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Emilie Springer/ Homer News Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies day camp staff members Emma Latsch, Marissa Swartley, Ava Daley, Cece Donegan and Jasmine Lurus on Monday.

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Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies begins summer camp series

Day camps in Homer and multi-day camps across Kachemak Bay

An Epidemiology Bulletin titled “Drowning Deaths in Alaska, 2016-2021” published Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Screenshot)

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Health officials say Alaska leads nation in drowning deaths, urge safe practices

A majority of non-occupational Alaska drownings occur in relation to boating, both for recreation and for subsistence

The Anchor River Inn, photographed on Saturday, June 3, 2023, is being remodeled in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Anchor River Inn to get fresh start

New owners hope to begin operating later this year

A young Virginia opossum was spotted outside the City of Homer Clerk's Office window on Thursday, June 1, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Renee Krause

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ADF&G: More opossums captured, others still on the loose

The new opossums are most likely the offspring of Grubby, a Virginia possum captured last month

Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion Tyson Cox references a sheet illustrating the rotation of seats on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Soldotna, Alaska.

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Soldotna requests changes to planning commission ordinance

The measure is being considered next week

Homer City Council and representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard recognize Homer as a Coast Guard City at Homer City Hall on May 22, 2023. (Photo provided by Homer city manager)

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Homer designated ‘Coast Guard City’

The designation was given May 22 in a proclamation

VFW Post 10221 member Eric Henley performs the battlefield cross during a Memorial Day service held at the Anchor Point Kallman Cemetery on Monday, May 29, 2023 in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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VFW honors the fallen

Post 10221 holds Memorial Day ceremonies in Homer, Anchor Point, Ninilchik

Attendees affix poppies to wreaths during a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 29, 2023, at Leif Hanson Memorial Park in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘We remember’

Servicemembers honored at Memorial Day ceremonies in Kenai

courtesy photo Paul Banks kindergarten and first grade teacher Jennifer Reinhart

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Paul Banks educator receives a runner-up award for Alaska Teacher of the Year

Jennifer Reinhart teachers kindergarten and first grade

Trenten Dodson (Photo provided by Kenai Watershed Forum)

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Dodson to head Watershed Forum

He has a significant background in fisheries management and habitat restoration

Alaska SeaLife Center staff treat a harbor seal pup at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Kaiti Grant/Alaska SeaLife Center)

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3 harbor seal pups admitted to SeaLife Center

All three came from the Copper River

The SPARC building is photographed on Saturday, May 27, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman / Homer News

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SPARC awarded funding for new floor

The facility’s current flooring, constructed from used materials, was always meant to be a temporary solution

“Grubby” the Virginia opossum is captured by Homer Police officer Taylor Crowder on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Homer Police Department

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Grubby saved

Virginia opossum taken in by Anchorage zoo