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Kenai Central head coach Jake Brand celebrates victory with the team Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in the Division III state championship game at Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai defeats Barrow for Division III football crown

Long odds best beware when they are faced by Zeke Yragui and the Kenai Central football team.

A sign welcomes visitors on July 7, 2021, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Seward medical center adds mammography services

In Alaska, cancer is the leading cause of death, and breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed

A lone voter fills in their ballot at Soldotna Prep School in Soldotna, Alaska, during Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough, Soldotna, Seward certify election results

Results for multiple borough seats came down to just a handful of votes.

The Kenai Public Health Center is seen on a cloudy Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Syphilis cases remained high in 2022

Last year, 424 cases of syphilis were reported

Nurse Tracy Silta draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the walk-in clinic at the intersection of the Kenai Spur and Sterling Highways in Soldotna, Alaska on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Camille Botello / Peninsula Clarion)

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Updated COVID-19 vaccine locally available

The updated vaccines available in Alaska are produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech

“The Land We Share: A Love Affair Told in Hunting Stories” is held aloft under light rainfall in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

Life

Sharing about sharing the land

Local authors Christine Cunningham and Steve Meyer will discuss their book at upcoming KPC showcase

Photo courtesy Josiah Martin/Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Jon Kruger hands an award for Trophy Catch of the Day to a participant of Catching for a Cause at the Cannery Lodge in Kenai.

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Marathon fundraiser raises $80,000 for food bank

Participants spent two days networking and fishing, first at Big River Lakes across Cook Inlet and then on…

Bear 128 Grazer, with her recognizable blonde ears, wades through the water of the Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Felicia Jimenez/National Park Service)

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Grazer named weighty winner of Fat Bear Week

Over the course of six days of voting, she proved herself the fattest bear of Katmai National Park

The Spot Arcade Games is seen in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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4 arrested in connection to alleged illegal gambling operations

Troopers executed search warrants on The Spot in Kenai and The Arctic Spot in Soldotna

Laura Burke speaks during a community conversation on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Home-school meeting draws dozens

The event was hosted by the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

Kenai Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler Allen Burkett presents Kenai Fire Department’s Pete Coots with an award at the Kenai Elks Lodge in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Elks honor Kenai Fire Department

Receiving medals were Captain Pete Coots and Fire Marshal Jeremy Hamilton

Halloween lights and iconography decorate the corridors of the Haunted Chamber at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘Haunted Chamber’ debuts this week

In the maze on Monday were lights, skeletons, spiders and tombstones

A sign indicates the turn for Jim’s Landing on Skilak Lake Road on Sunday, June 13, 2021, near Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Refuge opens for firewood collection Friday

Cutting is limited to trees already dead and down within the designated areas

Mary Lou Bottorff, a survivor of Holy Cross Mission, holds a picture taken of her en route to Holy Cross Mission taken in Nome in 1948, when she was eight years old, inside the Tyotkas Elder Center on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘You don’t understand unless you lived it’

On day of remebrance, two elders share stories of childhood in a boarding school

The Kenai Municipal Airport is seen on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ravn to end service in Kenai

Ravn Alaska and the Kenai Municipal Airport confirmed Friday that the airline will discontinue its Kenai service starting…

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

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Kenai outlaws marijuana drive-thrus

The state, during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed marijuana establishments to operate drive-thru or walk-up windows

Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche presents information about the borough during a chamber luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Micciche talks home-schooling, emergency services at joint chamber luncheon

He opened Thursday’s presentation by summarizing the results of a community survey that the borough circulated shortly in…

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, testifies before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly during a budget work session on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough, school district present local funding process

The presentation was the second as part of KPBSD’s “Budget 101”

Bill Holt tells a fishing tale at Odie’s Deli on Friday, June 2, 2017, in Soldotna, Alaska. Holt was among the seven storytellers in the True Tales Told Live, an occasional storytelling event co-founded by Pegge Erkeneff, Jenny Nyman and Kaitlin Vadla. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion file)

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True Tales, Told Live returns next week with stories about luck

Life with no notes

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Candidate Bill Elam waves signs on election day on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Voters take to the polls during Tuesday municipal election

Poll workers report low turnout across the central peninsula