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    Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet are dragged up onto the beach at a test site for selective harvest setnet gear in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Draft plan published for disbursement of $11.5 million...
    By Jacob Dye • July 17, 2024 1:30 am

    Public comment will be accepted for the draft spend plan until July 24

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    Nick Varney
    Reeling Em’ In: Cherishing an old fishing friend
    By Nick Varney • July 17, 2024 1:30 am

    Time now for the fishing report for the week of July 15, 2024.

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    Music lovers dance to Nervis Rex at the KBBI Concert on the Lawn on July 28, 2012, at Karen Hornaday Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong Homer News)
    KBBI to host another annual Concert on the...
    By Emilie Springer • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    The concert, which began in Homer in 1982, will include a wide array of musical groups

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    South Peninsula Hospital Home Health Center on Pioneer Avenue will soon housea licensed childcare center for hospital employees. Photo provided by Derotha Ferraro
    Property renovation on Pioneer Avenue in Homer for...
    By Jacob Dye • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    Assembly approves increased scope of work for SPH child care facility

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    Al and Grace Poindexter pose with the Fishy Peat potting soil in the Anchor Point Greenhouse on July 8, 2024, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/ Homer News)
    Anchor Point Greenhouse keeps on growing
    By Emilie Springer • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    The Anchor Point Greenhouse provides a tour and description of local products available at their facility

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    “Kissing Kevin” by Sara Berg is available for purchase in print. (Image via Amazon.com)
    Sara Berg’s memoir about the Vietnam War now...
    By Emilie Springer • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    “Kissing Kevin: An American Nurse in the Vietnam War” came out in print in June 2024

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    This is the front side of the 1942 draft-registration card for Wilford Lorenzo “Bill” Hansen. He came to live on the Kenai Peninsula during the early 1950s and soon purchased a share in the Circus Bar, later changing its name to the Hilltop Bar and Café. (Document from ancestry.com)
    A violent season — Part 6
    By Clark Fair • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the Ann Pederson suicide and the Jack Griffiths murder in 1961, the former Circus Bar in Soldotna…

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    The Kasilof River is seen from the Kasilof River Recreation Area, July 30, 2019, in Kasilof, Alaska. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)
    King salmon fishing closed on Kasilof starting Monday
    By Jacob Dye • July 11, 2024 1:30 am

    The emergency order is being issued to protect returning king salmon, citing weak returns

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    Photo provided by Nicole Markelz
Todd Markelz rides for the international Everesting Challenge on Homer’s West Hill Road on Tuesday, July 2.
    California man climbs Mount Everest, in Homer
    By Emilie Springer • July 10, 2024 1:30 am

    The Everesting Challenge is an event in which athletes climb the equivalent vertical height of Mount Everest, 29,032 feet

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    The entrance to the Homer Electric Association office is seen here in Kenai, Alaska, on May 7, 2020. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion file)
    Opinion: Speak up on net metering program
    By Christina Harris • July 5, 2024 2:30 am

    The program allows members to install and use certain types of renewable generation to offset monthly electric usage and sell excess power to HEA

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    The Tustumena Lake fire, about 20 miles south of Soldotna, can be seen from above in July 2024 on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Dale Eicher)
    Tustumena fire contained, cleanup continues
    By Jacob Dye • July 5, 2024 1:30 am

    The fire was caused by an escaped campfire and discovered last weekend

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    Jan Peyton poses with "Open Heart," a watercolor painting she began in 2003 and recently completed, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at her home in Homer, Alaska. "Open Heart" will be on display in her solo exhibit, "Ode to Fireweed," in July at Fireweed Gallery. Photo by Christing Whiting
    An ode to fireweed
    By Christina Whiting For Homer News • July 4, 2024 1:30 am

    Homer artist celebrates her favorite flower through new work and a series of resurrected paintings

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    A harbor seal pup rescued from near the Copper River Delta is photographed at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. (Photo provided by Alaska SeaLife Center)
    2 more seals admitted to SeaLife Center
    By Delcenia Cosman • July 3, 2024 1:30 am

    Wildlife response team is now caring for six harbor seal pups

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