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School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in…

Sports

Brown Bears earn 3 points in weekend split

The Kenai River Brown Bears picked up three points in a Friday and Saturday split against the host…

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Linx Robertia was apprehensive taking a picture with Jenna Hansen's reindeer, Scene of the Crash and Comet, at Christmas Comes to Kenai November 28, 2014, in at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center in Kenai, Alaska. Her parents, Joseph Robertia and Colleen Robertia, said Linx Robertia recognized the animals right away, because they were in her alaphabet book. When Linx Robertia was standing in line to see Santa Claus she kept saying "caribou, caribou," Joseph Robertia said.

News

Kenai welcomes Christmas

Christmas came to Kenai before the snow did this year. As Santa rolled into the parking lot of…

News

Injured musher won’t race in the Iditarod this year

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Iditarod musher injured by a sport utility vehicle that crashed into her team…

News

Governor-elect Walker sees tough days ahead

JUNEAU, Alaska — Bill Walker is coming into the governor’s office faced with high expectations for a renewed…

Opinion

Cal Thomas: This Thanksgiving, have an attitude of gratitude

If Thomas Jefferson could be faulted for one thing in composing the Declaration of Independence, it might be…

Opinion

Bob Franken: All sides hate the media

Everyone is a media critic. President Barack Obama, unsuccessfully pleading for a peaceful reaction to the grand jury…

Opinion

All pratices should be best practices

New oil and gas exploration in the Cook Inlet basin, coupled with the prospect of the Alaska LNG…

Opinion

GOP govs starting to strut their stuff for 2016

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A half-dozen potential Republican presidential contenders spent last week peacocking across the sprawling grounds…

News

Troopers release more details on Thanksgiving Day plane crash

A Soldotna man and a juvenile from Kenai were identified by Alaska State Troopers as the two people…

Sports

Brown Bears defeat Wild in shootout

After getting swept on their home ice by the Wenatchee (Washington) Wild last weekend, the Bears defeated the…

Sayers, Shedd marry

Life

Sayers, Shedd marry

Katie Sayers and Kyle Shedd were married at the Senior Center in Kenai on June 21, 2014, with…

High rollers

Life

High rollers

The Central Peninsula Special Olympics bowling team, led by coaches Tina Strayhorn and Lois Azzara, won the state…

Life

News and Notes

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Jerry V. Horn Memorial Post #10046 and its Ladies Auxiliary are pleased to…

Life

Here’s the thing: Be a people person for the holidays

The best part about holidays are gatherings with family and friends. I believe that statement to be true,…

Fran Kilfoyle is providing a sweet-faced doll with a beautiful wardrobe of clothes, hats, coats and shoes for the annual Senior Connection Inc. Doll Raffle. Tickets cost $1.00 each or a book of six tickets for $5.00. Tickets are now available and the drawing will take place during the the" Breakfast with Santa" on December 22.

Life

Kenai Senior Center events

What’s happening at the Kenai Senior Center for the month of December 2014 call for 283-8211 for additional…

Letters to the Editor

Disagreement is between Materialism, Theism

Jubilee Johnston’s letter-to-the-editor (Clarion, Nov. 25) does well to note that “… students are not being taught ……

Letters to the Editor

I lived the ‘Rise of America’

I was born on Jan. 29, 1932, the day before F.D.R. was inaugurated to his first term as…

Dalton Goodnight serves up mashed potatoes at Charlie's Pizza in Nikiski for free meals the restaurant delivers to residents on Thanksgiving day Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, in Nikiski Alaska. Owner Steve Chamberlain said Felix Martinez, owner of M & M Supermarket in Nikiski, donates a dozen turkeys every year for the holiday.

News

Early Thanksgiving dinner brings longtime friends, generations of memories to senior center

The Kenai Senior Center hosted an early Thanksgiving potluck “dinner” Thursday morning. Locals who attended have been celebrating…

Photo courtesy Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Department The highlighted property at the corner of Ciechanski Road and Virginia Drive is a gravel pit owned by Sean Cude. Property owners in the Diamond Willow-Fairfield subdivision have petitioned the borough for a local option zoning district that would change the rural district to single-residential that requires all parcels to be subdivided into within 50 percent of the mathmatical mean of each pacel in the district.

News

Pit burdens neighborhood

After extensive discussion, the Kenai Peninsula Borough assembly postponed an ordinance that delayed the rezoning of a Kalifornsky…