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Homer’s Carter Tennison runs in for a touchdown Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, against Kodiak at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Football roundup: SoHi, Homer secure wins

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Soldotna’s Jordan Strausbaugh makes her way down the course during the Colony Invitational on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, at Colony High School. Strausbaugh finished fourth. (Photo by Jeremiah Bartz/Frontiersman)

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Grace cross-country sweeps Colony Invite

The Grace Christian girls and boys cross-country teams swept the Colony Invitational on Saturday in the Matanuska-Susitna valleys.

The Lost Lake Trail just outside of Seward, Alaska, on Sept. 12, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Inokuma, Fletcher win Lost Lake Run

Palmer’s Meg Inokuma and Anchorage’s Aaron Fletcher picked up victories at the Lost Lake Run on Saturday outside…

Kenai Central's Cali Holmes attacks Soldotna in the final of the Shayna Pritchard Memorial Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, at Nikiski High School in Nikiski, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai defends Pritchard crown

By JEFF HELMINIAK

Houston running back Cody Wyrick tries to get past Nikiski's Truit McCaughey and Christian Caddock on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at Nikiski High School in Nikiski, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Houston football shuts out Nikiski

Houston football coach Glenn Nelson said his squad has been a running team since the coach arrived in…

Fireweed blooms along the Skyline Trail on Aug. 13, 2021, on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Refuge Notebook: Alaska ‘Super Bloom’: The beauty of regrowth

By SANJA ZELEN

A waterfall flows at McCullough Gulch in Colorado on Aug. 5, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak)

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Out of the Office: Best-laid plans

The plan was for the family to meet in Colorado to try and summit one of the state’s…

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Kenai, Homer volleyball notch wins

The host Kenai Central volleyball team moved to 2-0 in nontournament play with a nonconference sweep of Bethel…

Kenai Central's Valerie Villegas digs up a ball against Sitka on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai volleyball sweeps Sitka

The Kenai Central volleyball team lost just one set in a 2020 season truncated by the pandemic before…

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Week 3: Seward, Valdez to play 9-man football

There will be nine-man football in Seward on Saturday at 1 p.m. when the Seahawks play a nonconference…

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Results posted for Soldotna Cycle Series

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Soldotna's Jordan Strausbaugh races to 17th place in the girls varsity race at the Ted McKenney XC Invitational on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, at Tsalteshi Trails just outside of Soldotna, Alaska. "We run for Ted" is written on Strausbaugh's thigh in honor of former Soldotna coach Ted McKenney. Strausbaugh runs with South's Elizabeth Page and Eagle River's Ava Trembath. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ted McKenney Invite returns

Big running race had 2 years off

A row of footballs iat the Homer-Seward game at Homer, Alaska, on Aug. 29, 2020. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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SoHi, Homer, Kenai football drop games

Host Lathrop snapped Soldotna’s 22-game winning streak with a 27-21 nonconference victory Friday night in a matchup of…

Hikers look at the Harding Icefield in August 2015 in Kenai Fjords National Park, just outside of Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Tangled Up In Blue: Slowing down

I’m finding myself, more than ever, falling into bouts of anger, and it’s making me mad.

A mountain hemlock burned in the 2019 Swan Lake Fire, pictured June 29, 2021. (Photo by Matt Bowser/USFWS)

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Refuge Notebook: When hemlocks burn

By MATT BOWSER

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Week 2: SoHi, Kenai ready to open season

After losing Week 1 due to games canceled by positive COVID-19 tests, Soldotna and Kenai Central will play…

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Results posted for Mineshaft Grinder

The Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area celebrated the mining history in Hope by holding the Mineshaft Grinder…

Former Kenai River Brown Bears head coach Kevin Murdock and new head coach Josh Dubinsky take to the ice Friday, April 23, 2021, against the Chippewa (Wisconsin) Steel at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Dubinsky ends up Bears head coach after whirlwind offseason

NAHL team is less than a month away from season opener

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Fleetwood wins KBay Mountain Classic

Anne Fleetwood led 31 runners to the finish line of the Grace Ridge Race - KBay Mountain Classic…

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Monroe football topples Nikiski

The host Monroe Catholic football team defeated Nikiski 52-14 on Tuesday in Denali Conference play in Fairbanks.