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07/13/11 How can Anchor Point residents tap into natural gas being produced in their backyard and flowing north to Anchorage?
07/13/11 An architect with roots on the lower Kenai Peninsula is part of the team selected to design the new Pratt Museum building. Tom Livingston, of Livingston Slone of Anchorage, grew up in Anchor Point and frequently visits Homer.
06/29/11 Gov. Sean Parnell on Tuesday announced cuts he has made to the state's capital and operating budgets. Not funded is the $10 million natural gas pipeline that is proposed to run from Anchor Point to Homer and Kachemak City.
06/01/11 Alaska State Troopers on Sunday arrested a Wasilla man during a U.S. Coast Guard safety check of a fishing vessel off Anchor Point.
05/23/11 With Benjamin Dean Maxon filling in temporarily, four candidates, including Maxon, have applied to become chief of the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Medical Service Area.
05/19/11 With Benjamin Dean Maxon filling in temporarily, four candidates, including Maxon, have applied to become chief of the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Medical Service Area.
05/05/11 Cook Inletkeeper, the Homer based environmental organization, received two Alaska Clean Water Actions grants. A $32,724 grant helps support monitoring Bishop's Beach and two Anchor Point beaches for bacteria levels.
03/03/11 Alaska State Troopers are looking for information about a man wanted in a gun assault on two Anchor Point men Tuesday night. According to a press release, troopers said a man followed two Anchor Point men driving home from Kenai to their home.
02/25/11 A allegedly drunk Anchor Point man flipped the car he was driving, ejecting a female passenger, and fled from the scene Sunday night, according to a report Thursday from the Alaska State Troopers.
02/21/11 Calling the Anchor Point-Homer natural gas line the biggest economic development he's seen in his tenure, Homer City Manager Walt Wrede gave an update on the project Tuesday at the luncheon meeting of the Homer Chamber of Commerce.
02/14/11 There will be a scheduled power outage from 11 a.m. to noon today in the Anchor Point-Ninilchik area. Homer Electric Association will be replacing electronic communication equipment that allows the company to monitor the electric system remotely.
02/11/11 As talk continues about gas lines, bullet lines and spurs, it's a 3,200-foot pipeline in Anchor Point that best symbolizes the strange state of Alaska natural gas in 2011.
01/14/11 There's a spectacular view of Cook Inlet and the mountains to the west near Mile 153 of the Sterling Highway, between Happy Valley and Anchor Point. If the bluff gets much closer, there also will be an excellent view of the beach, hundreds of feet below.
01/12/11 A two-vehicle crash Jan. 5 near Cooper Landing killed an Anchor Point woman. Catherine Williams, 60, died of her injuries at the scene. The crash at Mile 61.9 on the Sterling Highway near the access to Kelly and Peterson Lakes closed the highway for at least seven hours.
12/22/10 Alaska State Troopers are investigating ongoing thefts of equipment and supplies for the Anchor Point to Ninilchik natural gas pipeline project. Contractors working for Enstar have reported numerous thefts going back to the start of the project in late October and early November.
10/27/10 Republican Party candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Miller canceled a planned appearance today at the Anchor River Inn in Anchor Point. Miller will not visit the lower Kenai Peninsula today and will stay in Anchorage.
09/28/10 There was a letter that appeared on the internet in January of 2010 that is tied to the founding of Benedict in 1886. It is a letter from a retired sailor named Stan Harrington making his home with his family in Anchor Point, Alaska.
09/22/10 Alaska State Troopers last week charged an inmate for third-degree assault after he allegedly threatened a witness while using a phone at the Homer Jail. Richard M. Russell, 31, of Anchor Point, was charged with third-degree assault, a felony.
09/15/10 An Anchor Point man suspected to be involved with his girlfriend in at least a dozen Anchor Point burglaries going back to last December has pleaded guilty to two charges.
09/08/10 An Anchor Point fisherman who troopers say launched logs, trees and other debris down the Anchor River in hopes of sabotaging a state Fish and Game Department weir has been charged with felony assault with a "dangerous instrument."
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