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Homer Glacier Kings play the Anchorage Comets in the championship game at Kevin Bell Arena in Homer on March 3.
    Homer hosts 2024 statewide youth hockey tournament
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    The Homer Hockey Association hosted the 2024 Alaska State Hockey Association 14UA tournament held at Kevin Bell Arena on March…

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    Ninilchik's Austin White puts down a two-handed dunk against the Aniak Halfbreeds Wednesday at the Class 1A state basketball tournament at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Clarion)
    Kenai Peninsula Region III Basketball Tournament begins Thursday
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    The Kenai Peninsula Region III basketball tournament takes place at the Homer High School this weekend starting at 10 a.m….

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    Participants begin the 2023 Bike Epic event at McNeil Canyon Elementary School in Homer, Alaska.  Photo provided by Chuck Lindsay with credit to former Homer resident Marc Romano.
    Multisport Epic event returns to the Caribou Trails...
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    On Saturday, March 9, the Homer Cycling Club is hosting the ninth running of the multisport 50-100K Bike Epic event…

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    The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Science Conference to take place this...
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is hosting the 10th Kachemak Science Conference March 17-20 at Kachemak Bay Campus….

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Homer women get instruction in self defense from the Homer Police Department at Homer Middle School on Saturday, March 2, 2024 in Homer, Alaska.
    Women learn self-defense skills at free workshop
    By Emilie Springer • March 6, 2024 1:30 am

    The Homer Police Department sponsored the event for the fifth year

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    Photo provided by Tela Bacher
Tela Bacher (55kg) with fellow 2004 Olympian Usukhbayar Gelegjamts (120kg) square off during a Wrestle Like a Girl Sports Diplomacy Exchange in Mongolia in April 2023.
    Promoting girls wrestling at home and across the...
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 2:30 am

    Long-time Homer wrestling coach steps into lead role at middle school

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    Archaeologist gives author’s talk on recently released book on Aleutians
    Archaeologist gives author’s talk on recently released book...
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    Archaeologist Debra Corbett gave an author’s talk on her recently released book “Culture and Archaeology of the Ancestral Unangax/Aleut of…

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    Photo provided by Tela Bacher
Homer Middle School’s Flora Fitzpatrick competes with a Kenai student at the borough wrestling tournament in Seward last weekend.
    Middle school wrestlers compete in Seward
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    Homer Middle School wrestlers took second place at the borough meet at Seward Middle School last weekend. The team will…

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    Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News
Homer freshman Tristyn Larrick competes in the one foot high kick on Saturday, Feb. 17 during the Kachemak Bay Winter Games at Homer High School.
    Homer hosts Kachemak Bay Traditional Games
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    The Kachemak Bay Traditional Games event held at Homer High School on Feb. 17 and 18 saw more than 200…

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    Sweetgale Meadworks and Cider House, seen here Oct. 20, 2020 on Main Street in Homer, Alaska, serves berry meads and ciders using local fruits. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Homer brewers sue state of over restrictions in...
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    Anchorage’s Zip Kombucha is the third plaintiff

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    Photo by Emilie Springer
Homer Middle School students Hunter Gauthier, Fletcher Darr and Amakah Stineff conduct the oil spill in a pan experiment in Ms. Booz’s 8th grade science class on Feb. 22.
    Area students participate in prevention and response lectures,...
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    The events come ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill

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    Photo by Emilie Springer
Fireweed Academy 4th grade students Kai Gregoire and Eli Busche-Vold show their ASTE award in the school hallway last week.
    Fireweed Academy students recognized for podcast in statewide...
    By Emilie Springer • February 28, 2024 1:30 am

    Two Fireweed Academy students this month won a statewide audio technology award for their work creating a podcast.

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    Representative Sarah Vance addresses Homer constituents about current legislative priorities, primarily SB 140, at a town hall meeting at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer on Saturday, February 17, 2024. (Emilie Springer/Homer News}
    Vance town hall focuses on education
    By Emilie Springer • February 21, 2024 1:30 am

    Most community comments were related to creating a stable, permanent increase to per-student funding

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