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Tight Lines: Peninsula lakes offer early season action

I’m slow to emerge from my cocoon. Especially after the previous day, portaging and paddling through a wind-driven…

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Muskox murder trial pushed back

The trial for the Cooper Landing man charged with murder has been pushed back at least two months…

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Agrium now included in refinery tax credit bill pending in Juneau

JUNEAU – A bill extending state tax credits to oil refineries in the state has been expanded to…

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Business News

■ The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce meets at noon on Tuesday at Frosos Restaurant. A spotlight on businesses…

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What’s Happening

Events and Exhibits ■ The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District High School and Middle School Student Group Show…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  Clarissa Frey's plaster cast "Float" hangs on one wall in the Gary L. Freeburg art gallery Wednesday April 16, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska. A student art show will be on display through May 2, in the gallery.

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Talent on display at student art exhibition

A watercolor Harry Potter snatches a golden snitch from the sky on one end of the gallery, while…

This image released by Summit Entertainment shows Kevin Costner, left, and Jennifer Garner in a scene from "Draft Day." (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Dale Robinette)

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Reeling it in: ‘Draft Day’ won’t be a top pick

“Draft Day” 1 hour, 49 minutes Summit Entertainment     What if they made a movie all about…

Letters to the Editor

Participants make job fair a success

To all who came to the 2014 Peninsula Job Fair, we say, thank you — you are the…

Letters to the Editor

Fresh flowers brighten day for seniors

Soldotna Senior Center would like to thank Fred Meyer One Stop Shop & Floral Department for the wonderful…

Sports

Choose Your Weapon 10K on Saturday

Choose Your Weapon 10K on Saturday Tsalteshi Trails will hold a 10-kilometer Choose Your Weapon race at 11…

Courtesy photo Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association  The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association bought the Port Graham hatchery Monday, shown in this 2013 photo, and has plans to incubate 84 million pink salmon eggs in 2014 at the facility.

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Cook Inlet Aquaculture buys defunct Port Graham Hatchery

Pink salmon fishing in the Lower Cook Inlet could soon be revitalized as the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association…

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Nikiski Recreation Center paid for the Nikiski community mural's materials that were used on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, at the Nikiski Recreation Center. Nikiski community mural were funded by

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Painting the town

It took a small army to complete the 16-by-28 foot community mural. Nearly 100 eager Nikiski community members…

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich speaks at a joint Soldotna and Kenai Chamber Luncheon Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Begich visited the Kenai Peninsula Tuesday to give a congressional update and answered questions about tax reform, oil production in the Arctic and health care.

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Begich discusses economic future

Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Begich said he remembers driving through the Kenai Peninsula five years ago, shortly after…

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House panel advances governor’s pension plan

JUNEAU — The House Finance Committee advanced Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan for addressing the state’s pension obligation Tuesday,…

Go green with plant-based food for Earth Day

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Go green with plant-based food for Earth Day

Vegetarian eating is an effective and positive way to help animals, go green and adapt a healthier lifestyle.…

Letters to the Editor

Community comes together for students

To our wonderful and generous parents, staff, and community! On April 5, Sterling Elementary Mrs. McKinley’s 5th Grade…

Opinion

Bob Franken: All in the families

Those of us who rely on political drama, real or contrived, to justify our professional existence are drooling…

Opinion

What others say: Exposing the CIA’s ‘dark side’

More than a year after it approved a report critical of the CIA’s interrogation and detention policies, the…

Life

Pioneer Potluck: About Easter on the farm

NORTHERN COLORADO 1940 TO 1955 EASTER was a big holiday at our house. School was closed for Good…

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School board approves budget, leans heavily on savings

With very little fanfare the Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education passed a more than $161,206,000 budget operating…