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Andrew Marley, the 2021 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament winner, at left, holds his prize winning 25.62-pound white king salmon on Saturday, April 17, on the Homer Spit in Homer. Helping him are his father, Jay Marley, center, and older brother Weston Marley, right. The family team included Erica Marley, not shown, all fishing on the Fly Dough. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Winter King postponed to Sunday

The 28th annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament has been postponed to Sunday.

The Alan G with C & C Diving and Salvage tows the Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response Inc. barge Redoubt away from the Mud Bay beach in Kachemak Bay off Kachemak Drive at about 2:20 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2022, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Barge runs aground in Mud Bay

Boat pulls CISPRI spill response vessel off beach; no spills reported.

Justin Trail embraces Landon Colburn after the Ninilchik Wolverines won the Class 2A state basketball championship game at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Camille Botello/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ninilchik boys cap perfect season with state title

Saturday’s state title was Ninilchik’s first since 2017 and their third overall.

Rep. Don Young smiles during a sit-down in the Juneau Empire’s offices last June. Young died on Friday, according to the longtime U.S. representative’s office. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire File)

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Rep. Don Young, longest-serving congressmember, dies at 88

His office announced Young’s death in a statement Friday night.

Homer Mayor Ken Castner, far right, and members of the Homer City Council meet on Monday, March 14, 2022, in the Cowles Council Chambers, Homer City Hall, in Homer, Alaska. (Screenshot)

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Council approves Old Town water-sewer district

Council approves creation of Bunnell Avenue-Charles Way special assessment district

About 45 people participated in a demonstration on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska, in support of Ukraine and against the Russian invasion. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Homer supports Ukraine

About 45 people demonstrated on March 3 in support of Ukraine and against the Russian invasion.

A group of young people try out the thawed skate park on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at the Homer Education and Recreation Complex in Homer, Alaska. The Homer City Council met Monday and heard a report by Stantec staff on a proposed design for a new community center to go on the HERC site. The design includes a skate park. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Council gets first look at community center plan

Stantec presents first draft of multipurpose community center to go on HERC site.

Former Gov. Bill Walker discusses his gubernatorial campaign with the Citizen’s AKtion Network on Feb. 17. (Screenshot from meeting)

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Gubernatorial candidate Walker discusses election with CAN

Former Alaska governor and current gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker spent more than an hour with the Citizen’s AKtion…

Toras Fisk is thanked for his service after the 2021 Veterans Day ceremony at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Center on Nov. 11. (Photo by Sarah Knapp/Homer News)

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‘I’m just so lucky’

Longtime Homer resident and World War II veteran Toras Fisk turns 100.

A sign at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Bartlett Street points the way to the South Peninsula Hospital COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic on Bartlett Street on Feb. 17, 2021, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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COVID rate continues dropping

Reported death was one of 27 new deaths reported last week.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to the Alaska Municipal League and Alaska Conference of Mayors winter meeting at Centennial Hall on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. The governor gave a presentation on the state finances which included a slide referencing the disagreements with his proposals some lawmakers were likely to have. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

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Dunleavy touts state finances, bond plan to municipal leaders

Bills and bonds.

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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City of Homer files amicus brief in EEZ litigation

The City of Homer filed an amicus brief in the United Cook Inlet Drift Association v. National Marine…

Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News A sign warns of icy conditions in the parking lot of the Bartlett Street COVID-19 vaccine and testing clinic on Thursday, Jan. 13, in Homer.

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COVID rate continues dropping

One Kenai Peninsula man in his 80s reported to have died.