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Articles by Ashlyn O'Hara
Senate President Gary Stevens, a Kodiak Republican, confers with other senators and legislative staff moments before gavelling in the start of this year’s legislative session at the Alaska State Capitol. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)
Lawmakers open session with education discussion
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 17, 2024 2:30 am

Early effort to overturn veto of one-time school funding fails in House

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Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion
Kenai Peninsula Education Association President LaDawn Druce (left) and committee Chair Jason Tauriainen (right) participate in the first meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Four Day School Week Ad Hoc Committee on Wednesday in Soldotna.
Group studying 4-day school week model takes shape
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 17, 2024 2:30 am

Members of a newly minted Kenai Peninsula Borough School District group convened for the first time last week in Soldotna…

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Shrubs grow outside of the Kenai Courthouse on Monday, July 3, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Motion to dismiss filed in sexual abuse case...
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 17, 2024 2:30 am

The attorney representing a former Soldotna High School teacher and union head filed a motion last Wednesday to dismiss the…

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A sign welcomes employees and visitors at the Kenai Peninsula Borough administration building on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)
New policy clarifies filming, recording in borough facilities
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 10, 2024 2:30 am

A new Kenai Peninsula Borough policy that explains what is and isn’t allowed in borough buildings when it comes to…

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Graduates throw their caps into the air at the end of Soldotna High School’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
School board mulls grad policy clarifications
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 10, 2024 2:30 am

High school graduates would only be permitted to participate in the commencement ceremonies of the school they are graduating from…

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Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes (left) presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Budget deficit continues to steer school board talks
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 10, 2024 2:30 am

Warnings about the implications and scale of the budget deficit the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is facing for the…

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From left, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members Bill Elam, Brent Johnson, Tyson Cox and Brent Hibbert attend an assembly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 10, 2024 1:30 am

School districts across Alaska lobbied lawmakers heavily last session for a meaningful increase to the base student allocation

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From left: Kylie Wilcox, Bernard Wilcox and Milton Wilcox sit behind the books Milton teaches at Kenai Classical School on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska. Kylie’s New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to read all of the book’s on Milton’s high school syllabus. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Reading with New Year’s resolve
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

Soldotna woman resolves to read the books on her husband’s class syllabi

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A copy of Judy Johnson’s “Alaskan Pioneer Girl” rests in the snow on Sunday, December 24, 2023 near Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Off the Shelf: Small town girl weaves tales...
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

Local memoir is an engaging window into what life on the central peninsula looked like in the second half of the 20th century

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Airplane wreckage sits in brush on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, near Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo via National Transportation Safety Board)
NTSB releases preliminary report on Anchor Point plane...
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

The Dec. 8 crash killed 2

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Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion
Drag performer Jasper Dragful accepts a crown after speaking about the history of drag during Soldotna Pride in the Park on Saturday, June 3, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska.
Soldotna Pride postpones drag story hour event, citing...
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

The story hour was one of three events scheduled as part of a “Happy New Queer Winter Celebration”

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Joel Isaak, Kenaitze Tribe Member and adjunct professor at Kenai Peninsula College, speaks during a Celebration of Life for Dr. Alan Boraas at Kenai Peninsula College on Jan. 17, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)
Local Dena’ina linguist named DEED deputy commissioner
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

Joel Isaak teaches Dena’ina at Kenai Peninsula College and works as a linguist for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe

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Cracks split the siding outside of Soldotna High School on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. The siding is one of several projects in a bond package Kenai Peninsula voters will consider during the Oct. 4 municipal election next month. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Suit alleges fungal growth at 4 KPBSD schools...
By Ashlyn O'Hara • January 4, 2024 2:30 am

The district has both acknowledged and responded to the complaint, KPBSD Superintendent Clayton Holland said

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