...second, with 165 points, and Soldotna fell to third at 120 points. Bowling Thursday, seniors from the Kenai and Soldotna centers said they badly wanted to take the plaque from Nikiski. They'd had it long enough, they said. "It's senior...

...Tackle - Jonathon Alexander, Soldotna; Daniel Rosin, Soldotna.Guard - Duncan Brewer, Kenai; Jarrett Urban, Soldotna.Center - Gavin Larson, Soldotna.Long snapper - Brad Smithwick, Kenai.Kicker - Cameron Grothe, Soldotna.Return specialist...

...Tackle - Jonathon Alexander, Soldotna; Daniel Rosin, Soldotna.Guard - Duncan Brewer, Kenai; Jarrett Urban, Soldotna.Center - Gavin Larson, Soldotna.Long Snapper - Josh Tupou, Thunder Mountain.Kicker - Cameron Grothe, Soldotna.Return...

...Wasilla donor centers will soon be closing. "The Soldotna center's last day is Jan. 16, and the Wasilla's branch...Large said. Since 2007, three employees have run the Soldotna center: Manager Sarah Hardman and technicians Amanda Best...

When the best laid plans of moms and pre-schoolers at Ben Franklin Academy go astray, it?s ?Pizza Boys to the rescue!? According to Amber Uhls, a teacher at the Ben Franklin Academy (BFA) in Kenai, it all began as a nice idea by one of the parents to provide lunch for her three boys and feeling generous thought it would be a good opportunity to throw a pizza party for the whole school, ?So she gave us a check to pay for the pizza but when we went to pick them up, a local pizza establishment refused to take a check that wasn?t from us. So there we were with a bunch of some 30 hungry pre-schoolers and no pizza, so we decided to give Pizza Boys a call, and they came through for us like super-heroes. They brought the pizzas to us here free of charge so the kids could get started eating and then drove all the way out to the Agrium plant in Nikiski to pick up a check from the mom while the kids were enjoying their pizza party. It?s really great to have people like that in our community who will go above and beyond their call of duty and we all really want to say THANK YOU Pizza Boys for being our super-heroes and saving our pizza party,? said Uhls.

The Kenai and Kasilof river king salmon fisheries are in their final throes, but surging numbers of fish may make for fishing that is as hot as any day this summer until the closure at midnight Tuesday.

Katie Evans says she was probably 12 years old when she found her mom?s old twelve string guitar in the closet and started playing around with it and writing songs. Hobo Jim, Alaska?s official balladeer, says Katie was more like 8 years old when she started coming up on stage with him to sing the Iditarod song because she was such a cute little kid, ?Then one day she surprised me and said can I sing something instead of the Iditarod song, so I said sure and she sang one of my songs called Song Bird and then she started taking vocal lessons and learning the guitar and the next time I heard her she was actually singing really good. Then she started writing music and folks started really liking her songs, so she told me she really wanted to do a record, so we took her down to Nashville and put some great musicians with her and the result of all that is here tonight with the release of her first CD, which she has a lot of reason to be proud of, it?s a great CD and she did a wonderful job. One of the things about your first CD is that it becomes a reference point for the rest of a musician?s life and Katie has set that bench mark really high with her first CD and I hope folks will check it out,? Hobo told the Dispatch.

Leslie M. Seaman and Ralph R. Hemphill III were married in an afternoon ceremony Saturday, July 7, 2007, at Spirit Lake in Kenai. The groom's brother, Jeremiah Hemphill, officiated.

Members of the Cook Inlet Soccer Club Velocity White 96 Girls team included guest players and Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club (KPSC) athletes, Logan Tuttle, front row, far left, and Kylee Wolfe, front row, far right. Tuttle and Wolfe play on the KPSC U-12 Sweetfeet team, coached by Dan Tuttle. The team was in Minnesota on July 21 competing for the International Schwan's USA Cup trophy for the 11-girls age group. The tournament includes more than 800 teams. The White 96 Girls team won all of its preliminary games to guarantee them a spot in the quarter finals. They won the quarter finals, semi-finals and the championship. In the semifinal game, Wolfe scored the only goal. In the championship game, Wolfe and Tuttle each scored in the 2-0 victory. The team also placed first without being scored on while competing in the playoff bracket. Tuttle is the daughter of Dan and Denise Tuttle of Nikiski. Wolfe is the daughter of Pete and Jamee Wolfe of Soldotna.

Samantha Jones displays the U.S. flag Thursday night during opening ceremonies for the National Barrel Horse Association AK 01 District Finals in Soldotna.