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Silas Luke Jones performs on the Ocean Stage at the Kenai Peninsula Fair in Ninilchik, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Peninsula Fair brings festivities in defiance of rainfall

Rain or shine, the fair will be running through the weekend

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 salmon fishing slowing

Northern Kenai Fishing Report for Aug. 10

Sample ballots are displayed ahead of the Oct. 4 municipal election at an absentee in-person polling place in Kenai City Hall on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Election 2023: Who has already filed for local office

Voters will go to the polls this fall

Hoses pump water along Patrick Dr. to help mitigate flooding near Kalifornsky Beach Road on Friday, July 21, 2023, near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly to consider expedited request for K-Beach water study funding

The legislation would pay for a professional engineering or hydrology service for the study of a long-term solution

John “Gus” Knox, right, holds a salmon he caught during the Kenai River Junior Classic in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Smiles and salmon

Junior classic takes kids on the river

Examples of the tags that will be affixed to coho salmon caught by researchers on the Kenai River this year. (Photo courtesy Department of Fish and Game)

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Joint study to tag Kenai River coho

Up to 490 transmitters will be implanted into healthy salmon this year

A spruce bark beetle is seen on the underside of a piece of bark taken from logs stacked near Central Peninsula Landfill on Thursday, July 1, 2021, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough gets $1.5 million to fell beetle-killed trees along roads

The assembly will decide next Tuesday whether or not to accept that money

Kenai City Manager Terry Eubank, right, and Kenai Mayor Brian Gabriel, left, present the annual “State of the City” address at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai to consider utility bonds for water treatment project

The project is estimated to cost $1.2 million

A map shows the Seward Highway MP 17-22.5 Rehabilitation Project area.(Screenshot)

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Seward Highway blasting closures to start earlier in day

The blasting work being done is part of the Seward Milepost 17-22.5 Rehabilitation Project

The Soldotna Landfill is seen on June 27, 2021, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Assembly to consider purchase of temporary, cost-saving landfill covers

4.5 million gallons of leachate are generated each year by snow and rain

Aspen trees offer a spot of red on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at the Hidden Lake Campground in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Sterling, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Refuge reopens Mystery Creek Access Road

Mystery Creek Access Road has been reopened for the season by the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, a Tuesday…

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

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Kenai to replace culvert obstructing baby salmon

The ordinance designates $30,000 for the project

A roadside sign welcomes drivers to Nikiski, Alaska, on Jan. 7, 2019. (Clarion file)

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Nikiski man arrested in connection to Saturday power outage

The outage affected about 35 residents around Emerald Street

From left: Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education members Jason Tauriainen, Matt Morse, Virginia Morgan and Beverley Romanin participate in a board meeting on Monday, July 10, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board revises policy for challenging instructional materials

The revisions newly limit the number of instructional items that a person can challenge at any given time…

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Anchorage man dies near Ninilchik after being struck by car

An Anchorage resident died Sunday morning after being struck by a car on the Sterling Highway near Happy…

Anglers gather along the banks of the Kenai River near Sportsman’s Landing in Cooper Landing in September 2018. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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Russian River sockeye limits double Wednesday

As of Sunday, around 53,000 sockeye salmon have passed the Russian River weir

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Man arrested on drug charges near Salmonfest

Troopers allegedly found an estimated $50,000 in illicit drugs in his tent

A sign warning of a June 28, 2021, bear attack is placed at the head of the Kenai River Trail on Skilak Loop Road in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Peninsula brown bear hunting opens Thursday

The peninsula is managed to keep “human-caused brown bear mortalities” below a certain threshold

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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Northern Kenai dipnetting now closed

Anglers are required to complete online reporting by Aug. 15

Photos by Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion Mynarae Glover stands on her father, James Glover’s shouders during a performance by Medium Build on the River Stage at Salmonfest in Ninilchik, on Friday.

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Art, advocacy and acoustics

Salmonfest 2023 makes for weekend of music and festivity in Ninilchik