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Boys soccer preview: Kenai returns as champs, can anyone topple them?

Boys soccer preview: Kenai returns as champs, can anyone topple them?

Having had their rule of the roost for three years in succession, the Kenai Central boys are enjoying life at the top of the Peninsula… Continue reading

Boys soccer preview: Kenai returns as champs, can anyone topple them?
Season review: Brown Bears to move quickly on hiring head coach

Season review: Brown Bears to move quickly on hiring head coach

The Kenai River Brown Bears will move quickly to name their next head coach as the North American Hockey League team prepares for its 13th… Continue reading

Season review: Brown Bears to move quickly on hiring head coach
Girls soccer preview 2019: At-large berths add intrigue

Girls soccer preview 2019: At-large berths add intrigue

Six schools play girls soccer in the Peninsula Conference, which was created before the 2018 season with the split of soccer into two divisions. Even… Continue reading

Girls soccer preview 2019: At-large berths add intrigue
SoHi swept by West in soccer openers

SoHi swept by West in soccer openers

Playing in their season soccer openers at home, and against bigger competition, the SoHi boys and girls had their hands full with the pesky West… Continue reading

SoHi swept by West in soccer openers
Kenai girls, boys swept by West in home openers

Kenai girls, boys swept by West in home openers

The Kenai Central offense was almost as cold as the weather Thursday night on the soccer pitch in the Kardinals home openers. The girls lost… Continue reading

Kenai girls, boys swept by West in home openers
The red-breasted nuthatch is one of our common resident bird species. (Photo provided by Kyla Canterbury)

Refuge notebook: Resident bird songs welcome spring

I am always pleasantly surprised by the influx of daylight hours and sunshine that comes to the Kenai Peninsula in the last weeks of March.… Continue reading

The red-breasted nuthatch is one of our common resident bird species. (Photo provided by Kyla Canterbury)
The crust skiing in the hills above Seward has been epic lately. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Tangled up in Blue: Tunnels

I heard there are tunnels just below the streets of Seward, vacant remnants of an Army looking to protect the coast. There are small signs… Continue reading

The crust skiing in the hills above Seward has been epic lately. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Ostrander given top weekly athlete honor

Ostrander given top weekly athlete honor

Boise State’s Allie Ostrander was named the Mountain West Conference Track Athlete of the Week Tuesday afternoon, just four days after setting a top-10 all-time… Continue reading

Ostrander given top weekly athlete honor
Kenai’s Cooper nabs biathlon podium

Kenai’s Cooper nabs biathlon podium

Kenai’s Travis Cooper raced to a third-place finish Sunday at the U.S. Biathlon National Championships in Jericho, Vermont. Representing the National Guard Biathlon team, Cooper… Continue reading

Kenai’s Cooper nabs biathlon podium
Trigger Moody catches a fish at the Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby on March 23, 2019, on Rogue Lake at the Decanter Inn at Mile 107 of the Sterling Highway in Alaska. The derby was held by the Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association)

Ice Racing Report: Season ends with Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby

The Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association held its annual Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby on March 23 on Rogue Lake at the Decanter Inn at Mile… Continue reading

  • Apr 2, 2019
  • By FAITH LINK For the Clarion
Trigger Moody catches a fish at the Kid’s Ice Fishing Derby on March 23, 2019, on Rogue Lake at the Decanter Inn at Mile 107 of the Sterling Highway in Alaska. The derby was held by the Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association)
A skier from the women’s team “sarahlisa” competes at the Sea to Ski Triathlon in Homer, Alaska, on Sunday, March 31, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Greer, Kornfield win Sea to Ski Triathlon

Forrest Greer and Tamra Kornfield won the Sea to Ski Triathlon on Sunday in Homer. The triathlon starts at the base of the Homer Spit… Continue reading

A skier from the women’s team “sarahlisa” competes at the Sea to Ski Triathlon in Homer, Alaska, on Sunday, March 31, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Friday: Brown Bears defeat Ice Dogs in shootout

Friday: Brown Bears defeat Ice Dogs in shootout

The Kenai River Brown Bears came back from 4-1 and 5-3 deficits to defeat the Fairbanks Ice Dogs 6-5 in a shootout Friday at the… Continue reading

Friday: Brown Bears defeat Ice Dogs in shootout
Track & Field preview: Who to watch in 2019

Track & Field preview: Who to watch in 2019

The towering snow piles are quickly melting away and the spring sun is radiating down on high school track and field teams around the Kenai… Continue reading

Track & Field preview: Who to watch in 2019
Ostrander posts top-10 historic time for 10K at Stanford

Ostrander posts top-10 historic time for 10K at Stanford

Boise State’s Allie Ostrander posted the 10th-fastest outdoor time in NCAA history for the women’s 10,000 meters with a scorching run Friday at the Stanford… Continue reading

Ostrander posts top-10 historic time for 10K at Stanford
Painting Lines

Painting Lines

I have been drawing those lines my whole life.

Painting Lines
Brown Bears lose final weekend series opener to Ice Dogs

Brown Bears lose final weekend series opener to Ice Dogs

The Kenai River Brown Bears got their final weekend of North American Hockey League play off to a slow start, dropping a 3-1 tilt to… Continue reading

Brown Bears lose final weekend series opener to Ice Dogs
The Seward and Kenai Central cheerleading squads pose after the March Madness Alaska state cheerleading competition at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on March 20. Kenai, in the top row, is Samuel Ward, Hannah Olson, Nia Calvert, Arielle Hamar, Karley Harden, Sirinda Rongsakul, Morgan Mallory, Rileigh Pace, Keelin McGraw and Valerie Brophy. The Seward squad, bottom row, is Emilia Whitcomb, Kyrsten Johnson-Gray, Gaia Casagranda and Jessica Batubara. (Photo provided by Kenai Central)

Seward wins Division II state cheerleading crown; Kenai 2nd

The Seward cheerleading squad took first in Division II, while Kenai Central was second, on March 20 at the March Madness Alaska state cheerleading competition… Continue reading

The Seward and Kenai Central cheerleading squads pose after the March Madness Alaska state cheerleading competition at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on March 20. Kenai, in the top row, is Samuel Ward, Hannah Olson, Nia Calvert, Arielle Hamar, Karley Harden, Sirinda Rongsakul, Morgan Mallory, Rileigh Pace, Keelin McGraw and Valerie Brophy. The Seward squad, bottom row, is Emilia Whitcomb, Kyrsten Johnson-Gray, Gaia Casagranda and Jessica Batubara. (Photo provided by Kenai Central)
Former Congressman John Dingell Jr., who passed away last month, with Regional Director Tom Melius and John Hartig, former manager of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, in 2017 (Photo by USFWS).

Refuge Notebook: The passing of a conservation hero

Last month, John D. Dingell Jr. passed away. He represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1955 through the next 60 years, making… Continue reading

  • Mar 28, 2019
  • By JOHN MORTON Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Former Congressman John Dingell Jr., who passed away last month, with Regional Director Tom Melius and John Hartig, former manager of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, in 2017 (Photo by USFWS).
Seward City Council names ball field for Ryan M. Lewis

Seward City Council names ball field for Ryan M. Lewis

The Seward City Council renamed Citizens Field to Ryan M. Lewis Field on Tuesday. Lewis passed away unexpectedly at 37 in February. According to his… Continue reading

Seward City Council names ball field for Ryan M. Lewis
Truesdell awarded Youth Pride of Alaska honor

Truesdell awarded Youth Pride of Alaska honor

Soldotna High junior Jersey Truesdell received the Youth Pride of Alaska Award in the annual Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Directors’ Awards announced Thursday. Truesdell… Continue reading

Truesdell awarded Youth Pride of Alaska honor