* Gabriel Curtis Rein is the first baby of 1993 to be born at South Peninsula Hospital, weighing in at 8 pounds, 2 ounces and 20 inches long.
* The Kenai Peninsula School Board votes 6-1 to allow district health teachers to use the controversial sex-ed book "Changing Bodies, Changing Lives," as reference material in their classrooms.
* Homer police investigate allegations that a 29-year-old Homer man had sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy who was among nine teenagers the subject befriended by offering them beer, tequila and marijuana.
-- from the issue of Jan. 7, 1993
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