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Kenai City Manager Paul Ostrander sits inside Kenai City Hall on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ostrander to leave City of Kenai in January

Ostrander has served as the city manager since 2017

Efrosinia Yakunin, a Nikolaevsk parent, testifies in support of a charter school for the area during a board of education meeting on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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2 groups pursue peninsula charter school options

There are currently four charter schools operating as part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

A voting booth for the Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Homer elections at Cowles Council Chambers on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Charlie Menke/ Homer News)

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Homer voters come out for low-key election day

Voters weigh in on important borough and city issues.

COVID-19. (Image courtesy CDC)

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27 new deaths reported; COVID cases, hospitalizations down overall

For the period of Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, 554 new COVID-19 cases were reported

Elementary school students line up to touch a salmon during the annual egg take demonstration at the Anchor River on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Anchor Point, Alaska. Students leave the egg take event with fertilized salmon eggs to raise into fry throughout the year through the Salmon in the Classroom project hosted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Sport Fish Division. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News file)

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Kids to learn about fish life cycle

Alaska Department of Fish and Game representatives will conduct presentations at coho salmon egg takes on Oct. 11

Sir James Adcox, left, leads Silas Barnes, Manoah Barnes and Nehemiah Barnes through the Literary Haunted House at the Kenai Community Library on Oct. 30, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Central peninsula libraries host haunted houses, scary storytimes, seasonal crafts

It’s all about Halloween at Kenai and Soldotna libraries

Fat Bear Week bracket (Photo courtesy Katmai National Park & Preserve)

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Fat bears face off

Voters decide on the heftiest Katmai brown bear

The Kevin Bell Arena ice rink nears completion on Sept. 29, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. The Homer Hockey Association announced Wednesday that the arena was closed indefinitely due to insufficient insurance coverage. (Photo by Charlie Menke/ Homer News)

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Homer hockey arena closed due to insufficient insurance

The board of directors discovered that their liability insurance policy is inactive

From left, Becca Satathite, Joshua Thompson, Spencer McLean and Emma McLean waive signs in support of Proposition 3 at the intersection of the Kenai Spur and Sterling Highways on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Blustery weather, average turnout mark municipal election day on central peninsula

City council, board of education and assembly seats and propositions were on the ballot

The new Homer Police Station, as seen Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. Members of the Homer Police Department officially moved into the building on Thursday. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Homer teen arrested after school shooting threat

The Homer Police Department said in a Tuesday press release that they received a tip from the Federal…

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council discusses sidewalk ordinance

The Cowles Council Chambers were almost full on Monday as the Sept. 26 Homer City Council regular meeting…

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Officer Taylor Davis stands in a wooded area near what police described as an active crime scene. Davis and another officer asked for people to stay away from the area until further notice. No further details were offered from the officers as of 11 a.m.

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No arrests made as Juneau death investigation continues

Shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday that a woman’s body was found

Joel Jackson, president of the Organized Village of Kake and a featured presenter at the Government-to-Government Violence Against Women Tribal Consultation in Anchorage on Wednesday, speaks during a memorial service at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Friday, June 7, 2019. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire File)

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‘It is not the past’: Conference confronts high rate of violence against Indigenous woman

“It comes at an especially important moment.”