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Todd Smith, who sits in a commercial fishing set net seat, discusses proposals during a meeting of the Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee at Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association in Kenai, Alaska, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Advisory committee supports dipnets, shorter nets for commercial fisheries

The meeting was among a series scheduled to set recommendations ahead of the Upper Cook Inlet Finfish meeting…

Alaska Department of Fish and Game logo. (Graphic by Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Public comment open for Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries meeting

Nearly 200 proposals will be deliberated upon during the meeting

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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City council joins peninsula voices advocating for increased BSA

The Homer City Council unanimously passed a resolution at their Jan. 22 regular meeting advocating for increased education…

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New vet clinic opens in Anchor Point

Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for new business

The Homer Spit stretching into Kachemak Bay is seen here on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Halibut Cove woman sentenced in seaplane incident

Marian Beck was sentenced to probation and fined on federal navigation interference charges

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Elijah Williams, 7th grade first place chess champion, at the chess tournament at West Homer Elementary on Monday.

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West Homer Elementary hosts chess tournament

Eighty-five students from Homer area schools in grades three through eight competed in a chess tournament at West…

Upper Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone can be seen on this map provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Image via fisheries.noaa.gov)

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State responds to proposed Cook Inlet EEZ management

A proposed rule would implement federal management on commercial and recreational salmon fishing in the Cook Inlet Exclusive…

Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks at the Kenai Classic Roundtable at Kenai Peninsula College on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, near Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Biden LNG pause doesn’t impact Alaska LNG Project

The move nonetheless drew criticism from the state’s congressional delegation

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Homer High School Poetry Out Loud competition winners Bea McDonough, Clark Milstead and Bryce Glidden on the Mariner High School Stage on Jan. 24.

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Poetry Out Loud: Homer High students advance to regional poetry competition

Homer High School hosted the annual Poetry Out Loud recitation contest last Wednesday, Jan. 24. Students school-wide were…

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Deena Bishop, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, testifies Saturday during a House Rules Committee meeting.

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Peninsula residents weigh in on school funding debate

More than a dozen comments were made by residents of the Kenai Peninsula on S.B. 140

Areas cleared to make way for the Cooper Landing Bypass Project (bottom) can be seen above the Kenai River in Cooper Landing in this August 10, 2021, photo. (Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion file)

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Borough plans for 1,000-acre Cooper Landing property take shape

The borough-owned parcel will be bisected by the Cooper Landing Bypass Project

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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Planning commission votes down Lighthouse Village preliminary replat

The commission will send their recommendation and comments to the borough

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Reid Brewer takes the helm from Kris Holderied as new director at the Kasitsna Bay Lab at Homer Islands and Oceans Center on Jan. 16.

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Reid Brewer takes the helm as director at NOAA’s Kachemak Bay Kasitsna Bay Lab

The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is located on the south side of Kachemak Bay from Homer near the community…