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Progress Days festival

Progress Days festival

The rain held off for two of the three Progress Days festivities. Market Daze, the new kick-off for the traditional summer festival began Thursday afternoon… Continue reading

Progress Days festival

Citizen group submits marijuana ban petition

Editor's note: This article has been corrected to reflect the correct date for the determination deadline for the petition. The Kenai Peninsula Borough clerk’s office… Continue reading

Photo courtesy Ravin Swan From left to right: Nuk'it'un Director Glenda Isham, President Ravin Swan, Director Beth Selby, Director Valerie Anderson, member Rusty Seaman and member Danna Schoof. Nuk'it'un opened a sober living home for men in recovery last month.

Local group opens sober living home for men

Whether directly or indirectly, the effects of drug abuse eventually touch everyone — that’s the philosophy on which a group of concerned community members based… Continue reading

Photo courtesy Ravin Swan From left to right: Nuk'it'un Director Glenda Isham, President Ravin Swan, Director Beth Selby, Director Valerie Anderson, member Rusty Seaman and member Danna Schoof. Nuk'it'un opened a sober living home for men in recovery last month.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Magical concoctions, spellbinding books and cobwebs adorn the snack table during a Harry Potter Birthday Bash on Friday, July 29, 2016 at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska.

Harry Potter Birthday Bash celebrates literacy, beloved series

Between homemade wands and wizard trivia, children who attended the Kenai Community Library’s Harry Potter Birthday Bash on Friday had their hands and imaginations full.… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Magical concoctions, spellbinding books and cobwebs adorn the snack table during a Harry Potter Birthday Bash on Friday, July 29, 2016 at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska.

Assembly requires member on nonprofit boards

Tourism- and public transportation-oriented nonprofits that get funding from the Kenai Peninsula Borough will have another member on their boards — an assembly representative.A resolution… Continue reading

Eroding Alaska village to vote on whether to move or stay

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A tiny island village on Alaska’s storm-battered western coast is entering a new chapter in its decades-long pursuit to move the entire… Continue reading

  • Jul 31, 2016
  • By Rachel D'oro
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Fresh salmon on ice wait to be delivered to Kenai Wild Salmon Co. customers on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Chuck Lindsay, one of the owners, is a direct seafood marketer, taking part of his catch directly to customers rather than going through a processor.

From sea to sale: Fishermen skip processors, go straight to buyers

Many of the salmon that wind up in the nets of the fishing vessel Ounce have their buyer’s name on them from the moment they… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Fresh salmon on ice wait to be delivered to Kenai Wild Salmon Co. customers on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Chuck Lindsay, one of the owners, is a direct seafood marketer, taking part of his catch directly to customers rather than going through a processor.

Soldotna simplifies code enforcement

The Soldotna City Council has updated its code to simplify enforcing city ordinances.Council members unanimously enacted an ordinance at their Wednesday meeting that changes the… Continue reading

Soldotna home-rule charter makes election ballot

Soldotna voters will decide whether they want to be part of a home-rule city during the upcoming October regular election.The home-rule charter that Soldotna commission… Continue reading

Ninilchik subsistence gillnet is in the Kenai River

A year and half later, the Ninilchik Traditional Council may set its subsistence sockeye gillnet in the Kenai River in 2016.On July 27, the Federal… Continue reading

  • Jul 30, 2016
  • By DJ SUMMERS
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Centrol Emergency Services personnel inspect a Chevrolet HHR that collided with a GMC Yukon on Kalifornsky Beach Road near Diamond M Ranch resort on Saturday, July 30 2016 near Kenai, Alaska. The drivers of the HHR and the Yukon were both killed and a female passenger in the Yukon was transported to Central Peninsula Hospital with injuries. Alaska Troopers on scene did not release the victims' names because their families hadn't yet been notified.

Two die in K-Beach collision

  Update 7 p.m.: Alaska State Troopers have released the names of two men who died this afternoon in a head-on collision on Kalifornsky Beach… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Centrol Emergency Services personnel inspect a Chevrolet HHR that collided with a GMC Yukon on Kalifornsky Beach Road near Diamond M Ranch resort on Saturday, July 30 2016 near Kenai, Alaska. The drivers of the HHR and the Yukon were both killed and a female passenger in the Yukon was transported to Central Peninsula Hospital with injuries. Alaska Troopers on scene did not release the victims' names because their families hadn't yet been notified.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Members of Ptarmigan Ptrials worked to make sure the new singletrack going in at Tsalteshi Trails, picutred Wednesday, July 27, 2016, has a flow that will make it enjoyable for bikers to ride. Though the trail is optimized for bikers, it will be multiuse.

Tsalteshi singletrack construction underway

Avid bikers and others can look forward to riding a new singletrack that will stretch from Kalifornsky Beach Road to Skyview Middle School, well underway… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Members of Ptarmigan Ptrials worked to make sure the new singletrack going in at Tsalteshi Trails, picutred Wednesday, July 27, 2016, has a flow that will make it enjoyable for bikers to ride. Though the trail is optimized for bikers, it will be multiuse.

Kenai purchases land for South Beach access road

Editor's note: The house in an image that previously appeared with this story was mistakenly identified as the house Kenai acquired with its land purchase.… Continue reading

Independent U.S Senate Candidate Margaret Stock poses for a campaign portrait in February 2016.

U.S Senate candidate Margaret Stock running as independent

Independent U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Stock — one of 13 candidates challenging Lisa Murkowski in this year’s Senate race — spent last Sunday at her… Continue reading

Independent U.S Senate Candidate Margaret Stock poses for a campaign portrait in February 2016.
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Cathy Cline, a project technician with the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, displays an otolith she extracted from a hatchery-raised chinook to children dissecting fish at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's "Get Out and Get Dirty" daycamp on Thursday, July 28 at the Kenai National Wildlife headquarters in Soldotna. An otolith is a fish's earbone, which grows in layers of varying thickness dependent on the fish's water temperature. Hatcheries vary water temperature to produce an otolithic "signature" identifying the fish's origin. Cline, who describes herself as CIAA's "otolith reader" said she microscopically examines around 10,000 otoliths per year - sampled from fish delivered to processors - to learn about the fish's environment and the sucesses of various hatcheries.

Fish guts

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Cathy Cline, a project technician with the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, displays an otolith she extracted from a hatchery-raised king salmon to… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Cathy Cline, a project technician with the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, displays an otolith she extracted from a hatchery-raised chinook to children dissecting fish at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's "Get Out and Get Dirty" daycamp on Thursday, July 28 at the Kenai National Wildlife headquarters in Soldotna. An otolith is a fish's earbone, which grows in layers of varying thickness dependent on the fish's water temperature. Hatcheries vary water temperature to produce an otolithic "signature" identifying the fish's origin. Cline, who describes herself as CIAA's "otolith reader" said she microscopically examines around 10,000 otoliths per year - sampled from fish delivered to processors - to learn about the fish's environment and the sucesses of various hatcheries.

Clinton takes Democratic nomination

PHILADELPHIA — Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifier for divided times, steeled for a volatile world by… Continue reading

  • Jul 28, 2016
  • By JULIE PACE and ROBERT FURLOW

Food Directory helps support local farms

Many local farmers report a lack of visibility. Word-of-mouth marketing was enough for Matt Applehanz, who co-owns M & M Produce with his wife Mary… Continue reading

  • Jul 28, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Senior exemption reducton goes to ballot

Kenai Peninsula voters will decide whether to continue the borough’s optional senior property tax exemption in this fall’s election.The proposal comes out of a comprehensive… Continue reading

Sales tax cap increase goes to ballot

Editor's note: This article has been updated to show that the borough's optional senior property tax exemption would be phased out under a proposed borough… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Dipnetters haul a salmon onto the north Kenai beach on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery, which opened July 10, will close Sunday for the year. Thousands of Alaskans have come to the beaches and camped in tents, tarps and RVs to get their annual limit of sockeye salmon from the Kenai River.

Seeing reds

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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Dipnetters haul a salmon onto the north Kenai beach on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery, which opened July 10, will close Sunday for the year. Thousands of Alaskans have come to the beaches and camped in tents, tarps and RVs to get their annual limit of sockeye salmon from the Kenai River.