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Board of Fisheries at center of criticism

“The Board of Fisheries is set to be stacked … “

Escape Route, a road connecting the towns of Kenai and Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, is photographed on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough tables state road trade

“Things haven’t been going too well, so we’re going to ask to table it here after the public…

First-year Chapman School teacher Malia Larson speaks to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in support of an ordinance that will appropriate around $2.4 million to the school district in hopes of retaining some non-tenured teachers for the next school year, in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough to vote on district supplemental funding ordinance

The ordinance would appropriate $2,423,955 for the school district’s fiscal year 2019 budget.

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Schools briefs for the week of April 15-21, 2019

What’s happening this week

Local sourdough enthusiasts Lacy Ledahl, Maria Nolas and Elizabeth Cox taught a class at Maggie’s General Store about the benefits and baking opportunities of sourdough, Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Sourdough stories

Local bakers share origins of an Alaskan classic

Students take to Capitol steps in rally for school funding

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Students take to Capitol steps in rally for school funding

People of all ages were fired up.

Community members, parents, staff and students concerned about the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s potential plan to consolidate Soldotna High School and Soldotna Prep School gather in the Soldotna High School Auditorium to get more information about how that consolidation would affect them, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Community discusses consolidation of SoHi, SoPrep

“We’re really here, for the most part, because of the governor’s proposed budget.”

CERT volunteers run OEM’s Mobile Command Center during a simulated neighborhood evacuation in Kenai, Alaska on Saturday, April 13, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Putting responders to the test

Office of Emergency Management simulates disaster response efforts for Alaska Shield 2019

In this March 13, 2019, file photo, Jessie Royer passes icebergs in open water on Norton Sound as she approaches Nome, Alaska, in the Iditarod trail sled dog race. When a Feb. 22 storm pounded Norton Sound, water surged up the Yukon River and into Kotlik, flooding low-lying homes. The Bering Sea last winter saw record-low sea ice. Climate models predicted less ice, but not this soon, said Seth Danielson, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

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Pace of Bering Sea changes startles scientists

“This is the first I experienced in my life, a flood that happened in the winter, in February”

Teachers and support staff from across the Kenai Peninsula fill the Betty J. Glick Borough Assembly Chambers during the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Education Board meeting in Soldotna, Alaska on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough to decide school district contribution

The resolution from the borough is proposing to offer the school district $47,314,477.

Rep. Tammie Wilson, right, speaks to other representatives on the House of Representatives floor on Wednesday. (Alex McCarthy | Juneau Empire)

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House passes budget that rejects many Dunleavy cuts

Not everyone’s happy about it.

Dinner and a show?

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Dinner and a show?

Triumvirant dinner theater makes 14th appearance with “Sockeye Balboa”

Mayor Charlie Pierce speaks at a Kenai Peninsula Borough meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Residents question mayor’s absence from assembly

The mayor’s office said Pierce would not be in until the week of April 15

Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Kenai, and Rep. Dave Talerico, R-Healy, sit next to each other after Knopp voted not to confirm Talerico as Speaker of the House on Tuesday. (Alex McCarthy | Juneau Empire)

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Rep. Knopp talks budget, House plans moving forward

“From day one my priority was getting a budget passed and into the Senate”

Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, center, speaks with Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak and Rep. Steve Thompson, R-Fairbanks, during a House floor session on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Alex McCarthy | Juneau Empire)

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Permanent Fund Dividend looms as House wades through budget

They still hadn’t talked about the dividend.

In this March 8, 2019 photo, Margie Beedle, left, hugs her mother, Sally Thibodeau, as they chat with Alaska Pioneer Home employee Laura Minne during the home’s weekly ice cream social. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Alaska eyeing proposal to raise Pioneer Home rates

Proposal would add two tiers to an existing three-tier program.

A bear sits at a picnic table in this undated file photo. (File)

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Warming weather means bears

“This time of year there’s not a lot of food for them”

Pair of Alaskan authors to share parallel experiences at KPC Showcase

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Pair of Alaskan authors to share parallel experiences at KPC Showcase

“A lot of people are afraid to open a book of poetry.”

A spruce tree showing heavy damage from spruce bark beetles stands on Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boetttger/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Beetles create risk of falling trees at 2 campgrounds

Campers could be hurt by toppling trees killed by spruce bark beetles

Soldotna police searching for man suspected of credit union vandalism

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Soldotna police searching for man suspected of credit union vandalism

The manager estimated the cost of some of the damages at $1,256.58