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Refuge Notebook: One person’s trash is another’s artifact

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Refuge Notebook: One person’s trash is another’s artifact

Archaeology. OK, what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read that word? I…

Tangled Up in Blue: In the long run

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Tangled Up in Blue: In the long run

Someone asked me if time has been going by quickly or slowly these days.

Refuge Notebook: Learning to love the ‘sweat and shiver’ diet

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Refuge Notebook: Learning to love the ‘sweat and shiver’ diet

Have you ever spent a weekend camping, maybe a long weekend, when the rain never seemed to quit?…

Out of the office: Summer arrives

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Out of the office: Summer arrives

What was I doing?

Kenai Central’s Verkuilen to play soccer at Earlham College

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Kenai Central’s Verkuilen to play soccer at Earlham College

Kenai Central senior Travis Verkuilen committed Monday to play soccer at Division III Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.…

Refuge Notebook: Forest morels: Year after fire brings rewards

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Refuge Notebook: Forest morels: Year after fire brings rewards

2019 will be synonymous with wildland fire for most of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula, and as…

Tangled Up in Blue: AM/FM

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Tangled Up in Blue: AM/FM

I woke up to the sound of a stranger crying and decided to go directly back to bed.…

Refuge Notebook: Recreational safety after the Swan Lake Fire

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Refuge Notebook: Recreational safety after the Swan Lake Fire

Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are all too familiar with wildfire after the summer of 2019. Not only…

Out of the office: Painted blue

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Out of the office: Painted blue

I went to Homer a few weeks ago to find blue.

Swan Lake Fire trails update

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Swan Lake Fire trails update

Last fall the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge was forced to close eight trails due to Swan Lake Fire…

A mural depicting Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as as “Joe Exotic,” in Dallas, Friday, April 10, 2020. The Netflix series “Tiger King,” has become popular watching during the COVID-19 outbreak. Maldonado-Passage was convicted in an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Tangled Up in Blue: Tangled Up in Dough

My coronavirus isolation started off strong.

Pyper Dixon and Erik Johnson, both of Seward, sprint for the finish of the Mount Marathon Race on Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mount Marathon Race postponed indefinitely

There won’t be a Mount Marathon Race on July 4 in Seward for the first time since 1942.

The view of Turnagain Arm, as seen from Hope Point in September 2018. Hope, Alaska, would be a good meeting place for a date once restrictions caused by the new coronavirus are lifted. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Out of the office: Love in the time of corona

How do you find “the one” if you can’t even leave your home?

Refuge Notebook: A helicopter’s role in wildland firefighting

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Refuge Notebook: A helicopter’s role in wildland firefighting

A HECM, or helicopter crewmember, performs an essential role in ensuring the safety and success of aviation operations…

SoHi’s Miller lands DI women’s hockey deal

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SoHi’s Miller lands DI women’s hockey deal

Soldotna High School senior Journey Miller learned Wednesday that she had secured a spot on the women’s hockey…

Kenai River Brown Bears’ Preston Weeks, of Soldotna, acknowledges the crowd as he gets set to set the all-time North American Hockey League record for games played Friday, March 6, 2020, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Soldotna’s Weeks commits to UAA

Soldotna’s Preston Weeks committed Wednesday to play hockey at Division I University of Alaska Anchorage.

Bear Lake. Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/For the Clarion)

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Tangled Up in Blue: Shelter from the storm

I ran into a stranger while enjoying some spring skiing on Bear Lake last week.

Refuge Notebook: Keeping an eye on birds

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Refuge Notebook: Keeping an eye on birds

Around this time of year I start to include a pair of binoculars in my checklist of essentials…

Nikiski’s Lillian Carstens drives to the rim by South’s Paige Noble Saturday at the Rus Hitchcock Nikiski Tip Off tournament. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

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All-state basketball teams announced

The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches announced all-state teams Wednesday.

Out of the Office: Nature in a time of pandemic can heal

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Out of the Office: Nature in a time of pandemic can heal

As I write this I am in my third day of working at home — or, as I…