In week three of the KDLL/Kenai Fine Art Center April Art Auction, we meet Melinda Hershberger, Sandra Sterling and Abbey Ulen. Artwork is on display at Veronica's Cafe in Kenai through April and you can bid online for your favorite piece.

In week two of the KDLL/Kenai Fine Art Center April Art Auction, we meet Marion Nelson and Jason Ramirez. Artwork is on display at Veronica's Cafe in Kenai through April and you can bid online for your favorite piece.

The Kenai Peninsula has been a key player in Alaska’s budding cannabis industry since the state legalized recreational marijuana use six years ago. 

There are now over 70 licenses in play for active and operating peninsula-based marijuana businesses, according to documents from the state’s Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office. That includes both cultivators and retailers.

It’s been a long and wet winter, but the snow in Southcentral is finally melting.

If you’re in the business of snow removal, like Alex Matiaco, that means it’s the end of your season. After years of plowing for others, he started his own snow removal business this year — K-Beach Plowing.

He's happy with how his season went. By the end of February, Matiaco said, he had 25 contracted clients.

Travel was one of the first things to go last March, sending students who were on the Kenai Peninsula for foreign exchange — and their counterparts from Kenai who were abroad — packing.

But some programs are coming back in 2021. Our guests are Mitch Michaud with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange program, in conjunction with Kenai Peninsula College; Eileen Bryson with the local chapter of the American Field Service; and Will Morrow with the Soldotna Rotary Club's exchange program.

The worlds of music and performance have been disrupted in the last year. But it looks like we’re on the upswing. People are getting vaccinated, the Wednesday market will have live shows and people are getting jazzed to see their favorite bands again.

Our guests today are all Kenai Peninsula-based musicians: Sue Biggs, Jack Will, Nelson Kempf and Robert Carlson.

In this month’s Drinking on the Last Frontier, host Bill Howell recommends beer and cheese pairings, proper serving temperatures for beer and offers his hopes for a quick end to the hard seltzer trend. Plus, interviews with Haines Brewing Co. and Fairbanks’ Lat65 Brewing Co.

Don't forget your favorite brews with Flagship February, plus a look at the ancient Egyptian history of brewing and what's new with Big Delta Brewing and Kenai River Brewing Co. Cheers!