Ken Castner News Today

Local author publishes her own work while encouraging other writers

Thank you for participating in the workshop for building Japanese Taiko Drums at Kachemak Bay Campus and watching three different performances from Tomodachi Daiko Inc. in Anchorage with Alaska Japanese Club for the 40th Anniversary Celebration.

City council resolution will be introduced on April 8

Thank you for recognizing trail maintenance

City staff received a baseline conditions report and passed an ordinance appropriating funding match

Decisions on the proposed development at the former Lighthouse Village remain forthcoming.

The group includes peninsula borough and city mayors

While 2023 saw the closest thing to a “return to normalcy” since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, actual COVID numbers and hospitalizations were reported to be rising for the first few months of the year before dropping to unprecedented lows. With a drastic decrease in demand for on-site tests and vaccines, the South Peninsula COVID-19 testing and vaccine site closed its doors, giving way to at-home testing and treatment at the regular hospital facilities.

The group includes peninsula borough and city mayors

State officials and utilities have warned that Cook Inlet, which supplies natural gas to Southcentral Alaska, may face a shortage by the end of the decade.