Kasilof News

While the term "pillar of society" is often bandied about, Herb Stettler of Kasilof truly lives up the moniker.

Icy roads earlier this week left many drivers in ditches along the side of the road, and with cooler temperatures predicted again this weekend, motorists should take precautions for this and future winter driving conditions.

HOMER TRIBUNE/Aaron Selbig - A cluster of dipnetters plies the waters of the Kenai River July 19 as a commercial fishing vessel passes by.

The Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board voted unanimously Monday to advise the Kenai Peninsula Borough to conduct an operational audit of Central Peninsula General Hospital Inc.

Anyone living south of Soldotna is well aware of the federally-funded Sterling Highway resurfacing project that's been under way since August, and after weeks of reduced speed zones and lane restrictions, many want to know when it will end for the season.

The wait for Tom Youngblood was long -- and lucrative. Youngblood, the Homer resident who caught a 354.6-pound halibut more than three months ago, on Wednesday night was declared the winner of the 24th annual Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby and earned $40,400. Alaska Samoans unite to aid tsunami victims Masae Fanene, a 29-year-old who grew up in ...

All areas of the Kenai Peninsula Borough are feeling the impact of a two-term limit approved by borough voters in 2007.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has a lenient policy on allowing pupils to go to schools outside their attendance area, but now some buildings are bursting at the seams with students while others abound with space, according to administrators.

As the peak of fire season has passed, many Kenai Peninsula residents will soon start felling trees for firewood, or begin clearing away dead trees to get a jump on next year's fire season.

Editor's note: During a recent visit between Homer Staff Writer McKibben Jackinsky and her grandson, Colby Aley, 13, formerly of Alaska and currently a resident of Oregon, the two compared childhood activities that left a mark on their lives.

Repair and construction work is expected to start Friday at a pair of Kenai Peninsula parks - one in Kasilof, the other in Nikiski.

The Watchman's Cabin on the northern side of the Kasilof River's mouth has seen a lot of residents and visitors in the last 120 or so years, and sadly not all of them have been kind to the endangered historic structure.

It looks as though commercial fishing for the east side of Cook Inlet has come to an end.

From the Redoubt Reporter: Mike and Patti Curry, and several of their neighbors near the mouth of the Kasilof River, observed their own private holiday Saturday -- Fishermen Exodus Day.

Closing commercial fisheries last Monday and Thursday paid off -- for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game anyway.

Closing commercial fisheries last Monday and Thursday paid off -- for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game anyway.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly has one remaining meeting to decide whether or not its constituents will have a chance to vote on a possible change on who runs the administration and/or whether or not the community should build a sports dome.

The state Department of Fish and Game has issued an emergency closure order for upper Cook Inlet drift gillnetters.

Some people missed their fishing charter, others late for wedding festivities, and others were just mad they had to spend a day off sitting in their car for hours due to construction related to Kasilof River bridge upgrades, as traffic ground to a halt for several hours Saturday.

Dipnetters at the mouth of the Kasilof River sprang into action on Thursday afternoon to help one of their own, but not in time to keep a pickup truck mired in the mud on the north side of the river from being swamped by the incoming tide.