Riley Board
Senior Reporter
Riley Board is a Report For America reporter covering rural communities on the central Kenai Peninsula for KDLL. She enjoys reporting on local government and education. Her work has appeared on Science Friday, National Native News and Alaska Public Media.
Board is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied linguistics, English literature and German, and was editor-in-chief of The Middlebury Campus, the student newspaper. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, and at Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Magazine in Washington D.C. Board hails from Sarasota, Florida.
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Hundreds of students protested outside the high school Wednesday morning, chanting for a raise in the Base Student Allocation. -
Borough Mayor Peter Micciche says the ordinances are a response to the actions of an individual who harassed employees at multiple borough offices and made unreasonable records requests. -
The Borough Assembly passes two ordinances that target civil trespassing and public records requests. Plus, students walk out of Soldotna High School in protest of stagnant state education funding, and a community health fair is coming to Soldotna this weekend. -
The budget — which uses 100% of the district's unrestricted fund balance and still includes $7.8 million in cuts to staff and programs — was approved in an 8-1 vote Monday. -
Nathan Erfurth's attorney filed a motion to dismiss the case in January, and asked for a hearing to discuss discrepancies between his transcription of recorded conversations that serve as critical evidence in the case and the state's. -
The Soldotna City Council unanimously voted to provide $50 thousand to Soldotna Little League so the organization can fix damage and outdated structures in its complex of fields. -
The bill would provide free lifetime state parks passes to disabled veterans. Nikiski Sen. Jesse Bjorkman prefiled the bill in January, and it had three hearings in March and April. -
Borough Mayor Peter Micciche said he has been in talks with state officials about solutions and funding for a long-sought school building project in the South Peninsula community of Kachemak-Selo. -
A bill that would provide free state parks passes to disabled veterans moves through the legislature. Plus state education officials share an update on a federal letter that says it owes $30 million to four school districts, including the Kenai Peninsula’s, and Seward visits Wonderland in a stage adaptation.
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The Borough Mayor continues efforts to build a new school in Kachemak Selo. And even though Alaska was nowhere near the path of totality, kids and adults still turned out to celebrate the eclipse yesterday at the Challenger Learning Center.
