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Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council authorizes sister city celebration task force

Deadline to apply is March 25

Homer Airport Terminal and Cargo Facility on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Homer Airport runway rehabilitation project scheduled to begin April 1

The Alaska Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration in partnership with Quality Asphalt Paving (QAP), an…

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Council terminates city manager contract

The decision was reached in executive session last Thursday

Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)
Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)

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Students report mixed responses from lawmakers in education discussions

Delegates from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District lobbied the Alaska Legislature for more state funding and other…

The Kachemak Selo Middle-High School building sits against a backdrop of the ridge separating the village from the Kenai Peninsula Borough road system Thursday, Aug. 30 in Kachemak-Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Borough, state at odds over best path forward for Kachemak Selo school

Micciche said Wednesday that he and the Senate president are working together to determine a viable path forward

Bud Sexton, chief of staff for Alaska House Rep. Justin Ruffridge, reviews amendment language in their office at the Alaska State Capitol building on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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In Juneau, making laws is a group effort

Ruffridge chief of staff says team shares commitment to hard work

Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, speaks in opposition to an executive order that would abolish the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives during a joint legislative session on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Legislature kills most of Dunleavy’s executive orders in rare joint session

All the proposed orders would have shuffled or eliminated the responsibilities of various state boards

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board bets on state funding increase, issues teacher contracts

Thursday’s meeting came two days after board members convened to plan out the district’s immediate financial future

A Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pamphlet rests on a desk in the Alaska State Capitol on Monday, March 11, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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BOEM Alaska office probes renewables development in Cook Inlet

National Renewable Energy Lab estimates that there are 18 gigawatts of tidal power in Cook Inlet

Engineer Lake Cabin can be seen in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Refuge campsite and cabin rental fees to increase this summer

Certain fees for campground sites and public use cabins in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge will increase this…

The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee (top left) meets with Agnew::Beck consultants Shelly Wade (bottom) and Meg Friedenauer (top right) over Zoom on Monday, March 4, 2024 in Homer, Alaska. Screenshot.

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Comp plan project managers launch website, plan 1st public outreach event

Community open house scheduled for March 28

2023 tournament champion Gail Bilyeu, center, holds the winning fish during the Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament awards ceremony on Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. Pictured right are the 2022 and 2021 tournament champions, Weston and Andrew Marley. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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Winter King Tournament scheduled for March 23

Tournament’s 30th anniversary will be celebrated concurrently

A sockeye salmon rests atop a cooler at the mouth of the Kasilof River on Monday, June 26, 2023, in Kasilof, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Board of fisheries OKs dipnets for Cook Inlet commercial fisheries

Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission also has to approve before dipnets are used