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Around Campus: ‘Gateway to the Associate Arts Degree’ program announced

Beginning in fall 2017, a residential based academic program called ‘Gateway to the AA and Beyond’ will be available to students. The program will create… Continue reading

  • Nov 6, 2016
  • By Suzie Kendrick
  • Schools

Around the District

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 6 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new drainage outlet holds the Kenai Municipal Airport floatplane pond to its winter level of about 4 feet on Thursday, Nov. 3 in Kenai, Alaska. When filled to its summer level, the upper grate, surrounded by a ring-shaped barrier, will prevent it from overflowing.

Kenai airport finishes 2016 work with floatplane pond drainage, sinkhole filling

After a summer spent holding visiting floatplanes from around the state, the Kenai Municipal Airport’s floatplane pond is now a landing site for small groups… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new drainage outlet holds the Kenai Municipal Airport floatplane pond to its winter level of about 4 feet on Thursday, Nov. 3 in Kenai, Alaska. When filled to its summer level, the upper grate, surrounded by a ring-shaped barrier, will prevent it from overflowing.

Agencies, organizations work to count peninsula homeless

Right now, it’s impossible to say exactly how many people are homeless on the central Kenai Peninsula at any given time.Different agencies have guesses based… Continue reading

American seafood consumption stays the course

Though the U.S. government promotes seafood as an omega-3 fat-packed ambrosia deserving two meals a week, consumers aren’t biting.Despite being the second-largest seafood consuming nation,… Continue reading

  • Nov 6, 2016
  • By DJ SUMMERS

First Quarter Honor Rolls

4.0 — 8th Grade: James Baisden, Vanessa Beck, Erin Blum, Taylor Carver, Kaya Cox, Emmarie Edwards-Dean, Courtney Ellis, Caden Fields, Matthew Grzybowski, Gabrielle Hansen, Karley… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sterling Elementary School's Kindness Ambassador speak at a school assembly kicking off the school's "21 Days of Kindness" challenge. Students are challenged throughout November to perform five acts of kindness every day and write it down on slips of paper in their classrooms and in the school office. At the end of the month, the slips will be chained together and hung around the school.

Sterling Elementary School focuses on kindness

Beyond just gifts, hugs and kind words, the teachers and staff at Sterling Elementary School are hoping students will find many ways to be kind… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sterling Elementary School's Kindness Ambassador speak at a school assembly kicking off the school's "21 Days of Kindness" challenge. Students are challenged throughout November to perform five acts of kindness every day and write it down on slips of paper in their classrooms and in the school office. At the end of the month, the slips will be chained together and hung around the school.

J.R. Myers runs State House race as conservative

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct a spelling error. J.R. Myers, a behavioral health consultant for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, is running… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year's National Novel Writing Month on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska. The worldwide creative writing challenge kicks off at the beginning of November and asks participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. The library in Soldotna will host writing days each Saturday where participants can get together to work and share ideas.

Photo: Literary legwork

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year’s National Novel Writing Month on Saturday,… Continue reading

  • Nov 5, 2016
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year's National Novel Writing Month on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska. The worldwide creative writing challenge kicks off at the beginning of November and asks participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. The library in Soldotna will host writing days each Saturday where participants can get together to work and share ideas.

Knopp combines past, present experience in office

When Gary Knopp returned to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in October 2015, he didn’t waste any time jumping back into leadership roles. Within the… Continue reading

Thornton brings energetic, giving attitude to race

Most of Shauna Thornton’s afternoon on Oct. 29 was spent spinning out cotton candy. The next day, she manned a station on the Tsalteshi Trails… Continue reading

Lynch makes nonpartisan run at House seat

Soldotna resident Daniel Lynch originally had no plans to come out of retirement — or his armchair, as he puts it. But the combination of… Continue reading

Photo by Elwood Brehmner/Alaska Journal of Commerce Surrounded by family, Gov. Bill Walker announces to Alaskans that he has been diagnosed with cancer during a briefing Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Gov. Walker has ‘treatable’ form of cancer

Gov. Bill Walker stood with his family and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott to explain his prostate cancer diagnosis to Alaskans during a Friday afternoon briefing… Continue reading

  • Nov 4, 2016
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER
Photo by Elwood Brehmner/Alaska Journal of Commerce Surrounded by family, Gov. Bill Walker announces to Alaskans that he has been diagnosed with cancer during a briefing Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Chenault runs against write-in candidate Pedro Fernandez

Republican Mike Chenault is running for his eighth term as the Alaska State House Representative for the northern Kenai Peninsula, opposed by a write-in campaign… Continue reading

Public weighs in on restoring Soldotna’s year-round sales tax

The city of Soldotna is eschewing the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s wintertime exemption on collecting sales tax on nonprepared food items and will collect the 3… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Christie Abbott's "Skinny Salmon" necklaces hang on display at the Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary Bazaar on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Abbott makes the jewelry out of real salmon skin that she treats, colors and sets into the necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets herself. The skin comes from salmon she and her husband catch - depending on how the season goes, it's mostly either sockeye or coho salmon, she said. The necklaces are also regularly for sale at Trustworthy Hardware and Fishing in Soldotna. The bazaar continues Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Photo: Tis the season

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Christie Abbott’s “Skinny Salmon” necklaces hang on display at the Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary Bazaar on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Christie Abbott's "Skinny Salmon" necklaces hang on display at the Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary Bazaar on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Abbott makes the jewelry out of real salmon skin that she treats, colors and sets into the necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets herself. The skin comes from salmon she and her husband catch - depending on how the season goes, it's mostly either sockeye or coho salmon, she said. The necklaces are also regularly for sale at Trustworthy Hardware and Fishing in Soldotna. The bazaar continues Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Photo courtesy Russell Campbell/Wandering Nomad Photography The Linda Kay burns in the Spit Harbor around 2 a.m. Thursday, November 3, 2016 in Homer, Alaska.

Photos: Smoke in the harbor

Photo courtesy Russell Campbell/Wandering Nomad Photography The Linda Kay burns in the Homer Harbor around 2 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 in Homer, Alaska.… Continue reading

  • Nov 3, 2016
Photo courtesy Russell Campbell/Wandering Nomad Photography The Linda Kay burns in the Spit Harbor around 2 a.m. Thursday, November 3, 2016 in Homer, Alaska.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula residents chat with Marcheta Moulton, the small federal programs manager for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, during an open house Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2016 at Soldotna High School. DOT is hosting public meetings around the state to gather input for a new Alaska Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.

One step at a time: Alaska looks to improve plan for bikes, pedestrians

Between mouthfuls of coffee and cookies, about 20 Kenai Peninsula residents weighed in on improvements they think can be made to the state’s policy and… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula residents chat with Marcheta Moulton, the small federal programs manager for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, during an open house Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2016 at Soldotna High School. DOT is hosting public meetings around the state to gather input for a new Alaska Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.

Sterling teen dies in single vehicle crash

Editor's note: This story has been updated since Alaska State Troopers verified the spelling of Mykha Slater's name. A teenager from Sterling was killed Wednesday… Continue reading

Police note quiet Halloween weekend

This year’s Halloween weekend was not so spooky for the officers overseeing it.Local and statewide police noted few crimes and injuries related to the holiday,… Continue reading