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Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion In this May 3, 2016 file photo, outgoing Kenai City Manager Rick Koch speaks at the Soldotna Sports Complex in Soldotna. On December 31 Koch will officially leave the post of Kenai City Manager, which he's held since February 2006, to be replaced by Paul Ostrander.

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Changing of the guard: 2017 brings new city manager to Kenai

Like that ubiquitous cartoon of the grizzled old year shuffling away as the fresh-faced infant of the new…

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Two found dead in camper fire

Crews from the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Central Emergency Services responded to a burning camping trailer on Cardwell Road,…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Ray (left) and Marianne Nickleson laugh with friends over a Christmas lunch of ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, and pie at the Kenai Senior Center on Sunday, Dec. 25 in Kenai.

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Season’s greetings

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Masked wrestler Phoenix Kid launches off the ropes at his grounded opponent, the Electric Redneck, during a pro-style wrestling match at the Fight Before Christmas martial arts event on Thursday, Dec. 22 in Soldotna's Peninsula Center Mall.

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Fight before Christmas

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8 applicants seek Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly seat

Eight people — coming from diverse backgrounds in media, management, academics, utilities, and business — have applied to…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion  Broken plates of ice lay on the banks of the Kenai River as mist obscures the view of Mt. Redoubt on Thursday, Dec. 22 in Kenai.

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Photo: Down by the river

Broken plates of ice line the banks of the Kenai River as mist obscures the view of Mt.…

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HEA directors look at regulated future

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to add the amount HEA spent on the deregulation campaign.  After…

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HEA will not deregulate

Homer Electric Association will remain under the oversight of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, the agency which oversees…

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Horse quiz team readies for national competition

Having proven themselves to be the biggest horse nerds in Alaska, members of the North Wind Riders 4-H…

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Vanessa Wilkison, a member of the Anchorage-based Fireweed Flutes quartet, performs a solo piece on Saturday, Dec. 17 at Christ Lutheran Church in Kenai. Wilkison traveled to Kenai to play in a free flute and violin concert featuring students of flautist Tomoka Raften and violinist Ida Pearson.

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Photo: Winds and strings

Sean Raften performs in a violin ensemble with his teacher, Ida Pearson, and other students in a flute…

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Kenai manager anticipates difficult future budgeting

Declining sales taxes, anticipated reductions in state revenue sharing and pension funding, the rearrangement of a state meal…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Senator Peter Micciche (R-Soldotna) gestures at a graph of state economic data while presenting to members of the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.

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3 legislators look to next session

When the new Alaska Legislature meets on Jan. 17, 2017, Sen. Peter Micciche (R-Soldotna) will take his first…

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Hilcorp seeks Falls Creak Area expansion

Oil and gas company Hilcorp Alaska wants to add about 40 acres of land to a gasfield located…

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Utility regulators to investigate HEA subsidiary’s deregulation election

In an order issued Wednesday, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska opened an investigation into whether the Homer Electric…

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School board to examine health care costs

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education will take a look at the district’s rising spending…

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Kenai students preparing spaghetti feed

Those hungry for spaghetti this weekend will be able to satisfy themselves in the name of charity at…

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Vendors, swamped boats, drop-off fee discussed at Kenai dipnet meeting

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to show that Glenn Arundell did not himself propose a 50…

Seward Elementary teacher Jason Leslie counts students before crossing a creek to Manitoba cabin during a field trip on Tuesday, Nov. 11 near the Seward Highway.

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Seward class tries gold panning

Manitoba cabin sits on a wooded hill overlooking a creek about three quarters of a mile from the…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion  A marijuana grow belonging to Kenai's Red Run Cannabis Company, a combined marijuana cultivator and retailer, sits in a growing room on Monday, Nov. 21. Red Run opened Monday, selling marijuana grown by the Kasilof-based Greatland Ganja, but hopes to have their own  product on the market in January 2017.

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Kenai marijuana store opens

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Greatland Ganja co-owner and cofounder Leif…

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ConocoPhillips LNG plant sale will not immediately impact local economy

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct the spelling of Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor’s special assistant for…