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Crews respond to a flood event at the Lowell Creek Tunnel outflow. (Photo courtesy Seward Public Works Director Doug Schoessler)

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Seward considers legislative priority list

Many of the projects are carried over from last year’s list

A sign opposing the participation of trans girls in girls sports is propped against a fire hydrant outside of the George A. Navarre Admin Building on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Board of Education met in the building to discuss a resolution that would ban trans girls from girls high school sports. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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State board of ed to take up transgender sports issue Thursday

The board will consider whether or not to separate cisgender girls, other student athletes

2023 Candidate forum flyer. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Election 2023: Clarion, KDLL to hold in-person candidate forum series

The forums will be held Mondays and Thursdays in September

A voting booth for the Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Homer elections at Cowles Council Chambers on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke/ Homer News)

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Election 2023: Here’s who’s running

Seats are open on city councils, the borough assembly, the school board and numerous service area boards

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Sorensen to be next Seward city manager

Kat Sorensen will be the next city manager of Seward following city council approval of her contract during…

(Foreground) Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland (left) and KPBSD Finance Director Liz Hayes (right) speak about the district’s fiscal year 2024 budget during a work session with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School district prepares to launch ‘Budget 101’ informational meetings

The sessions will be targeted toward the public and will each tackle a different element of the borough’s…

Alaska LNG Project Manager Brad Chastain presents information about the project during a luncheon at the Kenai Chamber Commerce and Visitor Center on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Environmental groups file latest legal challenge to Alaska LNG Project

The groups include the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity

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Veterans may be eligible for new benefit expansion

Representatives of the department spoke on the expansion at a town hall event held Friday in Kenai

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski attends a joint Soldotna and Kenai Chamber of Commerce Luncheon on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Murkowski talks LNG, local projects in Soldotna

Murkowski caught up the Clarion on oil and gas resources and what it looks like to collaborate with…

From left, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education members Jason Tauriainen, Matt Morse, Virginia Morgan and Beverley Romanin participate in a board meeting on Monday, July 10, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board OKs changes to policies on challeges to instructional material

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education on Monday approved changes to the district’s process for…

From left, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members Bill Elam, Brent Johnson, Tyson Cox and Brent Hibbert attend an assembly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Election issues tackled at assembly

The body created a voter turnout working group and approved other changes to borough election code

Outlaw Body and Paint’s Wesley Jackson, center, testifies before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly about the affects of calcium chloride brine on vehicles he treats during a meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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DOT to review salt brine use on peninsula roads

Multiple people, including automotive workers, testified in opposition to the use of the salt brine

Voters fill out their ballots at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, Alaska on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Candidate filing period for local offices now open

Aspiring candidates will have until Aug. 15 to file their candidacy