Simon Lopez

The Alaska Board of Fisheries concluded its Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting Tuesday, after hearing days of public testimony and voting on hundreds of proposals; and Peninsula Piano Tuning and Service has been improving the Kenai Peninsula’s pianos for nearly two years, and is home to the area’s only full-time piano technician.

The Anchor Point Post Office marked its 75th anniversary with an open house last Friday (03/01).

Parents and school staff filled the seats at the Homer Middle School Library for a panel discussion about teen mental health earlier this week [2/27]; and Alaska State Troopers arrested a Soldotna man this week on one count of cruelty to animals after they say he shot his dog in an attempt to euthanize it.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly heard public comment on an ordinance to sell borough-owned land and discussed pending legislation on energy and resilience projects at Tuesday night’s [2/27] meeting.

Jr. Iditarod is a 150 mile dogsled race for mushers ages 14 to 17. Addy Pederson, the only competitive youth musher on the southern Kenai Peninsula, is racing this year for the first time; and The State of Alaska owes the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and two other Alaska districts millions, according to a December letter from the U.S. Department of Education.

Homer Pratt Museum staff work to overcome budget shortfalls and deteriorating infrastructure coming into the 2024 season.

The state of Alaska has seen a backlog in pending applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as SNAP. As a result, some Kenai Peninsula residents who rely on food assistance are leaning more on the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.

The Homer City Council unanimously approved changes to a tariff related to the Homer Port and Harbor, authorized pass-through funds from Doyon Limited related to a traffic impact study, and appropriated funds to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the sister city relationship with Teshio, Japan at Monday nights [2/12] meeting.

The Homer City Council introduced an ordinance changing fees and rules for the city’s harbor facilities; and this week, elementary and middle schoolers across the peninsula had the opportunity to try their hand at ice fishing.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has reclassified its 1,000-acre Cooper Landing property known as Unit 395 for resource management and recreation; and a new study from the Alaska Environment Research and Policy Center finds that microplastics, or fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters in length, were found in 100% of water bodies tested throughout Southcentral Alaska.