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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

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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

Aleutian Airways logo. Photo courtesy of Aleutian Airways

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Aleutian airways to halt Homer service during runway project

Service will be suspended beginning April 15

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Homer pedestrian pathway project selected for federal funding

The project will create greater nonmotorized transportation access in Homer

Homer High School students who joined schools from around the state in a high school walkout pose near the end of the event, on Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. Not all students who attended the event are in the image. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Homer students join statewide student walkout

The event was in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto last month of an education bill passed by…

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Land trust wraps up Cooper Landing project with 46 more acres preserved

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust has protected 209.033 acres within the Kenai River watershed since 2020

Homer City Hall. (Homer News file photo)

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City to consider business licenses

City council resolution will be introduced on April 8

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Comp plan open house kicks off community conversation

The March 28 event is the first in a series of public feedback opportunities

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Workshop seeks to spur civic engagement

The City of Homer, the League of Women Voters and Kenai Peninsula Votes are hosting the event

Chris Keithley, 2024 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament champion, poses with his prize fish after the awards ceremony at the Deep Water Dock on the Spit in Homer, Alaska on Saturday, March 23, 2024. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Keithley reels in King win

Keithley’s fish weighed in at 25.96 pounds

The south end of Homer Harbor is photographed on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Harbor makes changes to moorage fees for seine skiffs

As of late February, seine skiffs now need separate transient moorage fees

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, walks into the Alaska House of Representatives before consideration of a veto override regarding education funding on Monday, March 18, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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By 1 vote, lawmakers sustain Dunleavy veto of education bill

The bipartisan bill included $680 increase to per-student funding