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International Fly Fishing Film Tour comes to Kenai

The local Trout Unlimited Chapter is bringing the International Fly Fishing Film Festival to the peninsula. The event…

A child watches as her line and weight sink into the water at an Alaska Department of Fish and Game-stocked fish pond at the annual Sports and Rec Trade Show at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Sunday, April 29, 2018 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sport, Rec and Trade show celebrates 34th year

This year’s Kenai Peninsula Sport, Rec and Trade Show is the biggest it’s been in over a decade,…

Gov. Mike Dunleavy. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Dunleavy not planning marijuana board repeal this session

The decision was based session time left and Dunleavy’s focus on other legislative priorities.

David Teal, Director of the Legislative Finance Division, gives his analysis of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s state budget to the Senate Finance Committee at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Permanent fund dividend still a major question mark this session

They tried to take a look to the future.

Major issues unresolved in legislative session’s final weeks

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Major issues unresolved in legislative session’s final weeks

Gov. Dunleavy is facing resistance to pieces of his agenda.

Kenai police to purchase new radios

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Kenai police to purchase new radios

Kenai Police Department applied for and received a $100,000 grant

A construction worker directs traffic near the intersection of the Kenai Spur Highway and Beaver Loop Road on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in Kenai, Alaska. Construction work on multiple roads will continue through the summer. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Construction season gets underway

Road projects slated for Sterling Highway, K-Beach and Kenai Spur

An Alaska SeaLife Center animal care specialist feeds a sea otter pup. The female pup was admitted Tuesday, April 9, 2019, after the newborn was found floating alone in Kachemak Bay. (Photo courtesy Alaska SeaLife Center)

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SeaLife Center rescues newborn sea otter pup

The newborn was floating alone in Kachemak Bay

South Peninsula Hospital CEO Joseph Woodin attends an open house for the expanded and remodeled Homer Medical Clinic on March 30, 2018, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Woodin resigns as South Peninsula Hospital CEO

Woodin was appointed by the SPH Operating Board in February 2018

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Court of Appeals upholds sexual assault conviction; remands to court issue of sentencing

The Alaska Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Fairbanks man who sexually assaulted a Homer…

Dale Cocklin of Two Peas in a Pod Farm sells an abundance of root vegetables like beets, kohlrabi, carrots and more at his stand at the Tuesday, Aug. 28. 2018 Farmers Fresh Market at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Farmers Market season is just around the corner

“We have a quite a few more vendors and a couple of new farmers.”

Amy Herrick, manager at the Alaskan Kush Company downtown retail store, talks about the possibility of opening an onsite consumption space on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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Smoke ‘em if you bought ‘em:

Juneau marijuana retailers would like to offer smoking space

An aerial photo taken in 2014 shows the current South Peninsula Hospital campus. (Photo provided)

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Former SPH nurses allege age discrimination

They claim SPH management personnel planned to force the plaintiffs to leave because of their age

Community members participate in an exploratory meeting Monday, April 15, 2019 to discuss the possibility of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District consolidating Homer High School and Homer Middle School, held at the high school in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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District considers consolidating Homer High, Homer Middle Schools

“Please know that this is not a done deal”

Schools briefs for the week of April 22, 2019

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Schools briefs for the week of April 22, 2019

What’s happening this week

From left, the Caring for the Kenai finalists Akilena Veach and Lindy Guernsey (second place), Austin Cline (first place), and Anna DeVolld (third place) pose for a photo at Kenai Central High School in Alaska on Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Eco inspiration

Homer High student takes 1st place at Caring for the Kenai for turning plastic into 3D printer filament

Musician Mika Day performs for market attendees at this year’s final Wednesday Market, on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Summer Music in the Park lineup released

The series will kick off June 5 with Blackwater Railroad Company

John O’Brien was offered the position of interim superintendent of schools for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District on Friday, April 5, 2019, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of the Pegge Erkeneff/Kenai Peninsula Borough School District)

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School board approves interim superintendent John O’Brien’s contract

“I am committed to the students, parents, and staff of this District …”

Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Nikiski. (File photo)

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Nikiski Rep. Carpenter talks House budget, state priorities

“We need to grow the economy.”

This artist’s rendering shows a conceptual design for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s new Education Campus. The facility will be built at the southwest corner of the Kenai Spur Highway and South Forest Drive in Kenai. (Rendering courtesy Kenaitze Indian Tribe)

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Kenaitze Tribe unveils plans for new education campus

The project is estimated to cost around $10 million.