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Kenai Peninsula College: Around Campus

As one of three surviving delegates to the 1955 Alaska Constitutional Convention, Vic Fischer is uniquely qualified to shed light on the intent of the… Continue reading

  • Oct 23, 2016
  • By Suzie Kendrick
  • Schools
Kaye Fariday helps a boy /name??// from Fireweed Academy bag food at the Homer Food Pantry on Sept. 26 at Homer United Methodist Church.

Homer Food Pantry use increasing

The Homer Community Food Pantry experienced a 115 percent increase in people seeking food assistance between 2013 and 2015. Though the food pantry’s customers have… Continue reading

Kaye Fariday helps a boy /name??// from Fireweed Academy bag food at the Homer Food Pantry on Sept. 26 at Homer United Methodist Church.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Mountain View Elementary second graders Elsa Meyer, 7, and Devin Seaton, 7, wait under their desks with their head and necks covered during this year's Great Alaska ShakeOut earthquake drill Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the school in Kenai, Alaska.

Shake it up: Mountain View joins district in Great Alaska ShakeOut drill

Students in Renee Christensen’s second grade class at Mountain View Elementary in Kenai had just finished their morning snack and were eagerly rattling off answers… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Mountain View Elementary second graders Elsa Meyer, 7, and Devin Seaton, 7, wait under their desks with their head and necks covered during this year's Great Alaska ShakeOut earthquake drill Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the school in Kenai, Alaska.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tom Toguchi of Anchorage caught a king salmon in the Anchor River on the morning of Saturday, May 21, 2016. The river is open for king salmon fishing on May 28-30 and June 1 next week, as well as additional days in June. The limit is one king salmon 20 inches or greater per day per person, five total in possession with only two able to come from the Anchor River or the Anchor River and Deep Creek combined.

Chinook salmon returns still below average

This year’s improvement in king salmon returns in many stream systems across the state may not be the end of a prolonged period of low… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tom Toguchi of Anchorage caught a king salmon in the Anchor River on the morning of Saturday, May 21, 2016. The river is open for king salmon fishing on May 28-30 and June 1 next week, as well as additional days in June. The limit is one king salmon 20 inches or greater per day per person, five total in possession with only two able to come from the Anchor River or the Anchor River and Deep Creek combined.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is conducting repairs on the bridge over the river and has reduced traffic to one lane in either driection. The repairs are scheduled to be finished by Monday, Oct. 31, according to Alaska 511.

Photo: Narrow crossing ahead

Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is conducting repairs on the bridge over the river and has reduced traffic to one lane in either driection. The repairs are scheduled to be finished by Monday, Oct. 31, according to Alaska 511.

Kasilof man dies in car accident

A Saturday night car accident on Kalifornsky Beach Road left a Kasilof man dead.The man, Billy Duncan, 26, was pronounced dead on scene. Alaska State… Continue reading

Kenai could consider legislative funding priorities

Kenai City Council members discussed Wednesday what projects they will request state money for in the coming year, or if they will make formal requests… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new phone app called Time of Need, pictured in use Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska, collects informtion on resources that would be helpful to those who are homeless or near homeless and organizes them in order of proximity to the user. Launched earlier this year, the app uses very little data and can also be used offline. A version of the app for Android phones is future a goal of its creators.

Help at arm’s reach

A project designed to simplify finding help for Alaska’s homeless population and inspired by a former University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student’s work with homeless… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new phone app called Time of Need, pictured in use Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska, collects informtion on resources that would be helpful to those who are homeless or near homeless and organizes them in order of proximity to the user. Launched earlier this year, the app uses very little data and can also be used offline. A version of the app for Android phones is future a goal of its creators.

DOT makes quick fix to broken Kenai traffic light

Motorists trying to get through their evening commutes found an unusual road block Thursday at the intersection of Kalifornsky Beach Road and Bridge Access Road,… Continue reading

District 30 candidates debate budget, energy

Two and a half weeks before Election Day, the four candidates for the District 30 seat in the Alaska House of Representatives debated together for… Continue reading

Mayor says Fairbanks Four deserve compensation

FAIRBANKS (AP) — The mayor of Fairbanks says the city and state should consider compensating the four indigenous men who spent nearly two decades in… Continue reading

  • Oct 22, 2016

Nikiski residents face uncertainty over Alaska gas project

JUNEAU (AP) — Nikiski residents say they’ve been left in limbo by the state and its partners’ decision to suspend plans for a giant natural… Continue reading

  • Oct 22, 2016
Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Two of the five large-format books in the Soldotna's Joyce K. Caver Memorial Library's new collection of photo-books by local artists are shown on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in the Soldotna library. The five books presently in the collection - two featuring lithographs by Jim Evenson and three of photography by Joe Kashi - haven't yet been cataloged and shelved. Kashi, director of arts nonprofit ARTSpace, hopes local artists will contribute books to expand the collection by attending an art reproduction training session he's hosting at the Soldotna Library on Saturday.

ARTSpace project at Soldotna library aims to preserve local art

When a Kenai Peninsula artist finishes a piece, the work may hang for a few months on the walls of a local shop or gallery.… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Two of the five large-format books in the Soldotna's Joyce K. Caver Memorial Library's new collection of photo-books by local artists are shown on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in the Soldotna library. The five books presently in the collection - two featuring lithographs by Jim Evenson and three of photography by Joe Kashi - haven't yet been cataloged and shelved. Kashi, director of arts nonprofit ARTSpace, hopes local artists will contribute books to expand the collection by attending an art reproduction training session he's hosting at the Soldotna Library on Saturday.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Elaina Spraker lends a helping hand to Ava Gabler, 17, during a practice drill in the Teens on Target program Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the Snowshoe Gun Club Range in Kenai, Alaska.

Teens aim high in gun class for girls

Little clouds of breath rose into the air over five teenagers standing stock-still in a row, eyes trained on the targets in front of them.… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Elaina Spraker lends a helping hand to Ava Gabler, 17, during a practice drill in the Teens on Target program Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the Snowshoe Gun Club Range in Kenai, Alaska.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Charred trees stand and cover the ground Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 in the Skilak Lake Recreation Area on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Sterling, Alaska. The refuge is turning a bulldozer line created during the 2015 Card Street wildfire into a hiking trail that incorporates education about fire ecology in the area.

Refuge to make bulldozer line into hiking trail

When last summer’s 8,000-acre Card Street wildfire tore through parts of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and looked like it might threaten the Sterling Highway,… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Charred trees stand and cover the ground Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 in the Skilak Lake Recreation Area on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Sterling, Alaska. The refuge is turning a bulldozer line created during the 2015 Card Street wildfire into a hiking trail that incorporates education about fire ecology in the area.

Joint therapeutic court nears completion

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct that Chief Tribal Court Judge Kim Sweet signed a memorandum of understanding in Fairbanks on Thursday… Continue reading

Board of Fisheries debates board-generated proposals

The Board of Fisheries wrapped up its Soldotna worksession with the discussion of a board-generated proposal to limit the size of boats in the Kenai… Continue reading

ACLU to borough: Drop invocation policy

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska has asked the Kenai Peninsula Borough to back down from its newly passed invocation policy.The organization, which advocates… Continue reading

Fuel spill reported in interior villeage of Beaver

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska environmental regulators are monitoring the cleanup of a fuel spill in the interior village of Beaver.The state Department of Environmental Conservation… Continue reading

  • Oct 20, 2016

Board of Fisheries takes up, denies ACRs

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct an error. The United Cook Inlet Drift Association did not submit the agenda change request regarding… Continue reading