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Ashlyn O’Hara / Peninsula Clarion From left: Kenai City Council candidates Alex Douthit, Deborah Sounart and Victoria Askin attend an election forum Wednesday at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center.

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Council candidates discuss Kenai’s future at forum

Three of the five candidates vying for seats on the council participated in the event.

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Kasilof man arrested in connection to alleged death threats

Tarbell began in August making threats to individuals in Vermont and others states, according to an FBI affidavit.

A protester stands outside the George A. Navarre Borough Admin building in Soldotna on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Parents divided on masks

Some parents said they will keep their kids home if masks are required; others say they’ll keep their…

Nathan Erfurth speaks before the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education on Monday, July 12, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board approves employee contracts, pay raises for school nurses

88% of KPEA’s voting members approved their contract and 99% of KPESA’s voting members approved their contract.

Brie Drummond speaks in support of mask mandates on Monday, Sept. 13, for the Kenai Peninsula School Board meeting at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. During a work session before the meeting, the district presented revisions to its COVID-19 mitigation protocols. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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School district revises COVID-19 mitigation plans

The revisions come as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Alaska and on the Kenai Peninsula.

Micah Shields (courtesy photo)

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Meet Soldotna City Council candidate Micah Shields

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Soldotna City Council member Jordan Chilson is running for reelection to his seat on the council. (Courtesy photo)

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Meet Soldotna City Council candidate Jordan Chilson

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Dan Nelson stands in the Peninsula Clarion building on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Meet Soldotna City Council candidate Dan Nelson

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Soldotna City Council member Linda Farnsworth-Hutchings is running unopposed for a seat on the Soldotna City Council. (courtesy photo)

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Meet Soldotna City Council candidate Linda Farnsworth-Hutchings

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Linda Cusack (left) and Teri Birchfield (right) test a Dominion voting machine ahead of the Oct. 5 municipal election on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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New voting machines get test spin

Testing voting equipment has always been open to the public, but was made more accessible due to sweeping…

Ray Southwell testifies before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in support of legislation opposing government-mandated vaccines on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021 at the George A. Navarre Admin Building in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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COVID divisions shape heated testimony

After raucous meeting, assembly tables resolution on ‘vaccine segregation’.

An Alaska State Trooper reaches for a grenade on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021 near Soldotna, Alaska. The grenade was found by 13-year-old Edith Watts on the family property in Ridgeway. Troopers and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company responded to the scene. (Photo by Edith Watts)

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13-year-old finds grenade on Ridgeway property

Alaskas State Troopers and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company responded to the scene.

This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. (CDC)

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6 new deaths, 841 cases reported statewide

The peninsula continues to lag behind most other regions in percentage of fully vaccinated.

Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink answers questions from members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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State, hospital officials brief assembly on COVID

“The hospital has been over capacity for basically the month of August,” an official said.

A sign in front of Kenai Middle School is seen on Sept. 2, 2021, in Kenai, Alaska. The school was one of more than a dozen Kenai Peninsula Borough School District schools operating with universal indoor masking due to rising COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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More schools go to universal indoor masking

More than 200 students have tested positive for COVID-19 since Aug. 23.

Council Member Dave Carey attends a meeting of the Soldotna City Council on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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City council to consider 9/11 memorial resolution

The resolution would indicate the council’s “support for remembrance” of the terror attacks.

A registered nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at the pop-up clinic on the Spit on May 27, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Borough resolution opposes ‘COVID-19 vaccine segregation’

The legislation does not nullify COVID mandates instituted by the borough’s incorporated communities.

A worker paints a steeple white at the Kenai United Methodist Church on Monday, Sept. 6, 2021 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘Coming into the light of God’

Kenai church debuts blue facade

Leighton Radner stands in the Seward Community Library & Museum on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 in Seward, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Leighton Radner: ‘This has to be fixed’

Election 2021: Seward City Council

Photo courtesy City of Kenai Erosion due to a failing storm water pipe can be seen near Bryson Avenue in Kenai, Alaska.

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Kenai tackles bluff erosion caused by failing storm pipe

The project is located within a drainage easement between two properties at the end of Bryson Avenue.