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A banner at Homer City Hall identifies the building as a voting precinct. Early voting runs at city hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Friday and Monday in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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City elections: Candidates respond to questions

As part of its continuing coverage of Homer city elections, the Homer News asked candidates for mayor and…

Landslide debris surrounds part of Lowell Point Road on Friday, June 3, 2022, in Seward, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Feds, state to reimburse borough for Lowell Point landslide response

The borough assembly voted Tuesday to accept the funds

Joel Caldwell shows off the new Tecnam Traveller on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Aviation ready to take off

The local airline begins scheduled commuter service Oct. 3

Registered pharmacist Sapana Patel holds a bottle of Monkeypox vaccine at a Pop-Up Monkeypox vaccination site on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

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State expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility

More than 450 first doses of the vaccine have been administered in Alaska as of Monday

Tyler Cordes. (Photo courtesy Homer Police)

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Man charged in 2021 vehicle death

Police seek whereabouts of Tyler Cordes, charged with murder, manslaughter in death of Drew Brown.

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Homer city election: Introducing the candidates

In the pause between the state and federal August primary and the November general election, the city of…

As about 200 people watch, the 19th annual Burning Basket, "Breathe," catches fire on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Just breathe

On a dreary, drizzly late-summer evening, Homer’s annual Burning Basket lit up the Spit on Sunday.

Work on a new sidewalk and widening of the street is almost done on Main Street north of Pioneer Avenue on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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City Council discusses transportation, consitutional convention

The Homer City Council expresses deep concern at the proposal to hold a constitutional convention

A worker with Lakeshore Glass installs new windows in one of the South Peninsula Hospital labor and delivery rooms to create a negative-pressure environment for COVID-19 infected patients. "To date, the negative pressure rooms were only in Acute Care and ER, and any deliveries by a Covid positive mother happened in a negative pressure room in the inpatient section of the hospital," SPH Public Information Officer Derotha Ferraro said. (Photo by Derotha Ferrator/South Peninsula Hospital.)

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Bivalent boosters available

CDC raises alert level for peninsula

A “Vote Here” sign is seen at the City of Kenai building on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Kenai, Alaska. (Clarion file)

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Special election for mayor could take place as early as January

A special election is necessitated by Charlie Pierce’s resignation — as his current term does not expire until…

Lance Mackey sits with his lead dogs Larry, right, and Maple after crossing the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 18, 2009, in Nome, Alaska, to win his third Iditarod in a row. Mackey, a four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner and one of mushing’s most colorful and accomplished champions who also suffered from health and drug issues, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, his father and kennel announced on Facebook. He was 52. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

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Cancer claims 4-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey

Officials with the world’s most famous sled dog race said Iditarod Nation was in mourning

Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, accompanied by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and family members, speaks to the media right after the ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Mary Peltola sworn in as 1st Alaska Native in Congress

“To have a seat at the table is different,” Peltola told The Associated Press in an interview Monday

2022 gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce walks in the 65th annual Soldotna Progress Days Parade on July 23 in Soldotna . (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly statement: Borough investigated harassment complaint against Pierce

The allegations were found to be ‘credible’, the borough said Sunday