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■ The Triumvirate Theatre on the Kenai Spur Highway just north of Kenai presents “A Charlie Brown Christmas”…

Life

Pioneer Potluck: About Christmas Eve on the Farm

At the Mcclure Home Northern Colorado 1940s and 1950s   The tree was in the corner of the…

Life

A merry, sharing Christmas to all

During Christmastime, two years ago, I introduced you to Caroline Kennedy’s “over the moon” Cranberry-Coconut Balls Dipped in…

Opinion

Rich Lowry: Christmas at Bastogne

“What’s merry about all this, you ask?” Thus began a Christmas Eve message from Gen. Anthony McAuliffe to…

Letters to the Editor

Unocal retirees enjoy Christmas lights

The Alaska Unocal Retirees’ Association has been judging the Kenai Christmas lights for the past several years, and…

Opinion

Bob Franken: ‘Tis the beltway around Christmas

‘Tis the time around Christmas and throughout the White House, No one is stirring, not the Prez, kids…

Opinion

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…

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Tara Chipman said it takes her family about three hours to complete their annual Christmas decorations, shown here on  Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, on Rogers Road in Kenai, Alaska. Halloween and Christmas are the two holidays Chipman "decks out" the house for, she said. The interior of the home receives attention as well, she said.

News

Photo: Night lights

By IAN FOLEY/ Peninsula Clarion Betsy Laws and her daughter Kiowa Richardson look through pictures of their old cabin on December 22, 2014 in Soldotna.

News

Mother, daughter find success after adversity

Soldotna residents Kiowa Richardson and her mother, Betsy Laws, are no strangers to adversity. Despite years of hardship…

Members of the Briat Elohim congregation gather to celebrate Hanukkah. (Submitted photo)

News

Local congregation celebrates Hanukkah

This Hanukkah, members of the Briat Elohim Reform Jewish congregation are meeting to celebrate the holiday with friends…

News

Walker continues to fill cabinet

JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Bill Walker is continuing to fill out his Cabinet, naming Heidi Drygas to be…

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Kristen Lee, owner of Upstream Family Medicine, gives four-week-old Baylor Sansotta a well child check-up Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska. His mother Erin Sansotta watches in the corner as her son whines about how cold the otoscope is that Lee uses to check his ears. said care provider and owner Kristen Lee, who runs the practice with Tara Lathrup

Life

Soldotna medical practice continues to grow

Upstream Family Medicine has been steadily expanding in the Soldotna community for three years. The small team practice…

News

Business news

■ The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce meets at 11:30 a.m. today at Froso’s Restaurant in Soldotna for a…

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Cuba libré!

Is it possible to hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts about the president’s decision to partially end the half-century…

Opinion

What others say: University will need strong leader, support from state

The announcement earlier this month that University of Alaska President Pat Gamble will retire in June comes at…

Soldotna designated Purple Heart City

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Soldotna designated Purple Heart City

At the December 10th Soldotna City Council meeting members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH)…

Redoubt El Grocery Grab yields 1,114 lbs. plus $1,000 for Food Bank holiday boxes

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Redoubt El Grocery Grab yields 1,114 lbs. plus $1,000 for Food Bank holiday boxes

Several years ago Sharon Hale at Redoubt Elementary School started a holiday food collection called the “Great Redoubt…

Toys for Tots makes record breaking buy

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Toys for Tots makes record breaking buy

Sunday afternoon December 14th, just ten days before Santa’s departure from the North Pole some U.S. Marines and…

News

Unwrap Soldotna yields $1,000 shopping spree for local family

Shopping locally paid huge Holiday dividend for the Evans family of Soldotna who collected $1,000 in Chamber Bucks…

Sports

Soldotna’s McCormick to run at UAA

Soldotna senior Dani McCormick has signed a national letter of intent with the University of Alaska Anchorage women’s…