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HEA directors look at regulated future

Editor's note: This story has been updated to add the amount HEA spent on the deregulation campaign.  After Homer Electric Association failed to deregulate, with… Continue reading

This image released by STX Entertainment and EuropaCorp shows Emma Watson in a scene from “The Circle.” (AP)

Reeling it in: ‘The Circle’ spins too fast

This week’s big release had just about everything going for it. As far as grown-up thrillers go, how could you ask for more than Tom… Continue reading

This image released by STX Entertainment and EuropaCorp shows Emma Watson in a scene from “The Circle.” (AP)

Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Let’s talk

Seems like everyday I read something about what the “younger generation” doesn’t know. I’ve adapted to the idea that no one can fold a diaper… Continue reading

Linguist James Kari, who worked with Dena’ina speaker Peter Kalifornsky on preserving the vanishing Dena’ina language in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, speaks at a Kenai Peninsula History Conference panel on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Kenai Peninsula College near Soldotna, Alaska. Kari presented his work at both last week’s history conference and the one that preceded it in 1974. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai Peninsula Historical Conference sheds light on Russian, Native history

Like the history it examined, the weekend’s history conference at Kenai Peninsula College was many things to many people. For Michael Skinner, who gives summer… Continue reading

Linguist James Kari, who worked with Dena’ina speaker Peter Kalifornsky on preserving the vanishing Dena’ina language in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, speaks at a Kenai Peninsula History Conference panel on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Kenai Peninsula College near Soldotna, Alaska. Kari presented his work at both last week’s history conference and the one that preceded it in 1974. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Bill looks to fund education with raffle

The Alaska Senate is recruiting lady luck to help fund education with a raffle that residents can enter using their Permanent Fund Dividends. Senate Bill… Continue reading

HEA seeks to recoup costs for Bradley Lake power transmission

Homer Electric Association is requesting a temporary 3.25 percent rate increase, effective in February, to recover what it says is a significant loss from transmitting… Continue reading

Pipeline rate settlement helps decrease HEA bills

Edit: This story has been updated with additional information on Kenai Beluga Pipeline's 2015 traffic. A settlement in February over the cost of delivering fuel… Continue reading

Op-ed: Wiki-flood

Most Americans, I suspect, have the attitude that if the government is spying on someone there is probably a good reason. In the latest document… Continue reading

  • Mar 11, 2017
  • By Cal Thomas

Boys & Girls Clubs expand their mentoring programs

The Boys &Girls Clubs of the Kenai Peninsula have received two federal grants from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs to implement… Continue reading

  • Mar 4, 2017
  • By KAT SORENSEN
Les Palmer

An Outdoor View: Dippers

Editor’s note: This column previously appeared in the Clarion on Dec. 27, 2002.   The other day, I got to thinking about the birds that… Continue reading

Les Palmer
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion In this May 3, 2016 file photo, outgoing Kenai City Manager Rick Koch speaks at the Soldotna Sports Complex in Soldotna. On December 31 Koch will officially leave the post of Kenai City Manager, which he's held since February 2006, to be replaced by Paul Ostrander.

Changing of the guard: 2017 brings new city manager to Kenai

Like that ubiquitous cartoon of the grizzled old year shuffling away as the fresh-faced infant of the new year arrives, Kenai city manager Rick Koch… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion In this May 3, 2016 file photo, outgoing Kenai City Manager Rick Koch speaks at the Soldotna Sports Complex in Soldotna. On December 31 Koch will officially leave the post of Kenai City Manager, which he's held since February 2006, to be replaced by Paul Ostrander.
ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY DEC. 24, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Dec. 13, 2016 photo, Pioneers Home resident Joe Nistler, 90, reacts to a virtual reality video of a herd of elephants walking while Lincoln Markham, right, watches in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lincoln Markham and Dan Markham are the father-son duo behind the extremely popular What's Inside YouTube channel. (Matt Buxton/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

Father-son YouTubers share virtual reality with seniors

FAIRBANKS (AP) — With a chilly Fairbanks morning framed in the rec room window, seniors at the Pioneers’ Home took turns taking a trip to… Continue reading

  • Dec 25, 2016
  • By Matt Buxton
ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY DEC. 24, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Dec. 13, 2016 photo, Pioneers Home resident Joe Nistler, 90, reacts to a virtual reality video of a herd of elephants walking while Lincoln Markham, right, watches in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lincoln Markham and Dan Markham are the father-son duo behind the extremely popular What's Inside YouTube channel. (Matt Buxton/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

Op-ed: Faking the news

Mainstream media are suddenly concerned about “fake news.” It used to be that phony stories were easy to spot. They usually focused on space aliens… Continue reading

  • Dec 17, 2016
  • By Cal Thomas

School News for Dec. 12

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

The Sm'algyax Language Learners group sings a Christmas carol in Sm'algyax, the language of the Tsimshian people, on the one-year anniversary celebration of the group's beginning. Standing is Nancy Barnes, one of the group's organizers.

Sm’algyax group celebrates year

A year ago this time, the students in the Sm’algyax Language Learners group in Juneau were reviewing vocabulary in the language of the Tsimshian people.… Continue reading

  • Dec 5, 2016
  • By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN
  • Schools
The Sm'algyax Language Learners group sings a Christmas carol in Sm'algyax, the language of the Tsimshian people, on the one-year anniversary celebration of the group's beginning. Standing is Nancy Barnes, one of the group's organizers.

School News for Dec. 5

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

School News for Nov. 28

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

Kenai Peninsula Board of Education approves employee contracts

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education approved agreements with its employee associations at its Monday meeting, finishing the approximately 18-month long negotiation between the… Continue reading

Fake ‘trooper’ scamming peninsula residents

Alaska State Troopers are warning Kenai Peninsula residents to be aware of a scam in which a caller pretends to be a trooper.Recently, a number… Continue reading

School briefs

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

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