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The goal of the project is to restore the creek, after historic mining reshaped it and damaged the habitat. An earlier phase was completed in 2007, and the section phase is underway now.
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The $270,000 grant will allow the Alaska Department of Transportation to do a preventative surfacing of the runway at the state-run airport.
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When schools in Alaska drop below 10 students, they lose full state funding and can be shut down. Today, the peninsula's smallest schools are in the clear — but it hasn't always been that way.
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Cindy McKibben is the new principal at the small schools in the unincorporated communities of Hope and Cooper Landing.
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The race, which includes uphill bike and foot races, is run by the Kenai Mountains Turnagain Arm Heritage Area. Athletes can compete in an 11-mile uphill bike race to the end of Palmer Creek Road, a half-marathon road race or an 8.5-mile up-and-down foot race.
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Hydraulic mining during Hope’s gold rush brought the town riches and residents.But local marine life was not so fortunate. Mining activity fundamentally…