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The Cowles Council Chambers are seen in Homer City Hall on Pioneer Avenue in April 2025 in Homer, Alaska. (Homer News file photo)

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Council accepts grant for library security grille

The Rasmuson Foundation awarded the Homer Public Library $19,000 in grant funding for the installation of a new…

The Homer Public Library. File photo

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Library updates privacy policy to address electronic communications

A resolution amending the Homer Public Library’s privacy policy was passed Monday during the regular Homer City Council…

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of at six Cook Inlet lease sales that Congress has mandated by held between now and 2032. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

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Trump administration sets terms for upcoming oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet

The ‘Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale,’ scheduled for March, would follow a series of…

The KBBI Public Radio office and studio is on Kachemak Way, as seen in this photo taken July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Kenai Peninsula public radio receives grant funding

The Alaska Community Foundation fund recently awarded $2.9 million in grants to public media stations statewide, including in…

Grant Aviation’s Cessna 208B EX Grand Caravan is pictured at the Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, March 4, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Federal mandate orders Grant Aviation to cut flights

Grant Aviation will cut 10% of its flights between Kenai and Anchorage by Nov. 14.

Members of the American Legion Post 16, VFW Post 10221, Civil Air Patrol and Homer Emblem Club #350, as well as local veterans or current military members, march in a parade through Homer, Alaska, in honor of Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘To serve the nation’s cause’

A parade was held in Homer on Tuesday in honor of Veterans Day.

Community members attending the Title 21 Open House hosted by the City of Homer share their ideas on proposed zoning district changes on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. Photo courtesy Karyn DeCino

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City hosts zoning code community meeting

A community open house centered on updates currently underway to Homer’s Title 21 zoning and planning code was…

A graph compares the school meal prices from five of the major school districts in Alaska. Courtesy of the Kenai Peninsula Board of Education

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Board of Education moves to increase school meal prices

In January, the cost of adult meals and elementary student lunches will increase.

Crews work on the botanical garden on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Pratt Museum names permanent executive director

Whitney Harness has been serving as interim co-executive director since February.

Participants jump into Resurrection Bay during the 2019 Polar Bear Jump in Seward<ins>, Alaska</ins>. Photo by Brice Habeger, courtesy of the American Cancer Society

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Registration open for 41st annual Polar Bear Jump

The Seward event, scheduled for January, will raise money for cancer research and patients.

The cast of Kenai Central High School’s upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” pose for a photo on Nov. 6, 2025. The play will open on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. Photo courtesy of Travis Lawson

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Kenai students prepare to open ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

The play will premiere Friday at Kenai Central High School, with additional showings the following weekend.

The Challenger Learning Center is seen here in Kenai, Alaska on Sept. 10, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai City Council terminates Challenger Learning Center’s lease

Kenai City Council adopted a resolution to terminate the Challenger Learning Center’s lease

State of Alaska Department of Law logo. Photo courtesy of the State of Alaska Department of Law

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Homer man sentenced for sexual abuse of minor

Michael Robert Fisher was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for crimes committed in 2012.