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Areas cleared to make way for the Cooper Landing Bypass Project (bottom) can be seen above the Kenai River in Cooper Landing in this August 10, 2021, photo. (Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Borough mulls plans for bypass parcel

The 1,000-acre Juneau Bench, or Unit 395, is located north of the Sterling Highway

The Alaska Board of Fisheries discusses three emergency petitions directed at Cook Inlet East Side Set Net closures during the 2023 Statewide Finfish Meeting on Monday, March 13, 2023, at the Egan Civic & Convention Center in Anchorage Alaska. (Screenshot)

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Fisheries board rejects local anglers’ emergency petitions

Each of the petitions was rejected for failing to meet the board’s definition of an emergency

The sign in front of the Homer Electric Association building in Kenai, Alaska, as seen on April 1, 2020. (Peninsula Clarion file)

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6 vying for seats on HEA Board of Directors

The board is composed of nine directors elected from three voting districts

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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City council funds new comprehensive plan development

The Homer City Council approved the development of a new comprehensive plan and a complete update of the…

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City council removes seat from Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association board

The Homer City Council at their Feb. 27 meeting passed resolution 23-019, expressing support for removing the city’s…

Char Moore (right) accepts the judges’ choice first place award for toy poodle Reba at the Snow Rondi dog show on Sunday, March 5 at the Anchor Point Senior Center in Anchor Point, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Debbie Carpenter

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Snow Rondi dog show revival a howling success

Anchor Point’s annual Snow Rondi went to the dogs last weekend, in the best way. The Anchor Point…

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Volunteer Mike Smith (right) supervises as Jack Roderick, Simon Smith, and Rox Shafer set their wood cars on the track in the Chapman School gym during the Snow Rondi Pinewood Derby on Saturday<ins>, March 4</ins> in Anchor Point<ins>,</ins> <ins>Alaska</ins>.

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Snow Rondi brings back pinewood derby

Chapman School hosted the returning Pinewood Derby races on Saturday, March 4 as part of Anchor Point’s Snow…

Leslie Jacoby, whose daughter Lydia is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Seward, testifies testifies in opposition to the proposed cut of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District pool managers during a board of education meeting on Monday, March 6, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Community makes plea to school board as pools, theaters face cuts

The cuts are just two of the budget reductions put forth for consideration by the board’s finance committee

Information about SNAP benefit amounts is posted on a wall at the Alaska Division of Public Assistance’s Kenai office on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Food bank sees demand jump amid SNAP benefit backlog

About 9.5% of the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s roughly 22,800 households received SNAP benefits in 2021

Dipnetters can be seen here fishing in the Kenai River on July 10, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Board of Fisheries to meet

March 10 through March 13, the board will meet at the Egan Civic Convention Center to discuss 19…

A sign to Kenai National Wildlife Refuge trails is seen Wednesday, March 23, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Fish and Wildlife Service withdraws Kenai Refuge proposal

The service received around 45,000 public comments regarding the proposal

A man fishes in the Kenai River on July 16, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion/file)

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Low king salmon forecasts spur fishing restrictions

Most of the orders concern closures of various fisheries

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Anchor Point revives annual Snow Rondi

Join in winter fun this weekend with the revival of Anchor Point’s Snow Rondi! Events will be hosted…