Bob Oakes said he was in a bad mood when he attended a meeting between the Alaska Department of Transportation and owners of property bordering the Sterling Highway last Thursday.

A few days earlier, Oakes received a letter from the DOT inviting him to the meeting, which regarded the identification and removal of encroachments on state rights of way along the highway his business, CBC Rental & Supply, borders.

Oakes interpreted the letter to mean the sign advertising his business was illegal because it was on the state right of way and that he would have to relocate it.

Jim and Marie Bradford have lived in Kenai for over 45 years. Until Sunday, they had never been dipnetting. Their first attempt landed them 21 fish in a few hours at the mouth of the Kenai River.

"We're retired now, so we decided to try it," Marie Bradford, 62, said. "We're doing things we never got to do before because we always worked."

Sunday was a day full of dipnet rookies.

Buddy Eggebroten, from Anchorage, was also dipnetting at the mouth of the river. Sunday was the second day he had ever dipnetted.

Alaska-based independent Cook Inlet Energy has restarted a second shut-in oil well on the Osprey platform on the west side of Cook Inlet.

With the new well on line, Cook Inlet is now producing about 1,200 to 1,300 barrels per day of crude oil from two producing wells on the Osprey in addition to the two wells in the nearby onshore West McArthur River field, also owned and operated by Cook Inlet, company CEO David Hall said.

Two Friday night crashes on the Sterling Highway left four people dead, several seriously injured, and the road closed for almost 10 hours.

William Tillery, 46, and Angela Tillery, 45, both of Anchorage, died at the scene of the first accident. The second accident left 5-month-old Hayley Watt of Chugiak dead. Four-year-old Levi Watt, also of Chugiak, succumbed to injuries sustained during the second crash and died at Central Peninsula Hospital Saturday evening.