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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Alaska Waste driver Will Bunch navigate's a dump truck's arms as he deposits the contents of a bin into the back of the truck on Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska.

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Waste not want not

Alaska Waste driver Will Bunch nodded at the mud as he navigated a heavy truck through milling crowds…

Photo courtesy Vicki Duggin Vicki Duggin of Nikiski, who said she fishes a personal use gillnet at the mouth of the Kasilof River every year, posted signs around the river mouth asking the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to save the buoys and trees among other changes in its plans to develop the north side of the Kasilof River mouth near Kasilof, Alaska.

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Paving the way: DNR project will establish dipnet infrastructure at Kasilof River mouth

Fish have played a major role throughout Kasilof’s history. The Dena’ina people fished and lived near the mouth…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A man rows his way across Lower Summit Lake on a sunny morning Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.

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Fishing report: Silvers start to show, trout heat up on Kenai

The river may be quieter and the campgrounds emptier, but there’s still plenty of fishing to be had…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A pressure canner sits on the table at the Kenai Cooperative Extension Service office on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Cooperative Extension Service offers instruction on how to can fish at its office and in community classes.

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Don’t want to freeze a catch? Try canning it

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to show that cans in pressure canners should be covered by…

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New cancer doctor joins practice in Soldotna

Peninsula Radiation Oncology Center patients may see another new face when they come for treatment in Soldotna. Dr.…

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Assembly delays decision on planning commission membership

The various city and advisory planning commissions around the Kenai Peninsula Borough will get another chance to review…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Two visitors walk their dogs across the Chickaloon Flats on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 in Hope, Alaska. The small town on the northern edge of the Kenai Peninsula, nearly directly across the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet from Anchorage, attracts visitors for its historical district and its recreational opportunities, including hiking and biking trails and the chance to pan for gold in nearby Resurrection Creek.

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Photo: One last summer stroll

Two visitors walk their dogs across the Resurrection Creek on Sunday in Hope. The small town on the…

Samantha Nushart, an employee at Double O Express, holds a complete order at the restaurant on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The restaurant recently moved from its old location next to the Bow Bar in Old Town Kenai to a brick-and-mortar location in the Kenai Airport that used to house Odie's Deli.

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Double O Express moves into new, expanded space

The Double O Express’ new home is a hop, skip, leap and a jump from its old home.…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Employees and customers of the Kenai Walmart Supercenter return to the  store after being briefly evacuated for a phoned-in bomb threat Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Several others were phoned in to stores in the Anchorage area.

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Bomb threat called in to Kenai Walmart

Police in Kenai responded to a bomb threat at the Kenai Walmart on Monday morning. Employees and customers…

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Marijuana entrepreneurs ask assembly to put off vote on marijuana ban petition

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the date of the Oct. 4 municipal regular election.…

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Assembly passes property tax code changes

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the date of the Oct. 4 municipal regular election.…

A sockeye salmon makes its flight into the back of a truck on a set gillnet site on July 11, 2016 near Kenai, Alaska. Commercial fishermen in Upper Cook Inlet are winding down a season that did not live up to the preseason forecast of a large sockeye salmon run.

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Upper Cook Inlet commercial fishing winds down

The boom of fish the commercial operations in Upper Cook Inlet expected never arrived this year. High preseason…

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Walker delays action on CFEC administrative changes

The Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission won’t transfer some of its administrative functions into the Alaska Department of Fish…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion An angler untangles a pink salmon from a net and fishing line on a fishing boardwalk on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska.

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For Kenai anglers, everything’s coming up pink

Most of the catch to be found in the Kenai River at present is pink instead of silver.…

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Assembly takes no action on invocation

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings will still open with a prayer for the foreseeable future. The assembly invites…

Thomas Salas holds the pink salmon he caught Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 in the Kenai River. The fish weighed in at 12 pounds, 13 ounces, beating the previous state record of 12 pounds, 9 ounces. Salas held the record for a few hours before Robert Dubar brought in his 13 pound, 10.6 ounce fish.

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State pink salmon record broken twice in one day

After 42 years, the Alaska state record for a sport-caught pink salmon was broken — twice. Thomas Salas…

Photo by DJ Summers/Alaska Journal of Commerce Cannabis clones sit on a rack in Greatland Ganja's Kasilof farm. After growing to the required size, the plants will be moved from the indoor grow room to an outdoor greenhouse. Each carries a tag that registers the plant's type and the overall quantity of plants in the facility.

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Commercial marijuana ban voter initiative validated

A citizen petition to ask voters whether commercial marijuana operations should be banned in the Kenai Peninsula Borough…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion David Schmitt, the COO of Industrial Hemp Manufacturing in Spring Hope, North Carolina, demonstrates how kenaf fiber can absorb spilled oil at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Economic Development District on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Schmitt said the kenaf fiber, a wood-like plant, can absorb 30 times as much as clay composite, which is regularly used to help clean up land-based oil spills.

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Hemp proposed as construction, oil spill material

When an oil spill occurs, one of the first reactions is to use something to mop it up.…

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Belugas, infrastructure among concerns for Lower Cook Inlet oil lease

A few Kenai-area residents turned out Thursday to offer their advice on a draft environmental impact statement for…

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Classic Roundtable calls for separate saltwater sportfishing regulations

While the federal government is reevaluating the Magnuson-Stevens Act for reauthorization, recreational fishing groups would like to change…