Letters to the Editor

Backers of initiative to ban set-netting misleading public

These must be exciting times for the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance. If their campaign is successful, they will use Alaska voters to try to end… Continue reading

  • May 4, 2015
  • By Bob Correia

Legislature should expand Medicaid

Dear Alaska Legisture: stop the madness! This letter is geared towards the Majority, not the Minority. Enough! Fund education fully, cut the tax breaks for… Continue reading

  • May 5, 2015
  • By Michele Vasquez

Fred Meyer donations support cancer patients

Central Peninsula Health Foundation would like to thank Soldotna Fred Meyer customers and associates for donating $3,139.92 in support of local patients. The Soldotna Fred… Continue reading

  • May 5, 2015
  • By Kathy Gensel

Sportfishing group drives wedge into community

Dwight (Kramer, Peninsula Clarion, April 24) got it right. Regarding Ricky Gease’s op-ed (Peninsula Clarion, April 27), equal and fair is very misunderstood in this… Continue reading

  • Apr 30, 2015
  • By John McCombs

Support makes for successful game warden camp

This past weekend, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge hosted the 2015 Youth Game Warden camp. Forty 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-graders met and learned about the… Continue reading

  • May 1, 2015
  • By Kelly Modla

Soldotna seniors appreciate new dining room ceiling

Soldotna Senior Center would like to thank Tesoro and their great team of volunteers that worked tirelessly in repairing and painting the Center’s dining room,… Continue reading

  • May 1, 2015
  • By George W. Parks

Kenai Peninsula foundation assists food bank

Have you noticed the building at the corner of Community College Drive and K-Beach Road recently? The Kenai Peninsula Foundation made a difference in an… Continue reading

  • Apr 23, 2015
  • By Linda Swarner

Efforts made ‘Ever After’ prom memorable

On behalf of the Soldotna High School Class of 2016, we would like to thank the following businesses, and people for their donations, and help… Continue reading

  • Apr 24, 2015
  • By Megan Murphy

Results in Juneau leave reader dissatisfied

Are you satisfied with the budget our lawmakers have concocted in response to the precipitous drop in oil revenue? Do you think that it was… Continue reading

  • Apr 21, 2015
  • By Eric Treider

Action on fish board candidate disheartening

It is so disheartening to see the well qualified candidate for board of fish, Robert Ruffner, turned down by the legislature. I hope that voters… Continue reading

  • Apr 22, 2015
  • By Bud Crawford

Ruffner deserves support for fish board

I am writing to strongly urge the legislature to confirm Robert Ruffner for the Board of Fish. As director of the Kenai Watershed Forum he… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2015
  • By Bud Crawford

State offices should have toll-free access

Having chosen Kenai as my home of record and purchasing a home here, I recently discovered that State offices refuse to provide toll free numbers… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2015
  • By Cynthia Jones

Climate change conference participation appreciated

The League of Women Voters would like to thank the 150-plus participants in our “Climate Change in Our Backyard” conference. We had amazing presentations from… Continue reading

  • Apr 16, 2015
  • By Gail Knobf

Never too late to quit tobacco

When I was 17 years old and a freshman in college, I smoked my first cigarette with my new roommate. It was a Salem Light… Continue reading

  • Apr 13, 2015
  • By Jenny Olendorff

Support for fundraiser appreciated

Our gratitude to everybody that made the recent Bridges/Rick Winter ALS fund drive a success: Charlie and Christine David and the CH2MHill Fire and Gas… Continue reading

  • Apr 14, 2015
  • By Rick Winter

Boy Scout leaders recognized

Recently the Tustumena District, Great Alaska Council, Boy Scouts of America, held its Annual Awards Dinner in Kenai. Adult Scout leaders gathered to reflect on… Continue reading

  • Apr 9, 2015
  • By Stan Steadman

Chuitna River should not be sacrificed for coal mine

Alaska was ranked as the happiest state in the union in 2014, according to research done across the country by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Why?… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2015
  • By Krista Timlin

Annual job fair a success

To all who came to the Peninsula Job Fair, we say, a big thank you for making this annual event a success! The Peninsula Job… Continue reading

  • Apr 9, 2015
  • By Rachel O’Brien

Bill would raise sport fishing fees

If Representative David Talerico has his way HB 137 will require all resident Alaskans to pay $5 more for their sport fishing licenses this coming… Continue reading

  • Apr 7, 2015
  • By Don Johnson

Water belongs to all Alaskans

Alaska’s Constitution states that Alaska’s resources should be used for the people of Alaska. “Of the people, by the people and for the people,” takes… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2015
  • By Mary J. Toutonghi