2 members of ‘Alaskan Bush People’ family sentenced to jail

JUNEAU — Two members of the family featured on the reality TV show “Alaskan Bush People” were sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail after… Continue reading

  • Jan 11, 2016
  • By Becky Bohrer
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kenai River Brewing Company co-owner Doug Hogue stands in the future brewing space in the brewing company's new building on Forty-Seventh Street in Soldotna.

Kenai River Brewing Company prepares for move

Even with walls of plywood and bare fixtures, the new Kenai River Brewing Company building gives off a welcoming air. Situated with its back to… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kenai River Brewing Company co-owner Doug Hogue stands in the future brewing space in the brewing company's new building on Forty-Seventh Street in Soldotna.
Senior tells of exchange year in Thailand

Senior tells of exchange year in Thailand

A year ago while the Soldotna Rotary Club hosted a foreign exchange student from Thailand named Chang, SoHi student Anna Wrobel was in the same… Continue reading

Senior tells of exchange year in Thailand
Micciche lays out challenges

Micciche lays out challenges

At a well-attended joint Soldotna/Kenai Chamber of Commerce meeting last week at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex State Senator Peter Micciche said the coming legislative… Continue reading

Micciche lays out challenges
Parks and Rec bounces into the New Year

Parks and Rec bounces into the New Year

The dawning of the New Year promises fun and frustration for the Peninsula as Mother Nature refuses to cooperate with conducive conditions for traditional winter… Continue reading

Parks and Rec bounces into the New Year
VFW warms the season

VFW warms the season

For the second year local VFW Post # 10046 in Soldotna celebrated the 12 days of Christmas as a way make the season bright for… Continue reading

VFW warms the season

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

Spring semester underway, still time to register

KPC students are back in classes today and enrollment is trending slightly down across the KPC system (compared to the same time last year). Many… Continue reading

Tyonek man arrested after stabbing

A Tyonek man has been arrested and charged after troopers say he stabbed another man in the village. Troopers got a report of the stabbing… Continue reading

  • Jan 10, 2016
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Patricia Paterson, the owner of Lucky Raven Tobacco, displays her illustration of the financials of large and small marijuana businesses at the borough Marijuana Task Force's meeting Thursday. Patterson it will not be possible for marijuana businesses to operate in areas without high foot traffic.

Time winding down on Marijuana Task Force

With less than two months before the state will accept marijuana business applications, the borough’s Marijuana Task Force is still debating whether to set additional… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Patricia Paterson, the owner of Lucky Raven Tobacco, displays her illustration of the financials of large and small marijuana businesses at the borough Marijuana Task Force's meeting Thursday. Patterson it will not be possible for marijuana businesses to operate in areas without high foot traffic.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Boston Subaru, an independent Subaru repair shop in Soldotna, recently moved across the Kenai Spur Highway into its new expanded building.

Boston Subaru transitions into new building, new name

One of Evel Knievel’s cars sits outside the front door of Boston Subaru in Soldotna, and a map of the famous stunt man’s hometown of… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Boston Subaru, an independent Subaru repair shop in Soldotna, recently moved across the Kenai Spur Highway into its new expanded building.

Caribou Hills opened to snow machining

Portions of the Caribou Hills have gotten enough snow to allow for a limited opening to snow machining. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on Friday… Continue reading

  • Jan 9, 2016
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Sitting on stage in an easy chair backed by decorative kayaks, outgoing director of the Kenai Watershed Forum Robert Ruffner plays himself in a skit satirically re-enacting his failed appointment to the state Board of Fisheries during an event held in his honor on Saturday, Jan. 9 at the Triumverate Theatre in Kenai.

Kenai Watershed Forum serves roast of Ruffner

Robert Ruffner finally reached a board of fish on Saturday. After being nominated to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Board of Fisheries in… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Sitting on stage in an easy chair backed by decorative kayaks, outgoing director of the Kenai Watershed Forum Robert Ruffner plays himself in a skit satirically re-enacting his failed appointment to the state Board of Fisheries during an event held in his honor on Saturday, Jan. 9 at the Triumverate Theatre in Kenai.
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Lucretia Carter taught second grade in Kenai and Soldotna for two decades and each year had her students design and give their signatures onto a medium that was later made into a commemorative plate, photographed above Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldonta, Alaska. The entire collection is on display through the end of February.

Library display honors Soldotna teacher

A long-time Soldotna teacher, Lucretia Mae Carter, who passed away on May 20, 2015, is being honored with a display of her own doing at… Continue reading

  • Jan 10, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Lucretia Carter taught second grade in Kenai and Soldotna for two decades and each year had her students design and give their signatures onto a medium that was later made into a commemorative plate, photographed above Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldonta, Alaska. The entire collection is on display through the end of February.
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Fred Sturman and his son Steve Sturman check a pile of dirt for worm cocoons, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, at Circle M Worm Farm of Alaska in Nikiski, Alaska.

Rolling in the dirt

Father and son entrepreneurs Fred and Steve Sturman are getting dirty while hoping to clean up. Since last spring, the two have been transforming a… Continue reading

  • Jan 9, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Fred Sturman and his son Steve Sturman check a pile of dirt for worm cocoons, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, at Circle M Worm Farm of Alaska in Nikiski, Alaska.

Lawmakers pre-file 31 bills

The Alaska Legislature’s preseason has begun with 24 House bills and seven Senate bills released in the first round of prefiled legislation. Prefiling is the… Continue reading

Cancer now No. 1 killer in 22 states, ahead of heart disease

NEW YORK — Cancer is becoming the No. 1 killer in more and more states as deaths from heart disease have declined, new health statistics… Continue reading

Credit downgrade timed on bond sales, continued oil decline

Credit downgrade timed on bond sales, continued oil decline

Standard & Poor’s Jan. 5 downgrade of Alaska’s credit ratings, which caught many state leaders by surprise, was triggered by upcoming bond sales, according to… Continue reading

  • Jan 9, 2016
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER Morris News Service - Alaska
Credit downgrade timed on bond sales, continued oil decline

Soldotna Planning and Zoning seeks to alter landscaping requirements

This story been updated to clarify that the Planning and Zoning Commission started looking at landscaping regulations in January 2015, deciding to amend city code… Continue reading

Alaska Supreme Court upholds local school contribution

JUNEAU — The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday upheld as constitutional a state requirement that local school districts help pay for education, reversing a lower… Continue reading