A group of local surgeons has resubmitted paperwork seeking to open a surgery center in Kenai after having the idea denied by the state as a result of an incomplete application.

Kahtnu Ventures, LLC recently filed an application for a certificate of need with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for an 8,365 square foot, $9 million ambulatory surgical center. However, that application was denied for “untimely submission of information.”

Homes and businesses lost power this afternoon as another storm hit the central Kenai Peninsula.

About 2,500 customers lost power in the Kenai area when a transmission line to the Marathon substation went down, said Homer Electric Association spokesman Joe Gallagher. That outage was fixed in less than an hour.

Additional scattered outages affected customers near Sterling, Mackey Lake, Poppy Lane and Kenai. HEA was working to restore power to those homes throughout the afternoon.

As the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meets this week in Anchorage to discuss halibut and other fish management measures, newly released preliminary halibut catch limit recommendations by International Pacific Halibut Commission staff alarmed the halibut fishing industry in Homer.

The scene is a staple of many western movies.

Spurs rattle in the distance as a cowboy dismounts his horse.

The camera pans around the dry sand and mud.

A steer’s skull and horns poke up from the earth with a ghastly expression, a likely victim of the harsh conditions.

Whenever Bill Parham sees such a scene on his TV, he gets excited. Not about cowboy heroics, or the old west, but at the sight of the skull, bones and the process that — Hollywood aside — brought it to be.