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Officials amend disclosures in response to APOC complaint

The Alaska Public Offices Commission will hear three out of more than 200 complaints that in some way…

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Planning ahead

The Soldotna Parks and Recreation Department reviewed and made a number of changes to the Memorial Park administrative…

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ASAP Project makes design chages, requires supplemental statement

While the Alaska LNG Project has taken the spotlight lately, the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline Project, another proposed…

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Fill the Boot is back

After a year hiatus, Central Emergency Services responders have brought back the Fill the Boot campaign to raise…

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Floyd Frost testifies against the proposed closure of sport hunting of brown bears on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge at a public hearing Wednesday night at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. More than 60 people attended the hearing. A final decision by the refuge is expected to be made today.

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Hunters speak out against proposed refuge brown bear closure

Funny River Road resident Jim Harpring said his property at mile 31 is the first place where brown…

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Shell files revised Arctic offshore drilling plan

ANCHORAGE — Royal Dutch Shell PLC has filed a revised Arctic offshore drilling plan with federal regulators but…

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Restoring snowmobile history

CASPER, Wyo. — One of the snowmobiles looks a little like a 1970s space-pod with tracks. A rider…

Scottish kids and their chaperones pose in front of a historical 4-ton steam boiler (once used in a lumber mill) that they moved from the shores of Tustumena Lake to higher ground with levers, pulleys and sweat this past summer.  (Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

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Refuge Notebook: Scottish kids help restore cabins on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

In the summer of 2006 I was fortunate enough to meet Gary Titus and so began the story…

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An Outdoor View: Fast fishing

Author’s note: This week’s column first appeared Nov. 13, 1987, in “The Tides,” a Clarion supplement. By looking…

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Going through the motions won’t do the job

One day in July became increasingly challenging. First, the water pump in the well was producing only a…

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Church news

Mass schedule to change at Our Lady of Perpetual Help As of September 1, the weekend Mass Schedule…

Letters to the Editor

Service areas need public participation

To all central peninsula service area residents: Does the recently passed $50,000 property tax exemption really save you…

Opinion

A fish board meeting on the peninsula is long overdue

A measure going before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, as well as city councils around the peninsula, encourages…

Opinion

A grim stalemate at war’s end in Gaza

TEL AVIV, Israel — The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort…

Sports

Bird Homestead golf report: Fall Classic recap

Getting tired of fishing yet? Try golfing for a change. Bird Homestead golf course is located on Mile…

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School bus rear-ended on K-Beach Road

Central Emergency Services responders transported two people to Central Peninsula Hospital with non-life threatening injuries following a collision…

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Traffic camera installed at Soldotna intersection

Soldotna residents may have noticed a new camera hanging from the traffic light at the intersection of the…

Members and staff of the Alaska Board of Fisheries meet in Soldotna Feb. 16, 1999. The 1999 meeting was the last time the full board met on the central Kenai Peninsula to address upper Cook Inlet fisheries. (Clarion file photo)

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Kenai Peninsula hopes to host Board of Fish meetings

Municipalities across the Kenai Peninsula are slated to consider asking the Alaska Board of Fisheries hold the 2017…

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APOC complaints filed over Kenai River Classic participation, gifts

Complaints have been filed against three state officials for taking gifts for themselves or their families in relation…

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Home rules do not yet apply

 The Soldotna City Council decided to move forward on researching how to become a home-rule city.   City…