Riley Board
Reporter
Riley Board is a Reporter For America reporter covering rural communities on the central Kenai Peninsula for KDLL. A recent graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied linguistics, English literature and German, Board was editor-in-chief of The Middlebury Campus, the student newspaper, and completed work as a Kellogg Fellow, doing independent linguistics research. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press, covering the early days of the pandemic’s effects on Vermont communities, and at Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife, where she wrote about culture and folklife in Washington, D.C. and beyond. Board hails from Sarasota, Florida.
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The Kenai Peninsula is a vast collection of distant communities, which makes it a difficult place to navigate without a car. This week, representatives from many local organizations got together to discuss the gaps in public transportation on the peninsula, and what can be done to fill them. -
The Kenai Peninsula is a vast collection of distant communities, which makes it a difficult place to navigate without a car. This week, representatives from many local organizations got together to discuss the gaps in public transportation on the peninsula, and what can be done to fill them.
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The board considered nine proposals for trapping setbacks along trails and campgrounds in Homer and Cooper Landing. Only two were adopted.
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The proposal will limit hunting and trapping on and around the wildlife crossings planned for the Cooper Landing bypass project. The board decided the man-made choke point of the crossings makes them unsuitable for hunting.
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The Peninsula Period Network is working to put free period products in all Kenai Peninsula schools. Our guest, network founder Chera Wackler, talks about the process of making that goal a reality.
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The assembly approved a $20 thousand allocation for the Seward-Bear Creek Flood Service Area to upgrade its part-time leader role into a full-time program manager.
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Businesses that faced economic losses as a result of the landslide last spring have another month to apply for loans from the Small Business Administration.
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The deadline approaches for Lowell Point business to apply for loans that will offset the economic impacts of the Lowell Point landslide last spring. And the Homer food pantry works to fill the gap in state SNAP benefits.
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The company is planning to add three wells — two gas development wells and one combination gas development and oil exploration well — to its Ninilchik pad.
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Protesters concerned about limits on the power of Alaska grand juries spent two days this week advocating for their cause on the Kenai Peninsula and beyond. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is asking the state legislature to hold hearings about the public concerns.
