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Rare disease sufferer to hold awareness event

If you’ve never heard of stiff person syndrome, you’re far from alone. The neurological disorder — characterized by…

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Project SEARCH interns work behind the scenes at hospital

Six Kenai Peninsula Borough School District students and graduates who spent part of this year working at Central…

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Three seek assembly appointment to replace Homdahl

The eastern Kenai Peninsula will have a new representative on the nine-member Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly after assembly…

Marlene Lewis (left) sketches model Robert Dederick during a charcoal figuring-drawing class on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska. The class is the latest in a series of community art classes lead by artist and Kenai librarian James Adcox.

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HEA Director’s election open for candidates

Editor’s note: this story has been updated to include the fact that HEA Board of Directors President Dick…

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Kenai to examine fund balance

Kenai City Council members and administrators will discuss plans to set upper and lower limits for the city’s…

Photographer observes Bristol Bay

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Photographer observes Bristol Bay

During photographer Carl Johnson’s trips to document subsistence life in the river-laced Bristol Bay region west of Cook…

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Cook Inlet Energy fined for safety valve violations

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — the state regulatory oversight group for the hydrocarbon industry —…

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Kenai rearranges funding to prepare for new budget

Kenai got a head start on its upcoming budget by rearranging its funds via an ordinance that moves…

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Hilcorp gas pipeline leaking into Cook Inlet

A damaged underwater pipeline is leaking between 210,000 and 310,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day into…

Retired paramedic Teresa Gray presents images from her aid work in refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos to Kenai Central High School juniors and seniors on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Bringing the world home

Like many, retired paramedic and Anchorage resident Teresa Gray had experienced the Syrian refugee crisis through casual news…

Eroding at roughly 3 feet per year, the Kenai River bluffs encroach on an outbuilding of Paul Karaffa’s property on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in Old Town Kenai, Alaska. About half of Karaffa’s bluff-top land, on which he’s lived since 1944, has eroded away. The eroded portion is among 22 mostly underwater properties that the city of Kenai is seeking to buy to carry out a bluff-erosion prevention project, tentatively scheduled to start construction in 2019. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai seeks land for bluff erosion project

Kenai is seeking land while the Army Corps of Engineers has set a new timeline and reached a…

This graph uses calculations based on a Feb. 6 Kenai Peninsula Borough School District budget presentation to show where the school district has made its $8.55 million in budget cuts since fiscal 2015. (Graphic by Vincent Nusunginya/Peninsula Clarion)

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School budget cuts could affect custodians, others

A rough sketch of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s budget for the coming year includes $2.48 million…

Club and concert series to be hosted at Cannery Lodge

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Club and concert series to be hosted at Cannery Lodge

By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion A building on south shore of the Kenai River mouth — which over…

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School district plans changes to English language learners program

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct the titles of Board of Education Vice-President Penny Vadla…

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Kenai bowling alley sold to Dean You

Bowling balls may soon be rumbling again down the lanes of Kenai’s bowling alley, bought this week by…

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Airport rule may require federal permitting of private construction in Kenai

A Federal Aviation Administration rule for construction on airports may apply to Kenai businesses beyond the physical bounds…

Twenty three days into his job as Kenai City Manager, Paul Ostrander speaks about Kenai issues to a Kenai Chamber of Commerce audience during a talk on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion).

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Ostrander speaks about Kenai issues

After 23 days as Kenai City Manager, Paul Ostrander spoke about his view of Kenai’s finances, policies, and…

Jeff Warton samples three flavors of bagel spread at the grand opening of the Kenai location of Everything Bagels on Tuesday, Jan. 31,2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The grand opening comes 13 days after the Kenai shop had its soft opening on Jan. 18, seven months after Everything Bagels opened its first location in Soldotna on July 15, 2016, and on the one-year anniversary of co-owners Matt and Pamela Parker (with Brooke and John Campbell) making their first batch of bagels in their home kitchen, Pamela Parker said. "We came from Florida, where all the New Yorkers go to retire, so there's tons of delicious bagels there," she said. "We wanted to bring that up here." (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Time to make the bagels

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Kenaitze elders demonstrate traditional moose head use

During Sharon Isaak’s childhood in Soldotna, butchering and processing moose meat was a regular family activity. Though the…