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Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Homer Electric Association General Manager Brad Janorschke presents his arguments for HEA's deregulation to members of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Kenai Visitor's Center in Kenai, Alaska.

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HEA Manager presents case for deregulation

Homer Electric Association’s General Manager Brad Janorschke made his case for deregulating the utility cooperative — the sole…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Two of the five large-format books in the Soldotna's Joyce K. Caver Memorial Library's new collection of photo-books by local artists are shown on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in the Soldotna library. The five books presently in the collection - two featuring lithographs by Jim Evenson and three of photography by Joe Kashi - haven't yet been cataloged and shelved. Kashi, director of arts nonprofit ARTSpace, hopes local artists will contribute books to expand the collection by attending an art reproduction training session he's hosting at the Soldotna Library on Saturday.

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ARTSpace project at Soldotna library aims to preserve local art

When a Kenai Peninsula artist finishes a piece, the work may hang for a few months on the…

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Kenai election results official with 24.9 percent voter turnout

The final results of Kenai’s Oct. 4 election confirm the unofficial preliminary results: Brian Gabriel beat Hal Smalley…

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First snow of season leads to traffic accidents

Monday morning brought light snow to some parts of the Kenai Peninsula for the first time this season.…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula Borough School District teacher for the visually-impaired Jordana Engebretson (left) helps blindfolded student Steven Smith type a message on her computer, which has a text-to-speech program that reads back the letters and words Smith types, during RIver City Academy's Blindness Challenge on Thursday, Oct. 13 in Soldotna.

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Students learn about challenges of visual impairment

Of the Kenai Peninsula School District’s approximately 8,900 students, three are blind. Jordana Engebretson, the district’s teacher for…

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School district meetings consider budget options

Staff in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, teachers and members of the public began brainstorming how to…

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HEA answers questions on withdraw from RCA regulation

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct the dates of election events. Homer Electric Association’s 22,892…

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School district to hold budget meetings

At a series of public meetings on Oct. 13, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will begin confronting…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Electrician Richard Cutter crawls through the roof space of Kenai's Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church while installing a new fire supression system on Thursday, Oct. 6 in Kenai.

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Kenai Russian Orthodox Church gets new fire supression system

A system designed to extinguish fires without damaging the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church’s…

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Kenai passes watered down cat ordinance

Kenai municipal code — which previously stated that free-roaming animals in the city can be impounded by animal…

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Redoubt Chamber Orchestra to play varied concert

Audiences at Redoubt Chamber Orchestra’s Evening of Classics concert — 7 p.m Friday at Soldotna’s Christ Lutheran Church…

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Gabriel leads mayoral race; Glendening and Pettey win Kenai council seats

On Tuesday night, Kenai mayoral candidate Brian Gabriel lead opponent Harold “Hal” Smalley by 76 votes, with absentee…

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Kenai council considers city manager candidates

Kenai City Council members have selected five finalists for the position of Kenai City Manager from 28 applicants.…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Ivy Howland hesitates before bidding on the lino-block print "Great Horned Owl" by Kathryn Zerbe at the Kenai Fine Arts Center's annual Harvest Art Auction fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 1 in Old Town Kenai. Howland ended up winning her bid on the black and white owl print for $110.

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Photo: The agony and the ecstasy

Ivy Howland hesitates before bidding on the lino-block print “Great Horned Owl” by Kathryn Zerbe at the Kenai…

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Kenai candidates speak on budget, land, and business

On Oct. 4 Kenai voters will chose two new city council members from the five candidates running in…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Fresh asphalt paving on the taxiways and tie-down area of the Kenai Municipal Airport sits ready for use Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The airport's recently finished taxiway rehabilitation replaced pavement from the 1980s that was buckled from frost heave and sat on a foundation of logs and debris laid during the airport's founding as a World War II-era military airbase. The renovation also improved the lights - the lightpoles surrounding the tie-down lot on the left are shorter and more directional LED lights, while the pavement-embedded marker lights on the right side of the taxiway are less exposed than the older post-mounted lights on the left.

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Kenai airport taxiway renovated

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct a misspelling of Derek Leichliter’s name. The Kenai Municipal Airport’s…

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Kenai mayoral candidates express views

In the Oct. 4 municipal election, current Kenai City Council member Brian Gabriel is running for the Kenai…

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School buses to share the load in southern peninsula

Among the budget-driven changes coming to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is a new busing system that…

Graphic by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion This map, taken from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Parcel Viewer and modified by the Peninsula Clarion with information from Homer Electric Association's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license application for the Grant Lake Hydroelectric project, shows the existing route of the Iditarod National Historic Trail in blue and HEA's proposed reroute of the trail in pink, as well as the powerhouse and water-diversion tunnel HEA plans to build.

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Officials consider recreational impact of HEA’s Grant Lake hydroelectric project

In one possible future, a footbridge may cross Grant Creek about a half mile from Grant Lake, its…

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Kenai Council postpones cat leash ordinance

Kenai cats could join dogs on the list of animals that city code requires to be restrained either…