Riley Board, KDLL
Riley Board is a Report For America corps member covering rural communities on the central Kenai Peninsula for KDLL. A recent graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied linguistics, English literature and German, Board was editor-in-chief of The Middlebury Campus, the student newspaper, and completed work as a Kellogg Fellow, doing independent linguistics research. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press, covering the early days of the pandemic’s effects on Vermont communities, and at Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife, where she wrote about culture and folklife in Washington, D.C. and beyond. Board hails from Sarasota, Florida.
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A crash on the Seward Highway last Thursday just north of Turnagain Pass resulted in one fatality and four hospitalizations.
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The climate in Nikiski isn’t particularly kind to most cherry trees. But that didn’t stop a farmer there who is growing 50 varieties of cherries.
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A new overhaul to Kenai Peninsula Borough code regarding gravel pits and other material sites is up for public comment next month.
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Alaskans headed to the polls Tuesday to participate in the first ever statewide ranked-choice election.
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School starts tomorrow in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Students are returning to school for the third school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, many COVID mitigation protocols that have existed in the past will not be in place, but the district is still encouraging students to be responsible.
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Broadband in Alaska has been getting a lot of attention lately. The state faces unique challenges when it comes to internet connectivity because of its large area and small population.
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On an overcast Tuesday evening, a group of local residents who care about the cleanliness of their waterways showed up for two hours of what they call Trashersize.
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Two of the three candidates vying to temporarily fill the late Congressman Don Young’s seat in the U.S House of Representatives made the trip to Kenai last week for a candidate forum hosted by the Kenai and Soldotna chambers of commerce.
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A years-long plan to update the highway through Moose Pass continues to draw pushback from residents of the small community, who worry the project will be disruptive to their properties and community.
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The new Three Bears location in Sterling is slated to open on Friday, Aug. 5.Construction delays pushed the original opening back more than a year. But the Wasilla-based company says it hopes everything will be good to go Friday at the new location — which will include a grocery store, gas station, liquor store, convenience store, and Ace Hardware store.