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Angel Patterson-Moe and Natalie Norris stand in front of one of their Red Eye Rides vehicles in Seward, Alaska, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Red Eye Rides to launch new route from Kenai to Seward or Anchorage

The shuttle service has been ferrying people up and down the Seward Highway since 2022

Kenai Peninsula College Director Cheryl Siemers speaks at a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Peninsula College celebrates 60 years of instruction

The college celebrated its anniversary during its annual open house last week

A map created within the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s parcel viewer in September 2017 displays in green the Swanson Square property and in blue the property of the Steve Shearer Memorial Ball Park in Kenai, Alaska. Because the properties are within 500 feet of one another, the City of Kenai has now twice rejected marijuana retail operations in Swanson Square. (Map by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion File)

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Kenai PZ commission denies Canna Get Happy variance application

The proposed location is in Swanson Square next to Salvation Army along the Kenai Spur Highway

Samantha Springer receives the Outstanding Individual in Tourism award at Industry Appreciation Day in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Individuals and businesses recognized at Industry Appreciation Day

The Kenai Softball Greenstrip was packed on Saturday, Aug. 17, as hundreds gathered to recognize local industries and…

Kenai City Hall on Feb. 20, 2020, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai awards $700,000 contract for rehabilitation of airport fire station

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning system at the facility is at the end of its life

Monitor Robert Begich counts the salmon pulled ashore and looks for king salmon at a test site for beach seine gear near Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai council opposes Endangered Species Act listing for chinook

The city both stated their opposition to that proposed listing, as well as the National Marine Fisheries Service’s…

Supporters of Rep. Justin Ruffridge, R-Soldotna, and Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, wave signs on the side of the Sterling Highway in Soldotna, Alaska, during the Alaska Primary Election Day on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Bjorkman, Ruffridge, Vance lead in primary election results

House District 8 candidates Elam and Hillyer in close contention

A sockeye salmon rests atop a cooler at the mouth of the Kasilof River on Monday, June 26, 2023, in Kasilof, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Low coho returns spur slew of bag limit reductions

A Northern Kenai Fishing Report published by the State Department of Fish and Game on Wednesday says that…

Students sit down to read books on the first day of the school year at Tustumena Elementary School in Kasilof, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘Right back into the swing’

Students return to KPBSD schools for 2024-2025 year

The Community Ride for Parking Policy Change rolls along Nikishka Beach Road in Nikiski, Alaska, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Nikiski parents organize drive in search of looser ATV policy

Organizers are hoping to see change in the school’s parking policy to allow students to ride their ATVs…

Flyer for the 2024 Candidate Forum Series by KDLL 91.9 FM and the Peninsula Clarion. (Ashlyn O’Hara/KDLL 91.9)

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Clarion, KDLL candidate forum series returns

First forum with candidates for Kenai City Council is Aug. 26

Briar Oden is the first to start pushing a new ambulance into the garage at the Kenai Public Safety Building in Kenai, Alaska, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Fire Department puts new ambulances into service

Ambulances are used for 80% of the department’s calls

A sockeye salmon rests atop a cooler at the mouth of the Kasilof River on Monday, June 26, 2023, in Kasilof, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sockeye fishing slows; silvers start to arrive

Northern Kenai Fishing Report

A voting booth for the Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Homer elections at Cowles Council Chambers on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke/ Homer News)

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Election 2024: Here’s who’s running in local races

The candidate filing period closed Thursday, Aug. 15

Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs Senate Bill 179, while Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, right, stands by on Aug. 13, 2024. (Photo provided by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman)

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Bjorkman property tax bill signed into law

The bill cuts property taxes for farmers and prevents transfer taxes on the sale of houses

Troopers Joseph Miller Jr. and Jason Woodruff are seen as K9 Olex bites Ben Tikka in a screenshot from body camera footage taken in Kenai, Alaska, on May 24, 2024. (Photo provided by Alaska Department of Law)

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Assault charges brought against 2 Soldotna troopers after man mauled, beaten during arrest

Officers approached the man after mistaking him for his cousin

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Candidates report fundraising totals ahead of primary election

Incumbents still show strong leads in campaign fundraising in all but the race for House District 6

A ballot partition is at the Kenai No. 2 precinct for Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Alaska primary election is on Tuesday

Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Realtor of the Year Amanda Davis, center, stands with Kenai Peninsula Association of Realtors President Randy Work and 2022 Realtor of the Year Natalia Aulenbacher on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Association of Realtors)

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Local association names Realtor of the Year

Davis said Tuesday that she was surprised to win the award and be recognized by the people she…

Organizer Alana Martin looses the racers for the Brewery to Bathroom .5K “The Race for the Rest of Us” at Kenai River Brewing in Soldotna, Alaska, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Brewery to Bathroom brings in $6,000 to combat cancer

The annual event is a sort-of parody of 5K charity runs