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Lisa Gabriel, left, watches as beach seine nets are pulled from the waters of Cook Inlet at a test site for the gear near Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Board of Fish to consider set beach seines for east side setnet fishery

Seines were tested on local beaches this summer in effort helmed by Lisa and Brian Gabriel

The Alaska Board of Fisheries hears public testimony at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska, on Feb. 18, 1999. (M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Board of Fisheries again declines to hold Upper Cook Inlet meeting on Kenai Peninsula

The State Board of Fisheries last week rejected calls from the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the cities of…

A sign welcomes visitors on July 7, 2021, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Board of Fish sets 2026 Lower Cook Inlet meeting for Seward

The board last met in Seward in 2019

Sockeye salmon are gathered together at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Board of Fish to consider expansion of commercial dipnetting fishery

Discussion of expanded time, days and season of commercial dipnet fishery scheduled for March

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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CARTS considering expansion to southern peninsula

Representatives gave a presentation to the Homer City Council on Oct. 28

Erosion damage to the Homer Spit Road roadbed, caused by a severe winter storm event on Oct. 16, is photographed on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. The worst of the erosion occurred across the road from the Heritage RV campground office on the Spit. Photo by Bryan Hawkins

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City seeks state help for emergency Spit erosion mitigation

The Homer City Council passed a resolution calling for emergency erosion repairs on the Homer Spit

Troopers Joseph Miller Jr. and Jason Woodruff are seen in a screenshot from body camera footage taken in Kenai, Alaska, on May 24, 2024. (Photo provided by Alaska Department of Law)

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Grand jury indicts 2 troopers on felony assault charge

The complaint cites both audio and body camera footage

Duane Bannock speaks to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough’s tourism industry working group takes shape

The group will explore the effects of a potential bed tax

Rose Burke, center left, is celebrated for winning the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree essay contest by Connections Homeschool Principal Douglas Hayman, right, at the Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai, Alaska, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Connections student to light U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree

Rose Burke, 9, won the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree essay contest and will travel to Washington D.C.

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Learning to archive Alaska history

Homer High students complete study on former Alaska biologist Dave Rosenau’s personal collection

A cruise ship is docked in Seward, Alaska on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Seward gets nearly $46 million for power upgrades at port

The funds are intended to transform Seward’s port into a “green port”

Assembly Member Peter Ribbens speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ribbens, Cooper named new heads of borough assembly

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly reorganized during their Oct. 22 meeting

Seward City Clerk Kris Peck, right, administers an oath of office to Seward City Council newcomer Casie Warner during a council meeting in Seward, Alaska, on Oct. 28, 2024. (Screenshot courtesy City of Seward)

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Seward City Council swears in winners of October municipal election

They were sworn in two weeks after the council certified its election results