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Despite colder winter, ‘blob’ may not be gone yet

A more normal winter has helped to dispel a warm water patch in the North Pacific, but it hasn’t disappeared entirely. The warm patch, nicknamed… Continue reading

Donated dresses line the walls of the Soldotna Prep School’s Choir Room, transforming the room into Cinderella’s Closet, a charitable event that offers prom dresses and accessories to high school students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. (Photo courtesy Emanuela Pokryfki/Kenai Peninsula Borough School District)

Cinderella’s Closet gives dresses to KPBSD girls

Kenai Peninsula high school students have the chance to find their own glass slippers thanks to Cinderella’s Closet, a charitable program that hopes to provide… Continue reading

Donated dresses line the walls of the Soldotna Prep School’s Choir Room, transforming the room into Cinderella’s Closet, a charitable event that offers prom dresses and accessories to high school students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. (Photo courtesy Emanuela Pokryfki/Kenai Peninsula Borough School District)

KPC to offer classes to non-native English speakers

A new Career Pathways course geared toward non-native English speakers is being offered at the Kenai River Campus Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College (KPC)… Continue reading

Forthcoming economic strategy takes a look at plan for Alaska

A coalition of state and business leaders is working on a five-year economic strategy for Alaska. The strategy is not the first — individual regional… Continue reading

Tom Redmond distributed candy to parade goers at the Soldotna St. Paddy’s Day Parade on Friday, March 17, 2017 in Soldotna, Alaska. The parade has become a family tradition, with three generations of the Redmond family attending each year. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Soldotna’s pot of gold: Residents turn out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

The Kenai Spur Highway was lined with green at the 26th annual Soldotna St. Patrick’s Day parade. The parade kicked off at 4:30p.m. Friday, when… Continue reading

Tom Redmond distributed candy to parade goers at the Soldotna St. Paddy’s Day Parade on Friday, March 17, 2017 in Soldotna, Alaska. The parade has become a family tradition, with three generations of the Redmond family attending each year. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)
Central Emergency Services responded to a fire at Cad-Re Feeds in Soldotna on Thursday, March 16, 2017 in addition to a second fire that took place on Swanson River Road earlier that evening. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

CES douses two structure fires

Central Emergency Services responded to two structure fires Thursday night, one at Cad-Re Feed in Soldotna and the other on Swanson River Road in Sterling,… Continue reading

Central Emergency Services responded to a fire at Cad-Re Feeds in Soldotna on Thursday, March 16, 2017 in addition to a second fire that took place on Swanson River Road earlier that evening. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Refuge notebook: March Madness – Alaska style

As many eyes turn to their television sets this week to watch the 7-10 match up between the Gamecocks and the Golden Eagles or the… Continue reading

Judge denies assembly member’s request for expedited hearing in complaint against borough

An Alaska Superior Court judge has denied a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member’s request for an expedited hearing to block the borough from blocking him… Continue reading

After Board of Fish, few changes to conflict between drifters, northern sport fishermen

The Board of Fisheries wrapped up its Upper Cook Inlet meeting in Anchorage with few changes for the inlet’s commercial drift gillnet fleet, with small… Continue reading

Brenner Furlong presents a check for $1,000 to Boys & Girls Club president Tim Redder.

A champion on and off the field

Soldotna High School junior Brenner Furlong has proven himself to be an amazing athlete as a running back for the SoHi Stars, being named the… Continue reading

Brenner Furlong presents a check for $1,000 to Boys & Girls Club president Tim Redder.
A precision ring saw cutting at Standerfer Stoneworks makes any cut possible.

Standerfer Stoneworks for rock solid service, creativity

Dave and Audrey Standerfer agree with the Nobel Prize winning poet Boy Dylan that “everybody must get stoned” — as in granite and quartz that… Continue reading

A precision ring saw cutting at Standerfer Stoneworks makes any cut possible.
Kindergarten students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science acted out a scene from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Thursday, March 9, 2017 as the culmination of Artist In Residence Elizabeth Ware’s work with the students. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Kaleidoscope students channel the Bard

All the world’s a stage, and on Thursday afternoon, the students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science were the players. After two weeks with… Continue reading

Kindergarten students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science acted out a scene from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Thursday, March 9, 2017 as the culmination of Artist In Residence Elizabeth Ware’s work with the students. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)
Ice Fishing Derby kid’s division winners claim prizes at awards ceremony, including 8-month-old Ariel Voight, the Derby’s youngest participant.

Ice Fishing Derby records first Royal Flush, youngest participant

There have been two decades of family ice fishing memories on the Kenai Peninsula thanks to the family-owned Soldotna Trustworthy Hardware &Fishing. And as the… Continue reading

Ice Fishing Derby kid’s division winners claim prizes at awards ceremony, including 8-month-old Ariel Voight, the Derby’s youngest participant.
Stephen Stringham talks to a small group of people about bear safety techniques during a presentation Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska.

Biologist shares dos and don’ts of bear encounters

Ever wonder what a grizzly is thinking when it wanders into a back yard, or comes face to face with a hiker somewhere in Alaska’s… Continue reading

Stephen Stringham talks to a small group of people about bear safety techniques during a presentation Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska.
In this May 2016 photo, harvested eulachon float in a personal use fisherman’s bucket on the north bank of the Kenai River in Kenai, Alaska. Eulachon, also called hooligan, are a type of smelt that returns in schools to rivers all over Southcentral Alaska each spring. The state Board of Fisheries recently approved a measure doubling the quota a small comercial fishery in Upper Cook Inlet takes from 100 tons to 200 tons each year, a small fraction of the total estimated biomass of about 48,000 tons, according to a Feb. 9 memo from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

Board of Fisheries doubles commercial smelt quota

Every spring, a few commercial fishermen jump out of their boats and net for eulachon by hand in the lower Susitna River. Eulachon, a type… Continue reading

In this May 2016 photo, harvested eulachon float in a personal use fisherman’s bucket on the north bank of the Kenai River in Kenai, Alaska. Eulachon, also called hooligan, are a type of smelt that returns in schools to rivers all over Southcentral Alaska each spring. The state Board of Fisheries recently approved a measure doubling the quota a small comercial fishery in Upper Cook Inlet takes from 100 tons to 200 tons each year, a small fraction of the total estimated biomass of about 48,000 tons, according to a Feb. 9 memo from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

Connections student invited to STEM congress

A Funny River Connections home-school student will travel to Massachusetts this summer as an Alaska delegate to the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.… Continue reading

Assembly member files complaint against borough

A Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member is challenging a clause included in a legal nonprofit’s contract to defend the borough in an ongoing lawsuit over… Continue reading

Program certifies green tourism businesses

Tourism businesses in Alaska are getting certified for green practices, both as a way to move toward sustainability and a way to attract customers. The… Continue reading

Path forward after Kodiak sockeye genetic study unclear

A revelation that a large portion of sockeye harvested by Kodiak commercial seine fishermen originate in Cook Inlet may change the way the fisheries are… Continue reading

Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet wait to be set to the a processor on July 11, 2016 near Kenai. On Tuesday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries discussed proposals for Northern District setnetters. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

No change for northern district setnets

Despite a suite of requests for both further restriction or liberalization of the commercial set gillnet fishery in the northern district of Upper Cook Inlet,… Continue reading

Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet wait to be set to the a processor on July 11, 2016 near Kenai. On Tuesday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries discussed proposals for Northern District setnetters. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)