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Council to consider funding for community rec center

A public hearing will be held on the ordinance in July

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Homer resolution supporting borough bed tax resolution fails

The Homer City Council voted against supporting the proposed borough bed tax at a June 17 special meeting

Pride flags adorn the upper balcony on Kachemak Bay Campus's Pioneer Hall during the Homer Pride Liberation Celebration held in the parking lot on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘Love, not hate’

The Homer Pride Liberation Celebration advocates unity within community

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Homer, Seldovia to celebrate summer solstice

Events will be held starting June 20

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Reeling in good vibes

Youth anglers participated in two king salmon fisheries during first week of June

Assembly member Cindy Ecklund speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly shuts down ordinances that would tax tobacco, fund child care

Ordinance 2024-15 sought to combat the lack of affordable, accessible and quality child care in the borough

Kenai Peninsula Borough Purchasing and Contracting Director John Hedges answers questions from KPB Assembly members on a proposed bond issuance for improvements to the South Peninsula Hospital during the Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. Screenshot.

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Borough assembly to consider hospital bond vote

A public hearing on Ordinance 2024-12 will be held on June 18

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Homer Pride to hold Liberation events through June

The nonprofit honors Pride month and Juneteenth in joint celebration

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Psychology professor accepts KBC campus directorship

Brian Partridge is a longtime KBC faculty member and previously the Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Services

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‘May the spirit of Memorial Day remind us of the price of freedom’

Memorial Day services were held on the lower Kenai Peninsula on Monday

Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Director Robert Ruffner answers questions posed by borough assembly members on Ordinance 2024-11 during the Lands Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Screenshot)

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Borough assembly introduces ordinance to amend gravel pit regs

Ordinance 2024-11 would amend borough code Chapter 21.29 to include regulations on quarries

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Best Bets

Scottish poet Thomas Campbell once wrote, “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” As…

The Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference is held at Kachemak Bay Campus starting on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Writing in a wounded world

2024 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference grapples with the purpose of writing about wonder in a fractured world