An African American Harvard Law School graduate who chose a career in criminal justice rather than a high-paying office job. A Philadelphia-based massage therapist who takes a day each week to massage the feet of women involved in the city's sex trade. Both are examples of generosity Christian author and activist Shane Claiborne used when he relayed before Soldotna churchgoers Sunday.

"It's not whether you're going to be a teacher, a doctor or a massage therapist," he said, "but what kind of teacher, doctor or massage therapist you choose to be."

Brendan McGee was murdered less than a day after he saw his mother for the last time. Carolyn McGee came to deliver good news to her 23-year-old son, but they ended up arguing -- something that occurred a lot during Brendan's short-lived formative years.

She traveled to Brendan's new Soldotna home and told her son he could still pay off his student loans. He only had to pay $3,000. 

Oil and other resource representatives, local politicians and a few Kenai Peninsula residents testified Monday at the first of 10 hearings on a ballot initiative that would re-establish a coastal zone management program in Alaska.

A wooden warehouse erected nearly a century ago is being deconstructed due to multiple constraints that stifled its use.

The 40,000-square-foot Columbia Wards Fisheries warehouse located at Kenai Landing has sat empty for the past two years. Building codes, available funds and an inability to attract enough visitors prompted the facility's demise.

Steve Agni, Kenai Landing Inc.'s deconstruction project manager, worked for seven years attempting to use the former cannery warehouse as an indoor marketplace, but current economics limited his efforts.