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Kenai celebrates U.S.A's 238th Birthday and 40th Community Awards recipients

Kenai celebrates U.S.A’s 238th Birthday and 40th Community Awards recipients

Two big days for the Kenai Chamber of Commerce as they moved the traditional January Awards dinner to an Awards Luncheon June 25th just nine… Continue reading

Kenai celebrates U.S.A's 238th Birthday and 40th Community Awards recipients

Soldotna’s capital budget final draft up for review

The city of Soldotna is proposing a capital budget with significant attention to downtown improvement projects aimed at community identity. New light pole banners, landscaping… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Alaska Governor Sean Parnell address a crowd of more than 100 Tuesday July 7, 2014 during a joint chamber luncheon at the Soldotna Regional Sports Center. Parnell signed 11 bills into law during the meeting.

Taking care of the bills: 11 measures signed into law

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell signed 11 bills into law during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. A large crowd… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Alaska Governor Sean Parnell address a crowd of more than 100 Tuesday July 7, 2014 during a joint chamber luncheon at the Soldotna Regional Sports Center. Parnell signed 11 bills into law during the meeting.

Board approves recommended site for new K-Selo school

With the approval of a recommended site, the village of Kachemak Selo is one step closer to seeing a new schoolhouse. The next step is… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI

Buccaneer bankruptcy slows gas fight with CIRI

A dispute over natural gas rights and royalties is on hold as the producer works out its finances in a South Texas Bankruptcy Court.Representatives for… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER Morris News Service-Alaska

Alaska man gets 4 life terms in Coast Guard deaths

ANCHORAGE (AP) — An Alaska man was sentenced Tuesday to four consecutive life terms in the 2012 shooting deaths of two co-workers at a Coast… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014

Parnell won’t study pot measure ahead of vote

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell said he will not use state resources to study the implications of legalizing marijuana unless voters approve a pot… Continue reading

  • Jul 8, 2014

Board approves proposed Kachemak Selo School site

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education approved a site for a proposed new Kachemak Selo School at its Monday meeting. Selecting a… Continue reading

  • Jul 7, 2014
  • By Staff Report
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Dan Nelson, Daniell Stynsberg, and Brad Nelson met Monday July 7, 2014 as Stynsberg presented the two with a check for $2500 in proceeds from a t-shirt commemorating the Funny River Horse Trail Wildfire fighting efforts at the Central Emergency Services administration building in Soldotna.

Keep calm: T-shirts net $2,500 for emergency services charities

Brad Nelson knows social media and as the Funny River Horse Trail wildfire spread, his name became synonymous with frequent, rapid updates spreading on Facebook.… Continue reading

  • Jul 7, 2014
  • By Rashah McChesney
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Dan Nelson, Daniell Stynsberg, and Brad Nelson met Monday July 7, 2014 as Stynsberg presented the two with a check for $2500 in proceeds from a t-shirt commemorating the Funny River Horse Trail Wildfire fighting efforts at the Central Emergency Services administration building in Soldotna.

Fatalities mar holiday weekend

Two separate accidental deaths on the Kenai Peninsula put a damper on the Fourth of July weekend.A Wasilla woman died in an all-terrain vehicle accident… Continue reading

  • Jul 7, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER

Woman mauled by bear

ANCHORAGE (AP) — A jogger who came upon two bear cubs on a trail south of Anchorage said she was attacked by the mother bear… Continue reading

  • Jul 7, 2014
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Kenai resident John Lindgren takes aim with his traditional longbow at the Independence Day Marked 3-D Archery Tournament Sunday at the Kenai Peninsula Archery Range in Soldotna. Lindgren won the traditional division with 670 points accumulated from 45 targets over the two-day tournament.

Taking aim

With a traditional longbow in hand, Kenai resident John Lindgren felt like a kid again walking through the woods target shooting during a two-day archery… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By DAN BALMER
Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Kenai resident John Lindgren takes aim with his traditional longbow at the Independence Day Marked 3-D Archery Tournament Sunday at the Kenai Peninsula Archery Range in Soldotna. Lindgren won the traditional division with 670 points accumulated from 45 targets over the two-day tournament.

Increasing energy costs make saving a challenge

With rising energy costs, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District continues to try to reduce energy consumption to save money.While utilities make up slightly more… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By KAYLEE OSOWSKI
John Perkins, pictured with his drum, educates tourists on the uses of Sitka spruce trees, hemlock trees, and red alder trees, June 26, 2014. Perkins is a Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tram conductor. (AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, Mary Catharine Martin)

Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride

JUNEAU — John Perkins starts his daily journeys up Mount Roberts with a few lessons in basic Tlingit.Then he gets out his drum and breaks… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By MARY CATHARINE MARTIN
John Perkins, pictured with his drum, educates tourists on the uses of Sitka spruce trees, hemlock trees, and red alder trees, June 26, 2014. Perkins is a Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tram conductor. (AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, Mary Catharine Martin)
In this June 18, 2014, photo, volunteer workers, from left, Brant Brantman, Bridger Williams, Xaver Clarke and Jesse Brantman hold up some of the iron balls they found mixed in the rocks they were removing from the Hames Center roof in Sitka, Alaska. The balls likely came from the same place as the rocks --the Indian River area, the site of battles between Tlingit Natives and Russians in 1804. They may be Russian canister shot fired from ship's cannons. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)

Sitka roof project raises echo of 1804 battle

SITKA — Roofing volunteers or amateur archaeologists?The workers on the Hames Center reroofing project thought of themselves as both last week after finding about 20… Continue reading

  • Jul 6, 2014
  • By SHANNON HAUGLAND
In this June 18, 2014, photo, volunteer workers, from left, Brant Brantman, Bridger Williams, Xaver Clarke and Jesse Brantman hold up some of the iron balls they found mixed in the rocks they were removing from the Hames Center roof in Sitka, Alaska. The balls likely came from the same place as the rocks --the Indian River area, the site of battles between Tlingit Natives and Russians in 1804. They may be Russian canister shot fired from ship's cannons. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)

Tribes seek to intervene in Pebble lawsuit

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A consortium of tribes is seeking to intervene in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a lawsuit challenging EPA’s… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014

Kenai Peninsula Peony industry a growing one

Peony growers on the Kenai Peninsula are preparing for a future of internationally competitive production and cultivating a new population of growers. At the annual… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan

[+Slideshow] Thousands turn out for Independence Day

Before the Independence Day parade began in Kenai, Trading Bay Drive was a loudly chaotic jumble of star-spangled puppies, sugar and sun-soaked kids and last-minute… Continue reading

  • Jul 4, 2014
  • By KELLY SULLIVAN and RASHAH McCHESNEY

Binkley Street improvements on schedule

Less than one month after the opening of the first roundabout at the intersection of Binkley Street and Wilson Lane, the downtown improvement plan is… Continue reading

  • Jul 5, 2014
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cody Slemp uses a shovel to keep a pre-asphalt leveling material pouring out of a dump truck as a NorthStar Paving and Construction crew works on a new portion of a bicycle trail running along Kalifornsky Beach Road Thursday July 3, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.

[Photo] A smooth ride

Bicycle path crew standalone… Continue reading

  • Jul 3, 2014
Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Cody Slemp uses a shovel to keep a pre-asphalt leveling material pouring out of a dump truck as a NorthStar Paving and Construction crew works on a new portion of a bicycle trail running along Kalifornsky Beach Road Thursday July 3, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska.