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    Articles by Camille Botello
    People wait in line for Mochileros Guatemalan street food in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    The pitch for Anchorage
    By Camille Botello • April 6, 2022 1:30 am

    My first time on the Kenai Peninsula was a solo trip in the late fall of 2020. When I told…

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    2 killed in head-on crash in Kasilof
    By Camille Botello • March 30, 2022 1:30 am

    Both vehicles received “disabling damage,” troopers reported

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    Homer's Carter Tennison takes a shot against Barrow's Uata Tuifua during the Class 3A boys basketball fourth-place semifinals at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Barrow knocks Homer out of state basketball
    By Camille Botello • March 30, 2022 1:30 am

    The Homer boys basketball squad dropped their Class 3A state fourth-place semifinal game 55-46 against Barrow at the Alaska Airlines…

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    A sockeye salmon’s tail protrudes above the edge of a bin on a setnet site July 11, 2016, near Kenai, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion file photo)
    Salmon runs projected to be weaker than average
    By Camille Botello • March 30, 2022 1:30 am

    A run of around 4.97 million sockeye is projected to return to Upper Cook Inlet

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    The City of Kenai Boat Launch into Cook Inlet is photographed May 14, 2020. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)
    Copper River Seafoods halting Kenai operations this salmon...
    By Camille Botello • March 30, 2022 1:30 am

    The company salmon cited the fisheries management plan, rising production costs and the poor forecast

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    Justin Trail embraces Landon Colburn after the Ninilchik Wolverines won the Class 2A state basketball championship game at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Ninilchik boys cap perfect season with state title
    By Camille Botello • March 23, 2022 1:30 am

    Saturday’s state title was Ninilchik’s first since 2017 and their third overall.

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    Joel Caldwell, director of operations for Kenai Aviation, sits in the pilot’s seat of Kenai Aviation’s nine-seat Beechcrafter Super King Air B200 plane in Kenai, Alaska, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Airline preps to serve Southcentral Alaska
    By Camille Botello • March 16, 2022 1:30 am

    Kenai Aviation seeks to add weekday commuter flights beginning in May

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    A juvenile moose eats an early afternoon snack in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, March 11, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Officials: Give moose their space
    By Camille Botello • March 12, 2022 1:30 am

    ‘We are kind of at the point where they are cold, hungry and cranky’

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    Alaska Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce selects Edie Grunwald to be his running mate at a campaign event at Paradisos restaurant in Kenai on Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    Pierce taps Grunwald, former parole board chair, as...
    By Camille Botello • March 9, 2022 1:30 am

    Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce, a hopeful for the Alaska governor’s seat, has tapped Edie Grunwald as his running…

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    Peggy Mullen and Brent Johnson demonstrate during the Many Voices Ukraine vigil on Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)
    ‘We’re standing with them’
    By Camille Botello • March 9, 2022 1:30 am

    Soldotna group shows support for Ukraine after Russian invasion

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    The logo for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is displayed inside the George A. Navarre Borough Admin Building on Thursday, July 22, 2021 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    KPBSD adds additional early release days
    By Camille Botello • March 9, 2022 1:30 am

    The early release days on March 16 and April 20 are canceled

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    Jason Daniels (Image via Kenai Peninsula Borough School District)
    Local teacher receives presidential award for excellence
    By Camille Botello • March 9, 2022 1:30 am

    Encouraging students to become lifelong learners is what Jason Daniels strives to accomplish every day in his classroom. And people…

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    My mom Alex Botello and I take a photo on the way to Denali National Park on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (Photo provided)
    Chasing the lights
    By Camille Botello • March 9, 2022 1:30 am

    My mom loves looking up at the night sky.

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