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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

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Current Homer Port and Harbor sport fish grinding building on Fish Dock Road on the Homer Spit last Friday.

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City awarded grant to assist in replacement of harbor’s fish-grinding building

The City of Homer held a special meeting March 14 to amend the fiscal year 2024 capital budget…

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…

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

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‘Planning to stay in Homer’: Doyon affirms commitment to Homer build at chamber luncheon

The event was open to HCOC member businesses

A sign reading “We love you” expresses community support for the Fritz Creek General Store on Saturday, July 8, 2023, after a fire severely damaged it on July 6. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Fritz Creek postal box customers must arrange new mail service by April 30

A July 6 fire severely damaged the historic Fritz Creek General Store and USPS mail center

(Foreground) Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland, left, and KPBSD Finance Director Liz Hayes, right, speak about the district’s fiscal year 2024 budget during a work session with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Amid uncertain state school funding, KPBSD labors to assemble a budget plan

March 14 is the deadline by which Gov. Mike Dunleavy must either sign, veto or not sign a…

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Anchor Point community members watch and wave at the Chapman School Eagle Ensemble float in the annual Snow Rondi parade on Saturday. <ins> on Milo Fritz Road in Anchor Point, Alaska</ins> Turnout at the parade was high despite high winds and below-freezing temperatures.

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Anchor Point turns out for Snow Rondi festivities

Annual winter weekend event series featured a packed schedule

The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Science Conference to take place this month

The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is hosting the 10th Kachemak Science Conference March 17-20 at Kachemak…

Alaska senators meet with members of the media to discuss education legislation after a press conference by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on the topic on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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Dunleavy threatens veto of education bill if more of his priorities aren’t added

It is not certain there would be the 40 votes necessary to override a veto by the governor

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Homer Middle School students Hunter Gauthier, Fletcher Darr and Amakah Stineff conduct the oil spill in a pan experiment in Ms. Booz’s 8th grade science class on Feb. 22.

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Area students participate in prevention and response lectures, workshops

The events come ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill