Riley Board
Senior ReporterRiley 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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Alaska’s four-year statewide transportation plan has received partial approval from federal agencies, with some exclusions. Most major Kenai Peninsula highway projects, including the Cooper Landing Bypass, haven’t been affected, but the state is still waiting to hear about outside funding that will affect the timeline of that project.
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Alaska’s four-year statewide transportation plan has received partial approval from federal agencies, with some exclusions. Most major Kenai Peninsula highway projects, including the Cooper Landing Bypass, haven’t been affected, but the state is still waiting to hear about outside funding that will affect the timeline of that project.
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A conversation with Jessica Schultz, the new executive director of CARTS, the Central Area Rural Transit System.
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Two April art shows in Kenai will display more than 200 pieces from students and a local photographer. Plus, a conversation with the new leadership behind the Central Peninsula’s public transit service.
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Residents of Cooper Landing protested the lease of a one-acre parcel to a company that will batch concrete for the Cooper Landing Bypass project. After the Borough Assembly approved the lease, residents called on the mayor to veto it, but he declined to do so on Tuesday, saying he'd meet with residents to discuss safety.
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A Homer-based nonprofit completes work protecting wetlands around the Cooper Landing Bypass project construction area. Plus, the Cooper Landing community asks the mayor to veto a concrete batch plant lease authorized in the community, and the Borough Assembly approves a project to test out heat pumps in rural schools.
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In a board meeting Monday and joint session with the Borough Assembly Tuesday, school board members continued to discuss a tentative budget that accounts for no increased funding from the state. “We’re hopeful that this isn’t the budget that’s gonna last,” Board Vice President Jason Tauriainen said.
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The tribe hosted an information-gathering meeting Thursday to learn what parents and community members would want in a K-2 charter school.
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The Kenaitze Indian Tribe hosts a meeting about its plan to propose a charter school. And a study of the Homer Harbor expansion project may get funding after experiencing cuts last year, thanks to President Joe Biden’s budget.
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Federal education officials said in a Wednesday letter that Alaska has failed to resolve the way it reduced funding to certain school districts when distributing COVID relief funds. They say the state owes almost $30 million to districts, and is now considered a high-risk grantee for its non-compliance.