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by Channel 2 News staff Monday, October 12, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In a poll conducted by Channel 2 News, respondents were asked who they favor in the state small schools football championships. Here is the official question and results of the 165 people who voted. Who's your pick for the state small schools football championship? Kenai 38 % Soldotna  62 %    All polls conducted by Channel 2 News and KTUU.

by The Associated Press Saturday, January 16, 2010 KENAI, Alaska (AP) - A 24-year-old man who supplied the heroin that killed another man has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide. The Peninsula Clarion newspaper reported Friday that Thayr Watson is expected to receive six years in prison at his Feb. 10 sentencing. Watson was charged in the death of Jason McCafferty, whose lifeless body was found in the bathroom of a Soldotna grocery store in August 2008.

After ending last season with a state championship, the Service football team is also number one in the Alaska Sports Broadcasting Network preseason poll released on Monday.   Service returns seven starters on offense and five on defense from a team that went 10-0-1 last season.  Service and second ranked West begin the season by traveling to Hawaii.  The Cougars will take on Leilehua this Friday, while the Eagles face Punahou. Topping the medium-small schools poll is Soldotna.  The Stars won state titles in 2006, '07, '08, and 2010 before being knocked off in the semifinals last year.  So-Hi opens up by hosting Palmer, the third ranked team in large schools.

Eagles generally prefer lofty perches and the West Eagles’ football team is no different than their feathered namesake. They’re making themselves right at home atop the ASBN large schools poll. West takes the top spot for the fourth-straight week. The Eagles are 6-0 on the season after manhandling East High 35-3 over the weekend. The Eagles already qualify for the playoffs and now have their eyes set on the Cook Inlet Conference title. They face Dimond, ranked fourth, this week.

Two Soldotna women were arrested Thursday on attempted-murder charges after one of them allegedly lured her boyfriend into a knifepoint ambush by the other inside a car, according to Alaska State Troopers. A Friday AST dispatch says Soldotna troopers responded at about 9 a.m. Thursday to reports of the incident, which took place in Sterling. “Subsequent investigation found Diana Steger, 31, of Soldotna texted her boyfriend and made arrangements to pick him up, drive to the laundromat, and talk about their relationship,” troopers wrote.

by Channel 2 News staff Saturday, July 17, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska State Troopers are now calling the death of a man shot in a Soldotna neighborhood Friday a homicide. Troopers say 23-year-old Brendan McGee was shot and killed in the area of K-Beach Road and Andrews Avenue just before 2 p.m. Troopers had conducted a ground and helicopter search, but have not confirmed whether they are searching for a suspect.

For the second straight year, Kenai Peninsula rivals Kenai and Soldotna will face off for Alaska’s small-schools football championship. A year ago, the Kardinals upset the Stars behind the play of quarterback A.J. Hull. But in Week 8 of this season, Hall was sidelined due to a thigh injury -- and Kenai got blasted by Soldotna 52-8. In the playoffs, Hull has returned, generating spectacular results in a running-back/receiver role. But opinions vary on whether a complete Kenai arsenal will be enough.

Alaska State Troopers arrested a Soldotna man Thursday morning in an alleged hit-and-run collision with a woman, saying he ran over her ankle in her driveway. Troopers don't believe alcohol was a factor in the Marshall Street incident, which they were informed of at about 1:50 a.m. Thursday. AST spokesperson Beth Ipsen says the collision occurred after Frank Alto, 59, dropped off a passenger at a home across the road, then backed his 2001 Ford Taurus out to make a turn. “He was turning around and backed into (the woman's)

Anglers looking to catch a Kenai River king salmon are going to have to do it without bait. At 12:01 a.m. Monday morning July 25, an Emergency Order issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game went into effect that prohibits the use of bait in the Kenai River from the mouth to Skilak Lake.   "The guides are fine with that, as long as it helps get fish up the river and into the spawning beds," said Dave Goggia, President of the Kenai River...

ASAA Soccer Tournament--Chugiak & Eagle River High Schools Boys Quarterfinals Dimond def. Soldotna, 8-0 Colony def. Juneau, 2-1 in OT South def. Wasilla, 2-0 West def. North Pole, 3-0 Girls Quarterfinals Colony def. West Valley, 2-1 Soldotna vs. Grace Christian, 3-0 Service def. Thunder Mountain, 5-0 Dimond def. South, 3-1 in OT