Life
Tight Lines: In defense of catch-and-release
Les Palmer’s recent article, and scathing condemnation of catch-and-release fishing, certainly stirred a great deal of debate and…
Arts & Entertainment
Poet’s Corner: Time to Head for the Homestead
Time to Head for the Homestead By Brent Johnson, Clam Gulch If the noise is crazy loud mixing…
Arts & Entertainment
Rarefied Light photography exhibit showing at Kenai Fine Arts Center
Alaska is infested with photographers — for good reason, according to Kenai Peninsula College art professor Cam Choy.…
Arts & Entertainment
Reeling it in: ’13 Hours’ tells a war story, not a political one
“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” Paramount Pictures 2 hours, 24 minutes A Michael Bay movie…
Arts & Entertainment
What’s Happening
Events and Exhibitions ■ The Performing Arts Society proudly presents Borealis Guitar Quartet, a guitar ensemble dedicated to…
Life
Pasta and homemade meatballs with tomatoe sauce
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t enjoy a plateful of spaghetti and meatballs. It’s great family fare and…
Life
Business briefs
■ The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce will not meet this week. At noon on Jan. 26, the chamber…
Life
Unhinged Alaska: The NFL playoffs, non-fan, awareness guide
For the next few weeks, a huge segment of the population will come critically close to OD’ing on…
Life
Students share ideas for solving hunger
Editor’s note: All elementary school students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District were invited by the Kenai…
Life
Learning for Life: Brown bag lunches with style
According to Business News Daily, the average American spends $2,000 on eating lunch out each year. Our wallets…
Life
Hard to love school these days
Several days ago, our paper ran a news story in which Georgia’s 2016 Teacher of the Year told…
Life
Voices of Faith: Thriving in life
This is my first newspaper article of the year. If this were published on the internet, it would…
Life
Church News
Nikiski Aglow begins new study Nikiski Aglow will begin a new study by Graham Cooke called “Life Changers”…
Life
Making sure food from your garden is safe to eat
Gardening delivers produce that is tastier, cheaper and safer than store-bought, right? Well, not necessarily safer. “There’s always…
Life
Refuge Notebook: The Dark Side – photographing our nightscape
I recently received a gift for gracefully aging of a Canon D3300. Being a photography hobbyist and a…
Life
An Outdoor View: The value of patience
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” — Saadi It occurred to me the other…
Life
Curling: Harder than it looks – but lots of fun
The key to curling success is two-fold: put more weight on the broom than the stone and, most…
Arts & Entertainment
Poet’s Corner: The Measure of a Man
The Measure of a Man Unless you really knew Bruce You would not understand So many things to…
Arts & Entertainment
Weaving display features return of restoration lost art
At first glance, the Ravenstail robes don’t look like a piece of lost history. Had it not been…
Arts & Entertainment
This is where it ends
In every class, there are always a few kids you try to avoid. The know-it-all kid, for instance:…