won nonconference games Tuesday in Nikiski. The Bulldogs used…

News

North Slope companies to keep up spending

What lies ahead for Alaska’s oil and gas industry in 2016? The overwhelming unknown is the price of…