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Redington football notches big win over Nikiski

Redington football notches big win over Nikiski

WASILLA — During their first three meetings with Nikiski, the Redington Huskies were outscored a combined 114-6 in a trio of losses to the Bulldogs.… Continue reading

  • Aug 17, 2019
  • By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com
Redington football notches big win over Nikiski
Hall, Aldridge win Soldotna Cycle Series week 7

Hall, Aldridge win Soldotna Cycle Series week 7

Jim Hall biked to the 12-kilometer race victory Thursday night at the Soldotna Cycle Series week 7 race at Tsalteshi Trails. Hall nipped Brian Beeson… Continue reading

Hall, Aldridge win Soldotna Cycle Series week 7
Season preview: Can SoHi reach 8 straight state crowns?

Season preview: Can SoHi reach 8 straight state crowns?

Week 1 of the prep football season has become an annual discourse of the same question — can anyone knock off Soldotna from the Division… Continue reading

Season preview: Can SoHi reach 8 straight state crowns?
Nikiski junior Noah Litke scans the field for an open receiver Aug. 18, 2018, against Valdez at Nikiski High School. Litke returns this year to quarterback the Bulldogs. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Season preview: Trio of peninsula teams eyeing return to Div. III playoffs

Football is back on the peninsula, which means teams at Nikiski, Homer and Seward are back on the hunt for October. The Division III playoffs… Continue reading

Nikiski junior Noah Litke scans the field for an open receiver Aug. 18, 2018, against Valdez at Nikiski High School. Litke returns this year to quarterback the Bulldogs. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
The campsite at mile 65 of the Grand Canyon trip on the Colorado River. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)

Out of the Office: What 187 miles in the Grand Canyon showed me

My heart will always live in Alaska. It’s where I’ve spent most of my life, growing up among the Chugach Mountains where beauty and majesty… Continue reading

The campsite at mile 65 of the Grand Canyon trip on the Colorado River. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
Coming into the Country: Ticks

Coming into the Country: Ticks

While on a family vacation to Florida this spring we took a short walk through a lush, beautiful forest in Faver-Dykes State Park near Pellicer… Continue reading

Coming into the Country: Ticks
Ostrander becomes 1st to win 3 straight MW Female Athlete of Year awards

Ostrander becomes 1st to win 3 straight MW Female Athlete of Year awards

Soldotna’s Allie Ostrander earned another award after leaving Boise State to turn pro, earning the Mountain West Conference Female Athlete of the Year award Thursday… Continue reading

Ostrander becomes 1st to win 3 straight MW Female Athlete of Year awards
Former Kenai football player one to watch at Adams State

Former Kenai football player one to watch at Adams State

Three years and change from walking at Kenai Central’s 2016 graduation, Conner Johnson has reinvented himself as one of Adams State University’s most dangerous players… Continue reading

Former Kenai football player one to watch at Adams State
Twin City Raceway sees youth vs. experience

Twin City Raceway sees youth vs. experience

In leaving the field in his dust, 15-year-old Clay Petersen of Seward continued to prove Saturday night at Twin City Raceway that he may have… Continue reading

Twin City Raceway sees youth vs. experience
Ostrander falls ill, scratches from Pan Am games

Ostrander falls ill, scratches from Pan Am games

Pro runner Allie Ostrander, a 2015 graduate of Kenai Central, was forced to scratch from a women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase race Saturday at the Pan American… Continue reading

Ostrander falls ill, scratches from Pan Am games
Owens, Aldridge win cycle series week #6

Owens, Aldridge win cycle series week #6

Soldotna’s Tyle Owens cruised to his fourth victory in six races at Thursday’s Soldotna Cycle Series race No. 6, winning the 12-kilometer race with a… Continue reading

Owens, Aldridge win cycle series week #6
Rutledge, Millay take victories at 32nd Kenai Run for Women

Rutledge, Millay take victories at 32nd Kenai Run for Women

The 126 runners signed up for Saturday’s 32nd annual LeeShore Center Run for Women enjoyed not only a pleasant day for racing, but did so… Continue reading

Rutledge, Millay take victories at 32nd Kenai Run for Women
Simmering scrimmages: Prep football teams get ready for opening weekend

Simmering scrimmages: Prep football teams get ready for opening weekend

The Kenai Peninsula’s prep football programs scrimmaged Saturday in temperatures in the 70s to get ready for next weekend’s season openers. Soldotna hosted Chugiak in… Continue reading

Simmering scrimmages: Prep football teams get ready for opening weekend
Nikiski’s Billie Denison competes in the squat during the USA Powerlifting Open Nationals in Lombard, Illinois, on May 10, 2019. (Photo courtesy 9for9 Media)

Nikiski’s Denison takes silver in international powerlifting meet

Nikiski powerlifter Billie Denison earned a silver medal Thursday at the North American Powerlifting Federation Regional Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica. Denison, 29, took… Continue reading

Nikiski’s Billie Denison competes in the squat during the USA Powerlifting Open Nationals in Lombard, Illinois, on May 10, 2019. (Photo courtesy 9for9 Media)
The Skyline trail appears brushed out Aug. 2, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Popular peninsula hiking trails reopen after wildfire

Now that the Swan Lake Fire is slowly fizzling out, the majority of mountain trails and wilderness areas are back open for hikers, bikers and… Continue reading

The Skyline trail appears brushed out Aug. 2, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Arneson wins Alaska Mountain Running Grand Prix

Arneson wins Alaska Mountain Running Grand Prix

Anchorage’s Lars Arneson, a 2009 graduate of Cook Inlet Academy, has won the men’s title in the 2019 Alaska Mountain Running Grand Prix. Fellow Anchorage… Continue reading

Arneson wins Alaska Mountain Running Grand Prix
Theisen, Youngren take final Salmon Run Series race of year

Theisen, Youngren take final Salmon Run Series race of year

The five-race Salmon Run Series wrapped up by drawing 87 runners to Tsalteshi Trails on Wednesday. Jordan Theisen, a 2015 Kenai Central graduate and current… Continue reading

Theisen, Youngren take final Salmon Run Series race of year
There are a lot of paths to choose from in Seward, like the Lost Lake Trail. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Tangled up in Blue: Too many roads to travel

The idea of multiverses has been big lately, in this one at least. The theory goes that the world we live in is just one… Continue reading

There are a lot of paths to choose from in Seward, like the Lost Lake Trail. (Photo by Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)
Refuge notebook: The difference between predicting climate change and its ecological outcomes

Refuge notebook: The difference between predicting climate change and its ecological outcomes

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has a great online climate forecasting tool. Simply type in a town, the future decade(s), an emission scenario and voila… Continue reading

Refuge notebook: The difference between predicting climate change and its ecological outcomes
Results posted for ABC Life Choices Celebrate Life! 5K Run and Walk

Results posted for ABC Life Choices Celebrate Life! 5K Run and Walk

Michael Maloney and Tanis Lorring won the 5-kilometer ABC Life Choices Celebrate Life! 5K Run and Walk on Saturday in Soldotna. Maloney finished in 17… Continue reading

Results posted for ABC Life Choices Celebrate Life! 5K Run and Walk