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Kenai Peninsula Education Association President LaDawn Druce (left) and committee Chair Jason Tauriainen (right) participate in the first meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Four Day School Week Ad Hoc Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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4-day school week committee talks purpose of potential change, possible calendar

The change could help curb costs on things like substitutes, according to district estimates

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Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS) trainees work with oil booms on the Homer Spit on April 11.

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Rehearsing for a spill

Homer hosts Alyeska Pipeline Ship Escort Response Vessel System training

Joel Caldwell shows off the new Tecnam Traveller on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Kenai, Alaska. Kenai Aviation has since added two more Tecnam Travellers to its fleet. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Aviation adds 3rd plane to commuter service, readies for busy summer schedule

Kenai Aviation plans to increase its schedule to include 18 flights a day running seven days a week

Principal Doug Waclawski addresses incoming 2024 cohort of Homer Mariners at step-up day.  Photo by Emilie Springer

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Homer and Anchor Point students tour their new schools for April step-up day

Homer middle and high schools hosted a “step-up” day to introduce incoming seventh graders and freshmen ahead of…

A studded tire is attached to a very cool car in the parking lot of the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Studded tire removal deadline extended

A 15-day extension was issued via emergency order for communities above the 60 degrees latitude line

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Homer High School and Soldotna High School gather for a collaborative jazz band concert on Wednesday April 10 in the Mariner Theatre.

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Homer and Soldotna high schools collaborate in jazz band concert in the Mariner Theatre

The Soldotna High School and Homer High School jazz bands presented a combined concert to a Homer audience…

The 28th annual Anchor Point King Salmon Tournament first and second place winners, Judy Persnail (right) and Mark Tornai (left) from the boat Outlaw hold up their fish during weigh-in on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at the Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce building in Anchor Point, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Mcki Needham

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Anchor Point King Salmon Derby scheduled for April 27

The 29th annual Anchor Point King Salmon Derby, sponsored by the Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce, will be…

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House District 6 race gets 3rd candidate

Alana Greear filed a letter of intent to run on April 5

School board member Kelley Cizek, right, speaks as members Jason Tauriainen, Patti Truesdell and Penny Vadla listen during a special meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s School Board in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘They deserve better than this’

School board passes budget with broad swath of cuts, including pools, theaters and some support staff

A friendly, pumpkin-headed scarecrow stands outside the Pioneer Avenue entrance of Kachemak Bay Campus on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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KBC to host open house on early college opportunities for high schoolers

On Monday, April 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus will hold an…

Homer High School Yearbook students at the 2024 Great Gatsby prom. Left to right back: Ally High, Caitlyn Rogers, Minadora Reutov, Nathan Overson, William Bradshaw, Annabelle Franciscone, Sofia Loboy. Left to right front: Alaiyah Brost, Katelyn Marroquin, Suzanne Bishop, Julie Guess, Juliann Techie, Natalie Kientz, Amanda Toce

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Homer High celebrates prom with ‘The Great Gatsby’ theme

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel was set on Long Island, New York, and prom attendees dressed to the…

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland responds to questions during a joint worksession of the School Board and Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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District budgets for ‘worst-case scenario’, assumes no increase in state funding

‘This is all we can depend on’

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Alaska Warrior Partnership held a community partnership meeting in Homer at the Kenai Peninsula Campus last Wednesday.

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The Alaska Warrior Partnership instigates community service partnerships for Homer veterans

The Alaska division of America’s Warrior Partnership met with businesses, agencies and veterans at the Kachemak Bay Campus…