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Kenai Peninsula Education Association President Nathan Erfurth speaks from the bed of his truck in support of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District teachers and support staff outside of the George A. Navarre Admin Building on Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. Erfurth was removed this week as president of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s teachers union, days after he was arrested Saturday on two charges of sexual abuse of a minor. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Former Soldotna high school teacher charged with sex abuse of a minor ousted as head of teachers union

A former teacher at Soldotna High School was removed this week as president of the Kenai Peninsula Borough…

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Students, kindergarten through ninth grades, check their growth pods Feb. 14 in the hydroponics room at Nikolaevsk School.

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Nikolaevsk hydroponics ends year strong

The first year of operation culminated in multiple harvests, hands-on lessons for students and fundraising events

Homer Harbor on Saturday, May 20.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Army Corps hosts workshops on harbor expansion

The planning event was part of a three-year feasibility study for the project

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Local churches cleanup city during community service

At least 300 people participated in project teams from the Homer Spit to Karen Hornaday to Oil Changes

Homer Flex 2023 graduates celebrate during their commencement ceremony, Monday May 15, 2023, at Land’s End Resort. (Photo provided by Ingrid Harrald)

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Homer Flex High School graduates 10

The ceremony took place Monday Land’s End Resort Quarter Deck

Homer High School 2023 graduating seniors stand during commencement in the Homer High School’s Alice Witte Gymnasium, May 15, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Emilie Springer/ Homer News)

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‘Dive into experiences and endeavor to learn’

Graduates receive accolades, advice, farewell in 2023 commencement ceremony

Kachemak Bay Campus Director Dr. Reid Brewer welcomes KBC graduates and audience members to the 2023 commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Campus returns to in-person commencement ceremony

The campus conferred 62 degrees and certificates during its 53rd annual commencement hosted on Wednesday

Homer poet and Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference faculty member Erin Coughlin Hollowell, left, reads a passage that shows words can be understood even when the letters are garbled as 2018 keynote speaker Anthony Doerr watches. Doerr delivered the opening address at the start of the annual conference on June 5, 2018, at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns May 13-16

The event will be held at Kachemak Bay Campus with readings at other venues in Homer

A song sparrow perches on a willow branch near the Beluga Slough trail on Friday, May 5, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Shorebird festival entertains birders of all ages and abilites

126 shorebird species seen at 31st Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival

USS Momsen offers public tours on May 4, 2023, in Homer, Alaska.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Homer welcomes USS Momsen

The USS Momsen arrived at the Homer Deep Water Dock on May 3, ahead of the Northern Edge…

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Homer man indicted by feds on wildlife charges

If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and $20,000 fine on each count

GULF OF ALASKA (May 25, 2019) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Gulf of Alaska. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erick A. Parsons/Released)

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Navy’s Gulf of Alaska exercises begin this month

US Navy to start training in the Gulf of Alaska with Exercise Northern Edge

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The lotus lamp for the Loved and Lost Memorial Bench was lit April 26 in front of the Homer Public Library.

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A light for the lost

“Loved and Lost” memorial bench lamp-lighting ceremony honors Murnane and the missing