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Here’s the Thing: Savoring the soup

My goal was to write something entertaining for you, but instead I’m stuck on Google looking for Tom…

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Learning for Life: Take the 30 Days, 30 Ways Challenge

September is National Preparedness Month. Make preparedness fun for the entire family by taking the “30 Days, 30…

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An Outdoor View: The money motive

Bill Santos, who lives in Taunton, Mass., called me earlier this week, and the talk soon turned to…

Letters to the Editor

Support funding for Alzheimer’s research

In 2015, there are more than five million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, including 6,400 in Alaska. In…

Letters to the Editor

More than lip service needed from KRSA

The old adage is “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Kenai River Sportsfishing…

Letters to the Editor

Big thanks for ‘oldtimers’ lunch

Peggy Arness and I would like to thank all of the “oldtimers,” who, for the past 20 years…

Letters to the Editor

Habitat says thank you!

Recently the local Habitat for Humanity held its annual golf tournament fundraiser which was successful thanks to many…

Sports

CIA soccer clashes with Delta

Staff report Peninsula Clarion The Cook Inlet Academy coed soccer team picked up a 2-2 tie against Delta…

News

ConocoPhillips to cut 10 percent of workforce

The impact of plummeting oil prices is finally hitting Alaska’s oilpatch. ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. said Tuesday it will…

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF AUG. 29-30, 2015. In this August 8, 2015 photo, Christine Simko walks along a trail on the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve near McCarthy, Alaska. Depending on who you ask, the 9-mile round trip from Kennecott Mill Town to Bonanza Mine is either "an easy one" or "unrelenting." Similar sentiments could be applied to the nearby Jumbo Mine trip, which is one mile longer and rises 3,400 feet. (Robin Wood/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

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Biking and hiking Kennecott’s abandoned mine

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Tires flung mud in our eyes and rain soaked every layer of clothing. The descent…

Ranger Jake dissects a salmon at one of his amazing summer camps for local kids at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

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Refuge Notebook: The Kenai Crusader – Tales of a Kenai refuge intern

People are screaming and sirens are wailing throughout the city. Children are lost, stumbling lone through the streets.…

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Voices of Faith: Where can I go from your presence?

With school underway, isn’t it time for a pop quiz? I can almost hear the collective “sigh” for…

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Church News

Former pastor visits Kenai United Methodist Church The congregation of the Kenai United Methodist Church will welcome former…

Letters to the Editor

Alaskans should own pipeline

I recently read that Governor Walker would like a gas line buyout for Alaska — one that would…

Opinion

Advertising or free speech?

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities this week sent out a press release reminding Alaskans of…

Sports

Bird Homestead golf slowly winding down

Golf season is coming to an end, so be sure you get in your last few rounds of…

News

Ninilchik gas line rupture repaired

The ENSTAR Natural Gas service line that was damaged in Ninilchik Tuesday has been repaired. According to an…

President Barack Obama looks at salmon being smoked while meeting with local fishermen and families on Kanakanak Beach, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Dillingham, Alaska. Obama is on a historic three-day trip to Alaska aimed at showing solidarity with a state often overlooked by Washington, while using its glorious but changing landscape as an urgent call to action on climate change. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Obama visit reaches into Arctic

KOTZEBUE — President Barack Obama crossed the Arctic Circle on Wednesday in a first by a sitting U.S.…

Life

Fishing report: Fall anglers have sights on silvers, rainbows, steelhead

While anglers should be cautious with rising water on the Kenai River from the release of the Snow…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  In this October 19, 2014 file photo an angler fishes on the Kenai River near its outlet from Skilak Lake. Rainbow trout fishing has been hot in this area and river-wide for weeks.

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For a different challenge, try chasing Kenai River rainbows

For weeks, rainbow trout fishing on the Kenai River has been hot. Clear, low water filled with the…