Nikolaevsk News

Fire Kachemak Emergency Services responded to one medical emergency call during the week of April 29 - May 5th.

The village of Nikolaevsk, Alaska, is seen Saturday, June 5, 2004. A group of Old Believers came to Nikolaevsk on the Kenai Peninsula near Homer in the late 1960s, built the village themselves and worked in the lucrative commercial fishing industry.

It's been almost 17 years since lower Kenai Peninsula residents spoke in informal sessions for the Alaska Communities of Memory Project, but now those recorded interviews have come into the digital age in a new online format.

Now in its 21st year, the Kenai Peninsula Writers' Contest has been going on long enough that writers who might have first won the contest in elementary school are now winning as adults -- like Hannah Heimbuch.

The latest installment of Alaska reality TV will feature the small, isolated communities of Russian Old Believers that call the Kenai Peninsula home.