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Teresa Reger (left, with sign) and Susie Stafford wave to passing cars at the annual demonstration in support of disability services by the Key Coalition advocacy group, held this year on Friday in Soldotna. Reger and Stafford are both parents of disabled adult children who receive services through the program the Key Campaign seeks to preserve. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

‘Integration and independence’: Activists raise awareness for programs for people with disabilities

For 30 years the disability services activists of Alaska’s Key Campaign have been holding annual statewide demonstrations in towns like Soldotna — where demonstrators gathered… Continue reading

Teresa Reger (left, with sign) and Susie Stafford wave to passing cars at the annual demonstration in support of disability services by the Key Coalition advocacy group, held this year on Friday in Soldotna. Reger and Stafford are both parents of disabled adult children who receive services through the program the Key Campaign seeks to preserve. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

DEC: Hilcorp must sample and monitor underwater gas leak

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is requiring Hilcorp Energy Company to begin sampling and environmental monitoring of its damaged underwater natural gas pipeline, which… Continue reading

Ice could delay Hilcorp leak response until late March

Hilcorp’s plan to send divers to repair a damaged underwater gas pipeline — which is leaking between 210,000 and 310,000 cubic feet of methane a… Continue reading

Rare disease sufferer to hold awareness event

If you’ve never heard of stiff person syndrome, you’re far from alone. The neurological disorder — characterized by progressively stiffening muscles and intermittent, painful spasms… Continue reading

Project SEARCH interns work behind the scenes at hospital

Six Kenai Peninsula Borough School District students and graduates who spent part of this year working at Central Peninsula Hospital — folding linens, stocking and… Continue reading

Three seek assembly appointment to replace Homdahl

The eastern Kenai Peninsula will have a new representative on the nine-member Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly after assembly members choose from three applicants to replace… Continue reading

This graph uses calculations based on a Feb. 6 Kenai Peninsula Borough School District budget presentation to show where the school district has made its $8.55 million in budget cuts since fiscal 2015. (Graphic by Vincent Nusunginya/Peninsula Clarion)

School budget cuts could affect custodians, others

A rough sketch of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s budget for the coming year includes $2.48 million in cuts that administrators are recommending to… Continue reading

This graph uses calculations based on a Feb. 6 Kenai Peninsula Borough School District budget presentation to show where the school district has made its $8.55 million in budget cuts since fiscal 2015. (Graphic by Vincent Nusunginya/Peninsula Clarion)
Marlene Lewis (left) sketches model Robert Dederick during a charcoal figuring-drawing class on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska. The class is the latest in a series of community art classes lead by artist and Kenai librarian James Adcox.

Prominent figures

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Marlene Lewis (left) sketches model Robert Dederick during a charcoal figuring-drawing class on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 at the Kenai Community Library in Kenai, Alaska. The class is the latest in a series of community art classes lead by artist and Kenai librarian James Adcox.

HEA Director’s election open for candidates

Editor's note: this story has been updated to include the fact that HEA Board of Directors President Dick Waisanen  and member Jim Levine will run… Continue reading

Photographer observes Bristol Bay

Photographer observes Bristol Bay

During photographer Carl Johnson’s trips to document subsistence life in the river-laced Bristol Bay region west of Cook Inlet, he said the subject of wealth… Continue reading

Photographer observes Bristol Bay

Kenai to examine fund balance

Kenai City Council members and administrators will discuss plans to set upper and lower limits for the city’s savings. At its Feb. 15 meeting, the… Continue reading

Kenai rearranges funding to prepare for new budget

Kenai got a head start on its upcoming budget by rearranging its funds via an ordinance that moves $124,303 budgeted this year for planned projects… Continue reading

Retired paramedic Teresa Gray presents images from her aid work in refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos to Kenai Central High School juniors and seniors on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Bringing the world home

Like many, retired paramedic and Anchorage resident Teresa Gray had experienced the Syrian refugee crisis through casual news consumption. “I didn’t know the scope and… Continue reading

Retired paramedic Teresa Gray presents images from her aid work in refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos to Kenai Central High School juniors and seniors on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

School district plans changes to English language learners program

Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct the titles of Board of Education Vice-President Penny Vadla and Board of Education Clerk Bill Holt.… Continue reading

Airport rule may require federal permitting of private construction in Kenai

A Federal Aviation Administration rule for construction on airports may apply to Kenai businesses beyond the physical bounds of the Kenai Municipal Airport itself. An… Continue reading

Jeff Warton samples three flavors of bagel spread at the grand opening of the Kenai location of Everything Bagels on Tuesday, Jan. 31,2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The grand opening comes 13 days after the Kenai shop had its soft opening on Jan. 18, seven months after Everything Bagels opened its first location in Soldotna on July 15, 2016, and on the one-year anniversary of co-owners Matt and Pamela Parker (with Brooke and John Campbell) making their first batch of bagels in their home kitchen, Pamela Parker said. "We came from Florida, where all the New Yorkers go to retire, so there's tons of delicious bagels there," she said. "We wanted to bring that up here." (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Time to make the bagels

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Jeff Warton samples three flavors of bagel spread at the grand opening of the Kenai location of Everything Bagels on Tuesday, Jan. 31,2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The grand opening comes 13 days after the Kenai shop had its soft opening on Jan. 18, seven months after Everything Bagels opened its first location in Soldotna on July 15, 2016, and on the one-year anniversary of co-owners Matt and Pamela Parker (with Brooke and John Campbell) making their first batch of bagels in their home kitchen, Pamela Parker said. "We came from Florida, where all the New Yorkers go to retire, so there's tons of delicious bagels there," she said. "We wanted to bring that up here." (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

DOT plans work to repair 2012 flood effects

This summer the Alaska Department of Transportation will be repairing and replacing culverts and lining shorelines with rock at four sites on the Kenai Peninsula… Continue reading

AOGCC offers alternate proposal for fracking permit comments

After hearing a request to make hydraulic fracturing permits subject to public hearings and comment, the state oil and gas regulatory oversight group Alaska Oil… Continue reading

AOGCC to hold hearing on fracking notice proposal

Alaska’s oil and gas regulatory oversight body, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, is required to make public the locations, depth and operating data… Continue reading

Diverse local reactions to Trump presidency

After President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, politically active Kenai Peninsula residents still have varying perspectives on what his… Continue reading