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Nanwalek boys ready for 1st state appearance

The Nanwalek boys basketball team will make its first appearance at a state basketball tournament tonight when the…

Homer’s Carter Tennison splits Kenai Central’s Ky Calvert and Eli McCubbins on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at the Peninsula Conference tournament at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Grace Christian sweeps Peninsula Conference titles; Kenai girls, Homer boys take 2nd

The Grace Christian girls and boys basketball teams claimed Peninsula Conference titles last Friday at Kenai Central High…

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Skiers take off for the men’s 40K freestyle race at Sunday’s Tour of Tsalteshi event just outside of Soldotna on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022.

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Out of the Office: Back in rhythm

At the beginning of February, I began reading “If Beale Street Could Talk” by James Baldwin.

Ninilchik's Justin Trail saves the ball in front of Kenai Central's Luke Armstrong and Eli McCubbins on Saturday, March 5, 2022, at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ninilchik boys top Kenai, complete perfect regular season

Wolverines finish with 21-0 record.

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Hoops roundup: Nanwalek boys clinch historic state berth

For the first time in its history, Nanwalek boys team goes to state.

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Ninilchik boys move to 19-0

The Ninilchik boys basketball team moved to 19-0 with a nonconference, 81-56 victory late Saturday over host Unalaska.

Soldotna's Hudson Metcalf and Kenai Central's John Grossl wrestle at 182 pounds Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, at Kenai Central High School. Metcalf would pin Grossl. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Mousasi stops Vanderford, retains middleweight title

Austin Vanderford, a 2008 graduate of Ninilchik School, took the first loss of his pro mixed martial arts…

Lady Mariner Sydney Shelby and her teammates put up a defense against the Lady Bulldogs during Senior Night on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, at the Alice Witte Gym at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Behind Shelby are, from left to right, Mel Morris, Hannah Stonorov, Delilah Harris, and Bethany Engebretsen. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Hoops roundup: Mariner girls, boys win in Senior Night

Seward girls 23, Homer 22

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Kenai skiers sweep borough ski meet

The Kenai Central girls and boys cross-country skiing teams swept the Kenai Peninsula Borough ski meet Saturday at…

Dr. Alan Boraas leads a tour of Kalifornsky Village, a former Native settlement, in April 2014. Boraas was a professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College, an honorary member of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe and the driving force behind the creation, maintenance and expansion of the Tsalteshi Ski Trails.
(Photo courtesy of Jenny Neyman)

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Out of the Office: Best ski of the year

Memory is strongly tied to place. That’s why I can never take the ski from Arc Lake to…

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Homer takes 3rd; Kenai tops SoHi for 4th

The Homer hockey team defeated North Pole 4-0 on Saturday at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center…

Soldotna's Alexis Wells skates to 39th place in the junior varsity freestyle race at the Kardinal Klassic at the Kenai Golf Course on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai skiers have big Kardinal Klassic

The Kenai cross-country ski program won all the individual races, plus the overall girls title, Friday and Saturday…

Matfey Reutov moves the puck down the rink against a Soldotna High School player on Friday, Jan. 14. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Not much separates teams at Divison II state hockey

If the regular season is any indication, a tense Division II state hockey tournament awaits Thursday through Saturday…