Central Peninsula Hospital hopes to prepare residents of the Kenai Peninsula by offering a free drive thru flu shot clinic for adults. It will be held this afternoon from 3:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Shots will be administered on a first come, first serve basis, while supplies last.

Today’s forum features the race for Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat. Congressman Don Young faces challenger Alyse Galvin in a candidate forum at 11:30 a.m. on KSRM 920AM and streamed online at www.radiokenai.com. The candidate forum will be moderated by Merrill Sikorski and aired without commercial breaks.

According to Johni Blankenship, Borough Clerk, there were 4,513 absentee, question and special needs ballots tabulated. They also updated the results for the 6 by mail precincts. Only ballots that were postmarked on or before election day and received in Tuesday’s mail will be added to the mix.

If positive COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the central peninsula over the next few days, there is a likelihood schools will shift to 100% Remote Learning. KPBSD will give as much advance notice as possible, and if this happens, the 100% Remote Learning will be for a minimum of one week to aid in your planning, and to assess community spread and risk.

230 are residents in 29 communities. Anchorage reported the most with 128 cases. Kenai reported six. Sterling reported two. Seward and Soldotna both reported one each.

Without ample time to conduct contact tracing, positive cases trending upward, and out of an abundance of precaution, Moose Pass and Seward schools will shift to 100% Remote Learning beginning Friday, October 9, 2020.

Online fans joining in the celebration of these bears corpulent bodies voted bear 747 as the 2020 Fat Bear Week champion.

The outage was reported at 7:17 p.m., and at approximately 8:26 p.m. Homer Electric Association Operations crews were able to isolate the outage to a section of power line between Six Mile and
MacDonald Spit.

Two Memorandum of Agreements were acknowledged and agreed to at Monday night’s Kenai Peninsula School District’s board of education meeting. Both were acknowledgements of teacher evaluations being affected because of the COVID-19 pandemic.