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Taz, a 9-year-old half-Great Pyrenees, half-bull mastiff, gets some love from inmate Ernest Rogers on June 28 at the Wildwood Correctional Complex in Kenai, Alaska. Taz calls the prison home after being adopted as part of the SPOT (Shelter Pet Obedience Training). (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Prisoners get a new leash on life: Inmates and dogs forge friendships through SPOT program

They may be in prison, but some of Wildwood Correctional Complex inmates aren’t exactly doing hard time. For…

Sterling judo athletes win US Jr. Olympics medals

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Sterling judo athletes win US Jr. Olympics medals

Five Kenai Peninsula athletes representing the Sterling Judo Club load up on the medal at the prestigious U.…

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Monthly musings: July

Enjoy the full blooming of fireweed while basking in the midnight sun. Let the dog days of summer…

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Monthly musings: July

Enjoy the full blooming of fireweed while basking in the midnight sun.

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Mayor’s vetoes on school, tourism funding stand

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council will have to live with…

Sterling judo athletes win US Jr. Olympics medals

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Sterling judo athletes win US Jr. Olympics medals

Five Kenai Peninsula athletes representing the Sterling Judo Club load up on the medal at the prestigious U.…

Seagulls flock to where participants in the personal use dipnet fishery fish on the north beach of the Kenai River on July 10, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

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Dipnet season begins Tuesday. Here’s some things to know.

Tuesday marks the beginning of the busiest part of the visitor season in Kenai — the personal-use dipnet…

As part of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s July cultural heritage series, Sam Schimmel demonstrates how to cut ivory on Friday, July 6, at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center, near Soldotna, Alaska. Schimmel used the chunk of ivory to carve a small owl figurine. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai National Wildlife Refuge hosts cultural heritage workshops

Traditional beadwork, storytelling, fish processing and a tutorial on how to harvest local plants are just some of…

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Mariner drowns in Cook Inlet; body brought to Homer Harbor

A Kenai man died at sea Thursday after falling overboard from a commercial fishing boat this morning north…

Darrell Aleckson’s restored Plymouth Barracuda, a classic 1960s car, sits in a parking lot alongside other restored classic cars at a Kaknu Kruzers’ car show at Autozone on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Kaknu Kruzers, a local club composed of members who restore classic cars, will participate in a number of parades and shows this summer, including Soldotna’s Progress Days parade on July 28. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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Local car club all about the classics

Driving around Alaska, it’s often easy to spot yards or by-ways littered with junk vehicles. But one man’s…

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Road construction getting out of the way for fishing season

As RVers, dipnetters, anglers, and other recreationalists prepare to drive to the Kenai Peninsula for the peak of…

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Mariner drowns in Cook Inlet; body brought to Homer Harbor

A Kenai man died at sea Thursday after falling overboard from a commercial fishing boat this morning north…

Jim McEwen steps into the classic car he restored at Autozone on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Soldotna, Alaska. McEwen is a member of the Kaknu Kruzers, a local club composed of members who restore classic cars. The club has a number of events and rives throughou the summe, including the upoming car show at the Soldotna Progress Days parade on July 28. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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Local car club all about the classics

Driving around Alaska, it’s often easy to spot yards or by-ways littered with junk vehicles. But one man’s…

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App aims to be central fish information location

Whatever anglers want to know about fishing in Alaska, Jim Voss wants them to find it via smartphone…

This photo shows a Kenai River king salmon returning to the water after being released. (Photo courtesy Scott Miller)

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Fishing report: King fishing returns on lower Kenai, sockeye salmon hot at the Russian

With a holiday smack dab in the middle of the week, warm temperatures and sun predicted through Saturday…

Out of class, but not off duty: Local teachers come together to make music

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Out of class, but not off duty: Local teachers come together to make music

For the members of the band Recess Duty, teaching music all day just wasn’t enough. “We decided we…

An Anchor River king salmon lies on the bank Saturday, May 19, 2018 in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

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King restrictions increase tensions among users

With king salmon runs weak so far and fishing season in full swing, barbs are again flying as…

Kenai’s American Legion Post 20 drives their truck remodeled as a steam locomotive during Kenai’s Fourth of July parade on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in Kenai, Alaska. Aboard are members of the Legion-sponsored Twins baseball team. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)                                  Snare drummers from Kenai Central High School’s drumline perform in the Kenai’s Fourth of July parade on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)                                 Wildland firefighters from the Alaska Division of Forestry march in Kenai’s Fourth of July parade on Wednesday, July 4 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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True to the Red, White and Blue

By Ben Boettger

Out of class, but not off duty: Local teachers come together to make music

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Out of class, but not off duty: Local teachers come together to make music

For the members of the band Recess Duty, teaching music all day just wasn’t enough.

Wild chamomile hangs to dry inside the Ionia Community Center on Tuesday, July 3, near Kasilof, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ionia: Born and bound by food

On Tuesday at noon, the lunch bell rings in Ionia, a health-conscious community near Kasilof. Over 50 servings…