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Booths at the Homer Rotary Health Fair on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Homer High School Commons in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Health Fair returns to in-person

People who attended the Homer Rotary Club Health Fair last Saturday might have walked out of Homer High…

Jamie Hoy, a Montana State University student who is participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchorage’s, “Semester by the Bay” program, gives a presentation on orca whales at the Marine Mammal Biology Symposium on Friday, Nov. 4 in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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Semester by the Bay students present work

A room full of young minds all interested in solving the same problems, and loving the same parts…

A map showing tracts available as part of an upcoming state oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet. (Map via Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas)

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State to begin accepting Cook Inlet oil and gas lease bids next month

Bidding will open Dec. 12 and close on Dec. 28 at 4 p.m.

Steller Secondary School seniors gather in the sunshine outside their school on Oct. 27. From left are Pauline Mallari, Samantha Antonio and Zane Barber, all bound for college. They all enjoy the Alaska outdoors lifestyle, but they all expressed lack of confidence in Alaska as a place for young people to build careers. Demographic data shows that young adults are leaving Alaska, contributing to nine straight years of net outmigration. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

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Angst over youth outmigration emerges in Alaska campaign rhetoric and debates

University funding, career prospects and lifestyle amenities are factors cited as important to young Alaskans pondering their futures

The Homer Public Library as seen on Aug. 18, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (File photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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Library Advisory Board to consider petition to move LGBQT+ children’s books

Update: This story has been updated to include a list of LGQBT+ books the petitioners have asked to…

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, waves a campaign flag on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. Vance was part of a group supporting Republican Party candidates including Heath Smith, running for State Senate District C, Kelly Tshibaka, running for U.S. Senate, and Nick Begich III, running for U.S. Congress. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Stevens, Vance lead in preliminary results.

If results hold, incumbents could win on first round of ranked-choice voting.

Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion Larry Opperman waves a sign in support of Alaska House candidate Justin Ruffridge at the intersection of the Kenai Spur and Sterling highways on Tuesday in Soldotna.

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Enthusiasm, busy polls mark local Election Day

Higher voter turnout and high spirits among candidates marked Election Day on the central peninsula. Residents throughout Kenai…

Former Alaska Gov. Bill Sheffield smiles as he holds a The Anchorage Times newspaper in his Capitol office in Juneau, Alaska, on Aug. 5, 1985, after he survived an impeachment effort during July and August 1985. A statement provided by friends says he died Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at his home in Anchorage. He was 94. Sheffield was governor from 1982 to 1986. (Brian Wallace/The Juneau Empire via AP, File)

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Bill Sheffield, former Alaska governor, dies at age 94

Sheffield was governor from 1982 to 1986

People visit at the Loved & Lost Memorial Bench on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska, for a memorial for Anesha “Duffy” Murnane and the dedication of the bench. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Calderwood to be extradited to Alaska

Man accused of killing Anesha “Duffy” Murnane pleads guilty to Utah charges, will come back to Alaska.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council expands permitted uses in zoning districts.

Change would allow more dwelling units in some areas without applying for conditional use permit.

Candidates for Alaska State Senate District C Gary Stevens, on screen, left, and Heath Smith, on screen, right, participate remotely in a forum held at the Soldotna Public Library on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Southern peninsula State Senate candidates face off in Monday forum

Incumbent Gary Stevens and challengers Heath Smith and Walter Jones are all running for the seat

Photo via Alaska State Troopers Ronald Dean Beyering.

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Man wanted in Funny River shooting, fire remains at large

Troopers located a vehicle associated with Beyering

Selma, a squirrel, squeaks through the Paul Banks Elementary Halloween Parade on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)

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‘What I like about Halloween is I get candy’

A Homer Halloween features scarecrow contests, Pioneer Avenue trick or treating and school costume parades