Composting in the winter is no fun! The weekly long, slow trudge out to the compost pile at 20 F below isn’t even an Alaskan’s… Continue reading
Celebrate Mardi Gras at Our Lady of the Angels The 19th Annual Mardi Gras fundraiser will be today at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic… Continue reading
Being a person who makes his living by communication, I may more than the average person be a little more “tuned in” to the choice… Continue reading
BEND, Ore. (AP) — First of all, I must admit that I have never snowshoed simply for the sake of snowshoeing.Until last week, my only… Continue reading
From the warmth of my office, the view includes a magnificent stand of quaking aspens along the ridge near Headquarters Lake. During particularly frosty days… Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I had a dream about fishing. Upon awakening, I was smiling and feeling good, unlike my usual early-morning feeling. I… Continue reading
JUNEAU (AP) — There was a collective sigh of relief as our group reached the Peterson Lake Trail parking lot. A few inches of crusty… Continue reading
Events and Exhibits ■ The Peninsula Art Guild is ‘calling for artists’ to submit up to two of their own original pieces of artwork by… Continue reading
Mountains to ClimbBy Dee Rusin, KenaiAlways another mountain to climbOnce reached the topYou never can stopAlways another mountain to climbAlways a long valley belowStep by… Continue reading
Gardens have held a special place in many artists’ lives, and their creativity was much the better for it.Writer Sir Walter Scott gardened to distance… Continue reading
‘The Imitation Game”The Weinstein Company1 hour, 54 minutesBenedict Cumberbatch is an interesting specimen of actor. I feel like he’s just come about all of a… Continue reading
Lately, you’ve been fighting a lot with your brother.Sometimes, he makes you mad, though, and you just can’t help it! So you yell, and he… Continue reading
Of course, you can always give the one you love a box of assorted chocolates or a big bouquet of flowers for Valentine’s Day. Perhaps… Continue reading
On a farm in Northern Colorado Born in Kansas, Feb. 15, 1914 to1983 Dad always had a story about everything, whether it was long… Continue reading
Lots of people love their slow cookers. Just as many folks don’t. We tend to be in the latter group. Not because we don’t appreciate… Continue reading
Chambers set schedules ■ The Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will host a joint luncheon at noon on Feb. 10 at the Soldotna Regional… Continue reading
We’ve been to a few dinner events this past month. Like our oldest commented when he asked what we’d been doing and I told him,… Continue reading
Phoebe Napolitano, of Kenai, a health sciences major in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, was… Continue reading
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect how organizer Sara Pozonsky characterized Gov. Bill Walker's political orientation. She said he was formerly a… Continue reading