4 SoHi players to join college programs

A 2020 Soldotna High graduate class that was a key part of three Division II state titles and a 28-1 record will send four on… Continue reading

• May 30, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak

Tangled Up in Blue: Blunt cuts

I cut my own hair last night. After months of new coronavirus isolation and then a few too many, “Oh wow, Kat! Your hair is… Continue reading

• May 28, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationTangled up in Blue

Refuge Notebook: The roles of morels

While people have been taking advantage of the abundance of morels following last year’s Swan Lake Fire, I have been asked many questions about them.… Continue reading

• May 28, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationRefuge Notebook

Area fishing guides hit hard by pandemic

“If the quarantine doesn’t come off pretty soon, I think we’ll just be out of luck this year.”

• May 27, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak
• CoronavirusFishingKenai Peninsula

Tri-The-Kenai may be gone for good

The 10th running of the event this year would have been June 14.

• May 26, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak
• Coronavirus

Klaiches step away from Nikolaevsk basketball

Steve Klaich is retiring after teaching in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District for 32 years.

• May 23, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak
• Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

Peninsula will have high school summer baseball

There will be high school baseball this summer. Only it will have nothing to do with American Legion, and the team won’t be called the… Continue reading

• May 23, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak

Out of the Office: Morels surge confidence

I’m writing this in the car on the drive to Anchorage. My boyfriend, Nate, and I are in the process of moving back to the… Continue reading

• May 21, 2020
• by Victoria Petersen
• Out of the OfficeOutdoors and Recreation

Refuge Notebook: Spruce beetles 2020

Spruce beetles are at it again. I am sad to see large trees in Soldotna with patches of missing bark that indicate woodpeckers are finding… Continue reading

• May 21, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationRefuge Notebook

Soldotna’s Tuisaula to play hoops at UAF

By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion Soldotna graduate Ituau Tuisaula loves basketball so much that she played 11 games her sophomore season on a right knee… Continue reading

• May 19, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak

Brown Bears get ready for season

The Kenai River Brown Bears are planning for the 2020-21 North American Hockey League season to be normal. The planning for that season, however, has… Continue reading

• May 16, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak

Tangled Up in Blue: In the long run

Someone asked me if time has been going by quickly or slowly these days. During the coronavirus pandemic, are my mornings flying by? And in… Continue reading

• May 14, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationTangled up in Blue

Refuge Notebook: One person’s trash is another’s artifact

Archaeology. OK, what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read that word? I hope it wasn’t Indiana Jones, or dinosaurs!… Continue reading

• May 14, 2020
• Refuge Notebook

Kenai Central’s Verkuilen to play soccer at Earlham College

Kenai Central senior Travis Verkuilen committed Monday to play soccer at Division III Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Verkuilen, son of Dan and Cherrie Verkuilen,… Continue reading

• May 7, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak

Out of the office: Summer arrives

What was I doing? I asked myself that as a struggled frantically to wiggle my telemark boots into the bindings and continue down the miners… Continue reading

• May 7, 2020
• by Jeff Helminiak
• Out of the OfficeOutdoors and Recreation

Refuge Notebook: Learning to love the ‘sweat and shiver’ diet

Have you ever spent a weekend camping, maybe a long weekend, when the rain never seemed to quit? Where on the last day, all you… Continue reading

• May 7, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationRefuge Notebook

Tangled Up in Blue: AM/FM

I woke up to the sound of a stranger crying and decided to go directly back to bed. It was a pang of depressing abnormality… Continue reading

• Apr 30, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationTangled up in Blue

Refuge Notebook: Forest morels: Year after fire brings rewards

2019 will be synonymous with wildland fire for most of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula, and as the details of date and time fade… Continue reading

• Apr 30, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationRefuge Notebook

Refuge Notebook: Recreational safety after the Swan Lake Fire

Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are all too familiar with wildfire after the summer of 2019. Not only did the Swan Lake Fire burn for… Continue reading

• Apr 23, 2020
• Outdoors and RecreationRefuge Notebook

Out of the office: Painted blue

I went to Homer a few weeks ago to find blue. For weeks I had wanted to paint nothing but blues and purples, but I… Continue reading

• Apr 23, 2020
• by Erin Thompson
• Out of the OfficeOutdoors and Recreation

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