The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved land purchases, discussed school funding and finalized election measures at its meeting on Tuesday night. The Ninilchik public school released a letter to the public on August 12th advising that due to staff shortages the school cafeteria would be closed and unable to serve meals until mid-September. There are two opportunities this weekend for Homer youth to audition for upcoming fall and spring dance performances.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved land purchases, discussed school funding and finalized election measures at its meeting last night. The Ninilchik public school released a letter to the public on August 12th advising that due to staff shortages the school cafeteria would be closed and unable to serve meals until mid-September. There are two opportunities this weekend for Homer youth to audition for upcoming fall and spring dance performances.

In April, The Alaska Bar Association held a meeting for Kenai Peninsula lawyers to discuss current topics related to Alaska Bar membership and legal practice on the Kenai Peninsula; and Soldotna’s new multi-purpose field house opened Saturday with an afternoon of activities that included games of pickleball, food trucks and information booths.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will take public comment Tuesday on a plan to buy four properties in Homer for South Peninsula Hospital; last Wednesday, the Homer United Methodist Church Civic Engagement Group hosted a community educational meeting to define Christian Nationalism, how it damages the Christian Faith and imposes on American democracy; and on Friday, the Halibut Cove and China Poot subdistricts closed to purse seine fishing.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will take public comment Tuesday on a plan to buy four properties in Homer for South Peninsula Hospital; last Wednesday, the Homer United Methodist Church Civic Engagement Group hosted a community educational meeting to define Christian Nationalism, how it damages the Christian Faith and imposes on American democracy; and on Friday, the Halibut Cove and China Poot subdistricts closed to purse seine fishing.

Anglers from all over the world descend on the Kenai River each summer for sockeye salmon. And this year, they’ve been catching them with ease — thanks to a record-breaking salmon run; The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is putting a ballot initiative before voters that could lead to people paying more in sales tax for large purchases in the borough; and regional air carrier Ravn Alaska announced on its website Thursday that it was closing – effective immediately.

Anglers from all over the world descend on the Kenai River each summer for sockeye salmon. And this year, they’ve been catching them with ease — thanks to a record-breaking salmon run; The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is putting a ballot initiative before voters that could lead to people paying more in sales tax for large purchases in the borough; and regional air carrier Ravn Alaska announced on its website Thursday that it was closing – effective immediately.

Ninilchik voters will decide this fall whether to tax themselves more to pay for recreation servicesVasily Yakunin, representing Homer’s Church of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord, announced that two invited speakers will who provide a community conversation at the Kachemak Bay Campus on the history of the Russian Orthodox religion on Friday August 15th.

Ninilchik voters will decide this fall whether to tax themselves more to pay for recreation servicesVasily Yakunin, representing Homer’s Church of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord, announced that two invited speakers will who provide a community conversation at the Kachemak Bay Campus on the history of the Russian Orthodox religion on Friday August 15th.

The Kachemak Bay Personal Use Set Gillnet Fishery opens at 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18. Regions of Alaska and the arctic are warming more quickly than anywhere else on Earth. That trend is the focus of a new show at the Kenai Art Center titled “World on Fire.” Every summer for the past 30 years, culture camps have been held in a remote forested landscape on Afognak Island in the northern end of the Kodiak Island Archipelago. Better known for youth summer camps, this month the island hosted the inaugural adult sobriety camp.