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Flier for Bear Awareness and Electric Fencing Workshops. (Provided by Defenders of Wildlife)

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Local workshops to focus on managing bear attractants, electric fencing

Next week, the Defenders of Wildlife, in partnership with the Department of Fish and Game, will host a…

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Seniors Blaise Banks, Lucas Story and Spencer Co receive recognition in annual National Merit Scholarship program and stand next to the display of past Homer High awardees at Homer High School on Tuesday March 19.

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3 Homer High seniors recognized as National Merit Scholarship finalists

Three Homer High School seniors, Spencer Co, Blaise Banks and Lucas Story, recently received recognition as finalists in…

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School district committee builds multiple budget scenarios amid uncertain state funding

‘We don’t get to play around on this one’

Nikiski Republican Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, right, speaks against the Alaska Legislature’s Monday failure to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a comprehensive education bill during a press conference on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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‘The ball is now very clearly in their court’

Senate looks to House on next steps for education funding

The Alaska State Capitol on Friday, March 1, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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House passes bill altering wording of sex crimes against children

The bill is sponsored by Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, walks into the Alaska House of Representatives before consideration of a veto override regarding education funding on Monday, March 18, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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By 1 vote, lawmakers sustain Dunleavy veto of education bill

The bipartisan bill included $680 increase to per-student funding

Workers with Psenak Construction dump a load of armor rock on Monday, March 22, 2021, at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. Contractors worked to beef up the Ocean Drive Loop Seawall for the Homer Seawall Armor Rock Improvement Special Assessment District project. The almost $950,000 project reinforces the seawall by putting down filter fabric, bedding stone and armor rock at the toe of the wall. The armor rock breaks up energy from storm waves, but also keeps sand and gravel behind the wall from eroding. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Homer receives EPA award for seawall project

The award program recognizes ‘exceptional projects’ funded by the federal-state Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

A man fishes in the Kenai River on July 16, 2018, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion/file)

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Fish and Game announces series of closures and restrictions for king salmon fisheries

Cook Inlet king salmon stocks are experiencing a prolonged period of poor productivity, the department said

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The Sterling Highway crosses the Kenai River near the Russian River Campground on March 15, 2020, near Cooper Landing, Alaska.

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Russian River Campground closed for construction

The campground is expected to reopen on June 2

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Current Homer Port and Harbor sport fish grinding building on Fish Dock Road on the Homer Spit last Friday.

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City awarded grant to assist in replacement of harbor’s fish-grinding building

The City of Homer held a special meeting March 14 to amend the fiscal year 2024 capital budget…

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Virtual reality workforce development training offered at Kenai Peninsula College

The workshop targets young employees who may benefit from additional assistance to advancing education and careers

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic staff (left to right) Angie Holland, RN, Jane Rohr, Sonja Martin Young, CNM, Robin Holmes, MD and Cherie Bole, CMA provide an array of reproductive and sexual health services. Photo provided by KBFPC

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Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic Rec Room to hold weeklong sexual education course for teenagers

The workshops will include discussion topics on healthy relationships, consent and safety, family values and teen goals

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council authorizes sister city celebration task force

Deadline to apply is March 25