Neil Strausbaugh and his brother wore chest waders and walked midstream of a small creek looking for a big brown bear near Sterling in late September.

“It was an odd way to hunt,” he said.

Moving through dense brush and up a creek choked with spawning silver salmon, two miles of underbrush, huge tracks and plenty of bear sign passed slowly by before they crossed the animal they were after — a half-ton bear 12 yards away standing with its giant head tilted skyward more than 10 feet up and sniffing at the wind.

You can see the singer and songwriter on each of them — its evidence of where their songs come from.

Sitting side-by-side, each man has a guitar on his lap as the only visual consistency among the songwriters gathered at a local deli for an evening of talk about songwriting as a process and as a passion.

At one end with a gravely and slightly worn voice is Robb Justice spinning happy sarcasm into lyrics about life and death and beer and love.

The tax break offered in Kenai Peninsula Borough Proposition 1 went over big with the voters who turned out for Tuesday’s election and assembly term limits won a fourth consecutive voter approval in 20 years — with the largest margin yet — 71 percent favoring continued term limits with Proposition 3A.

The citizen-sponsored law seeking to lower property taxes by hundreds of dollars annually passed with 64 percent support.

It’ll be Oct. 7 before Central Peninsula Hospital has brokers assisting some of the thousands of community’s uninsured adults and children with health insurance enrollment.

From a hub in the medical center, brokers from Enroll Alaska, a private company, will work with people looking for help enrolling in insurance plans now required by Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”

Aside from enrollment help at CPH, people can begin signing up for insurance online as soon as Tuesday.