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Hockey roundup: Kenai gets 1st win, SoHi shines

Hockey roundup: Kenai gets 1st win, SoHi shines

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com The Kenai Kardinals earned their first victory of the 2018-19 season Saturday afternoon. Nate Beiser scored twice to lift Kenai to… Continue reading

Hockey roundup: Kenai gets 1st win, SoHi shines

Recycling Bin: Sustainability begins at home

Sustainability begins at home Sustainability is a balancing act, maintaining an environment where human settlements and the natural world flourish together. We all make a… Continue reading

Learning for Life: Pieces of a Puzzle

Learning for Life: Pieces of a Puzzle

Pieces of a Puzzle Did you make a New Year’s Resolution? Nearly half of all Americans make a resolution each year; with weight loss and… Continue reading

Learning for Life: Pieces of a Puzzle
Students compete in VFW’s Voice of Democracy

Students compete in VFW’s Voice of Democracy

VFW Post Commander John Walker, Rory Gilmartin, Carlee Rizzo, Jackson Klein, Coy Babcock and VFW Auxiliary President Dave Carey On Tuesday evening Jan. 8, the… Continue reading

Students compete in VFW’s Voice of Democracy
Control of Alaska House unsettled ahead of session start

Control of Alaska House unsettled ahead of session start

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The big question heading into the new legislative session Tuesday is: Who will control the Alaska House? Republicans will hold 23… Continue reading

Control of Alaska House unsettled ahead of session start
This Nov. 1, 2018, file photo shows the Hope Center women’s shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge in Alaska will hear arguments Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, in a lawsuit filed by the faith-based shelter against the city over a requirement that it accept transgender women. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm, is seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the city from applying its gender identity law to the Hope Center shelter. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen,File)

Faith-based shelter fights to keep out transgender women

ANCHORAGE — A conservative Christian law firm that has pushed religious issues in multiple states urged a U.S. judge on Friday to block Alaska’s largest… Continue reading

This Nov. 1, 2018, file photo shows the Hope Center women’s shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge in Alaska will hear arguments Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, in a lawsuit filed by the faith-based shelter against the city over a requirement that it accept transgender women. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm, is seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the city from applying its gender identity law to the Hope Center shelter. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen,File)
Pre-filed bills tackle Alaska’s sexual assault problem

Pre-filed bills tackle Alaska’s sexual assault problem

More than a third of Alaska women have experienced sexual assault.

Pre-filed bills tackle Alaska’s sexual assault problem
Gavel and scales

Kenai man convicted of threatening Superior Court Judge: ‘I’m going to kill her family’

A Kenai man has been convicted of threatening to kill an Alaska Superior Court Judge, according a release sent Thursday from U.S. Attorney Brian D.… Continue reading

Gavel and scales
Tangled up in blue: Squeaky boards

Tangled up in blue: Squeaky boards

By KAT SORENSEN There are a few squeaky floorboards in Resurrect Art Coffee House. The old church was built in 1916, though, so it’s to… Continue reading

Tangled up in blue: Squeaky boards

Anchorage couple indicted on charges of robbing, assaulting cab drivers

Two people were indicted last week for allegedly assaulting and robbing two Anchorage-area cab drivers last year. Hector Rivera, 21, and Shirley Borrero-Qinones, 21, were… Continue reading

Aleea Faulkner, 12, shares socks with mom Wausaumoutouikwe Sandman-Shelifoe on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, during Project Homeless Connect at the Soldotna Sports Complex. Faulkner spearheaded a sock drive to support the annual community service event. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Project Homeless Connect will offer services at eighth annual event

Aleea Faulkner, 12, shares socks with mom Wausaumoutouikwe Sandman-Shelifoe on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, during Project Homeless Connect at the Soldotna Sports Complex. Faulkner spearheaded a sock drive to support the annual community service event. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)
Soldotna postpones vote on school zone cellphone ban

Soldotna postpones vote on school zone cellphone ban

Soldotna City Council has postponed voting on an ordinance that would to prohibit the use of hand-held electronic devices, like cellphones, while driving in school… Continue reading

Soldotna postpones vote on school zone cellphone ban
Brantley III scores in OT to lead SoHi hockey past Palmer

Brantley III scores in OT to lead SoHi hockey past Palmer

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com PALMER — Soldotna and Palmer were ready to play eight minutes of extra hockey. But thanks to Galen Brantley III, the… Continue reading

Brantley III scores in OT to lead SoHi hockey past Palmer
Now Playing: Solid writing and offscreen terror bring depth to ‘Bird Box’

Now Playing: Solid writing and offscreen terror bring depth to ‘Bird Box’

Does anyone remember “The Happening” from way back in 2008? No? Well, you should. “The Happening” should be forever commemorated as what happens when M.… Continue reading

Now Playing: Solid writing and offscreen terror bring depth to ‘Bird Box’
Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, and Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, listen during a House Resource Committee hearing at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017.

Pre-filed bill would require rape kit testing within six months

On Monday, Alaska House Rep. Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) pre-filed public safety legislation that would require the timely testing of sexual assault/rape kits in Alaska. HB… Continue reading

Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, and Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, listen during a House Resource Committee hearing at the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A commercial crabbing boat capsized in rough waters off the Oregon coast, killing the three men aboard and sending a shock wave… Continue reading

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to members of the media before welcoming Juneau residents to the Governor’s Open House on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to members of the media before welcoming Juneau residents to the Governor’s Open House on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Chelsea Hart, who was born and raised in Kenai and has been performing comedy and opera across Europe for the past four years, is pictured in this undated photo. (Photo by Zowwi Ranford/Courtesy of Chelsea Hart)

Kenai local Chelsea Hart returns home to teach comedy writing workshop for Kenai Performers

Globetrotting comedienne and entertainer Chelsea Hart has returned to her hometown of Kenai to offer a comedy writing workshop with the Kenai Performers today. Hart… Continue reading

Chelsea Hart, who was born and raised in Kenai and has been performing comedy and opera across Europe for the past four years, is pictured in this undated photo. (Photo by Zowwi Ranford/Courtesy of Chelsea Hart)
Minister’s Message: The wisdom of reading the Bible

Minister’s Message: The wisdom of reading the Bible

Who among us readers hasn’t been caught using a word we didn’t know the meaning of? We might use a word that sounds right but… Continue reading

Minister’s Message: The wisdom of reading the Bible

Cal Thomas: What’s the point of a carbon tax rebate?

DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish government is proposing rebates to a carbon tax it recently imposed to households that comply with what it considers “low-carbon… Continue reading