Last Saturday, July 11th, the Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks held the 2026 Kachemak Bay Mountain Classic, a race held annually as a fundraiser to bring awareness to the park trails lost to overgrowth. This year’s race was a new route along trails recently cleared by Friends volunteers. Emilie Springer spoke with Friends volunteer Silas Firth for more details and results from this year’s race.
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Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL“This has been billed as the bill that either makes a pipeline be built or does not make a pipeline be built, and that just really is not true,” said Soldotna Republican Rep. Justin Ruffridge. -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLThe most expensive item on the list is $450,000 for early-stage work toward improving the ice rink at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. The money would pay for preliminary engineering and design documents for replacement of the rink’s refrigeration system. -
Sabine Poux/KDLLAlaska State Troopers say 31-year-old Jonas Perletti sexually abused a family friend in a private residence when she was 14. -
Courtesy photo./University of AlaskaDr. Karen Davis O’Hara most recently served as executive dean of a Sierra College campus in California.
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