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Homer Electric Association General Manager Brad Janorschke speaks at the utility’s annual meeting of the members at Kenai Central High School in Kenai, Alaska, on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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HEA to host community meetings in October

The gatherings will include updates on HEA projects and operations.

The basket catches fire on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025 at Mariner Park in Homer, Alaska. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Homer ‘OPENS’ itself to annual Burning Basket project

This year’s basket was the 22nd to be created in Homer.

Vice President Kelly Cooper speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly OKs information campaign on ballot measures

The education campaign would highlight “challenges” related to citizen-led initiatives on this year’s ballot.

A beach along Kachemak Bay is photographed in 2018. (Homer News file)

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State issues alert for toxic shellfish found in Kachemak Bay

Shellfish from “the inner bay” have been found to contain amounts of toxins responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning.

President Zen Kelly speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, July 7, 2025. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board authorizes $1.8 million in new, restored spending

The spending comes in response to the increase in funding received from the state this year.

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Sports

Colony swimmers sweep Homer Invite

The Colony swimming and diving teams swept the Homer Invite on Saturday at Homer High School.

Homer’s Johannes Bynagle runs at the George Plumley Invite at Palmer High School in Palmer, Alaska, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Photo by Jeremiah Bartz/Frontiersman)

Sports

Homer boys nab 2nd at George Plumley Invite

Unlike at state, where the runners are broken up into three divisions, all the varsity runners were in…

Kenai Central's Sophie Tapley digs up a ball against Palmer on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, at the 18th annual Shayna Pritchard Memorial Volleyball Tournament at Nikiski Middle-High School in Nikiski, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Sports

Palmer topples Kenai for Pritchard title

Homer’s Madelyn Miotke won the Shayna Marie Pritchard Award.

Homer's CJ Burns runs the ball against Redington on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, at Redington Jr/Sr High School in Wasilla, Alaska. (Photo by Bruce Eggleston/matsusports.net)

Sports

Homer football shuts out Redington

The visiting Homer football team defeated Redington 26-0 on Friday in the Mid Alaska Conference opener for both…

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Sports

Homer runners take 2 divisions at MCCA Class Challenge

The Homer cross-country running team won a pair of divisions at the Mountain City Christian Academy Class Challenge…

Sample ballots are displayed in Kenai City Hall on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

News

Voter registration deadline is Sunday

Election day is Tuesday, Oct. 7.

U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche and Alaska Board of Fisheries Chair Märit Carlson-Van Dort participate in a panel on Alaska king salmon legislation and regulation during the Kenai Classic Roundtable hosted by the Kenai River Sportfishing Association at the Soldotna Field House on Aug. 20, 2025, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Salmon focus of annual KRSA roundtable

Discussions centered on the decline of the species in the Kenai River and across the state.

Volunteers at Glacier Spit Cleanup in September 2022. Photo provided by Center for Alaska Coastal Studies

Community

CoastWalk 2025 kicks off this September

CACS’s annual marine debris cleanup and data collection event starts Sept. 6.