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The morning sun on the last day of 2014 shows the sheen of water and ice on Headquarters Lake, a time of year in which the Kenai Peninsula would normally be blanketed in snow. (Kenai National Wildlife Refuge photo)

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Refuge Notebook: Missing the missing snow

Editor’s note: Due to a technical issue, the Refuge Notebook was not published in Friday’s Clarion. Short days…

Kenai Peninsula 4-Hers help with the wood bison roundup at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage.

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Learning for Life: Kenai Peninsula 4-H lends helping hand at wood bison roundup

Recently the Kenai Peninsula 4-H District was fortunate to receive an invitation to participate in the Alaska Wildlife…

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Community News and Notes

Ashley Epperheimer of Kenai and Megan Neill of Soldotna have been included on the dean’s list at Harding…

Sports

Brown Bears lose 9th straight

Trying desperately just to earn points, the Kenai River Brown Bears found trouble Friday night in the form…

Sports

Pigskin Pick’em: PLAYOFFS???

For all the parity Darth Goodell and NFL likes to claim, we are exactly where we thought we…

Sports

Trust is hard to come by for wild-card teams

The main question for the NFL’s weekend of wild-card games is who will advance, of course. The next…

Sports

Brown Bears lose in shootout

After tying the game in the third period, the Kenai River Brown Bears lost a North American Hockey…

News

Clarion to no longer carry Parade

Beginning with Sunday’s edition, the Peninsula Clarion will no longer be able to offer Parade magazine. Parade was…

By IAN FOLEY/Peninsula Clarion The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank advertises Pick.Click.Give on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 in Soldotna.

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Pick.Click.Give. provides essential funding for local non-profits

From Jan. 1 through March 31, Alaskans filing for a Permanent Fund dividend will have more opportunity to…

Life

People have value because they are loved

With the 2014 Christmas season is behind us, our family has begun the task of making room for…

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Church news

Bible study group starting The Midnight Son Seventh Day Adventist Church is starting a Weekly Women’s Bible Study…

Opinion

Voices of the Peninsula: Solving fishery issues requires honest dialogue

The iconic Alaska king salmon are returning in lesser number, younger and consequently smaller, and with a skewed…

Opinion

What others say: Will capital flight continue?

T’was the day after Christmas, and all through the house, everyone was stirring — even the mouse. Wrapping…

Life

Les Palmer: The legendary Beaver

After a 60-year hiatus from building model airplanes, I’m doing it again. Please bear with me while I…

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 28 - In this Dec. 18, 2012 photo, dogs run in the snow on Hyalite Canyon south of Bozeman, Mont. "If it is below zero, you might want to really think about being outside with your dog," said Dr. Spencer Anderson of Baxter Creek Veterinary Clinic in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Ben Pierce)

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When temperature dips, dogs need special care

BOZEMAN, Mont. — On a recent cross-country ski trip in the Bridger Mountains, I noticed my dog was…

In this Dec. 21, 2014 photo, a monarch butterfly perches on a branch in the Piedra Herrada sanctuary near Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More butterflies appear to have made the long flight from the U.S. and Canada to their winter nesting ground in western Mexico, raising hopes after their number dropped to a record low last year. The insects are being hurt by various factors: in Mexico, the encroachment of logging into their habitat; and in the United States, the decline of milkweed, the butterflies' main source of food that has been crowded out by pesticide-resistant crops. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

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More Monarchs return to Mexico, but now face cold

PIEDRA HERRADA, Mexico — More Monarch butterflies appear to have made the long flight from the U.S. and…

Letters to the Editor

More than 8 tons of electronics recycled

Thank you to the 125 households, 6 business and government agencies, and 4 non-profits that brought in 16,960…

Sports

Brown Bears drop game to Ice Miners

The Kenai River Brown Bears junior hockey team lost 5-2 to the Keystone Ice Miners Tuesday at the…

News

Minimum wage raise could affect school bus drivers down the road

With Alaska’s minimum wage set to increase by $1 per hour Feb. 24, an 1989 state statute may…

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion  In this Jan. 2, 2014  Maura Johnson, 19, reads the fantasy book "Shadows" by Robin McKinley at the newly revamped public library in Soldotna, Alaska.

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Soldotna library expansion creates engaging space

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series looking at some of the people and events in…