The Homer City Council offered City Clerk Melissa Jacobsen the city manager position at last night’s meeting. Tomorrow morning, the annual Fourth of July celebration in Seldovia will include a 5-km race known as the Salmon Shuffle. Fireworks are banned across the Kenai Peninsula Borough. A Seward man is accused of making an online threat to “bomb and shoot” Governor Mike Dunleavy’s office.

The Kenai Art Center will soon unveil two new exhibits with very different vibes. Gallery goers can expect to feel calmed by one installation and enchanted by another, and Alaska State Troopers arrested a deckhand at Iliamna Bay and charged him with multiple counts of third degree assault late last month.

Alaska State Troopers arrested a deckhand at Iliamna Bay and charged him with multiple counts of third degree assault late last month. A wildfire that burned more than 50 acres east of Tustumena Lake this weekend was caused by an escaped campfire at Centennial Lake Campground, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will open the Russian River Sanctuary Area early for sockeye salmon sport fishing. The fishery will open tomorrow instead of July 15. After five decades of working for grocery chain Safeway-Carrs, an 82-year-old Kenai worker has no plans to retire.

The Biden Administration finalized a decision blocking the controversial Ambler Road project Friday. The 200 mile road would branch off the Dalton Highway and cut through a national park to access mineral deposits in Northwest Alaska, and Alaska Airlines has suspended its mileage-sharing agreement with Ravn Alaska.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state’s budget on Friday; and the City of Kenai recently unveiled a new piece of inclusive playground equipment at Kenai Municipal Park. Paid for by the Marathon Corporation, the seesaw has several inclusive features designed to accommodate children of all ages and abilities.

Friday morning, a cruise ship weighed anchor in Kachemak Bay and began shuttling passengers to the Homer Spit, and rooftop solar panel installers have been busy the last few years as demand for affordable energy in Alaska grows.

Allie Ostrander won’t run for Team USA in this year’s Olympic Games in Paris; the Youth Conservation Corps is a nationally recognized summer work initiative for teens interested in outdoor recreation and environmental education. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is a recipient of the program, and recently trained local youth to assist in maintenance projects; Alaska Department of Fish and Game released an advisory this morning for the Lower Cook Inlet Salmon Fishery; and this morning (06/28), a cruise ship weighed anchor in Kachemak Bay and began shuttling passengers to the Homer Spit.

On the Summer Solstice, Homer Senior Citizens held a fashion show for seniors and the community; and there’s long been talk about how to make the highway between Kenai and Soldotna safer, but residents along the road have clashed with the state over the best way to do that.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has extended the youth-only king salmon fishery in Seward until the end of July; and dipnetting on the Kasilof River opened Tuesday.

The Alaska Division of Forestry is seeking space at the Soldotna Airport to migrate its existing base. The division applied for a lease in April proposing new construction of a warehouse, firefighter standby space and an administrative building. Also, the new parent company of the Central Kenai Peninsula’s newspaper, The Peninsula Clarion, is reducing the paper to just once-a-week printing.