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    Homer Forest School logo. (Image from Homer Forest School draft charter)
    Homer group envisions school in nature
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 15, 2022 2:30 am

    Homer Forest School would offer KPBSD students a learning model focused on immersion in the outdoors

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    Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire
Pat Tynan, left, and Tom Melville, review absentee ballots Tuesday at the Division of Elections office at the Mendenhall Mall. The review process is taking place in a separate room from where ballots are being tallied for the official results.
    Incumbents solidify positions in updated election count
    By Mark Sabbatini • November 15, 2022 1:30 am

    Peltola, Murkowski and Dunleavy likely to prevail when ranked choice ballots are tallied Nov. 23

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    Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire
Lillian Petershoare speaks into a microphone during a Walter Soboleff Day presentation in the Walter Soboleff Building Monday afternoon. She was joined by members of the Kuneix Hidí Northern Light United Church’s Native Ministries Committee Barbara Searls, Maxine Richert and Myra Munson to talk about an overture developed by in 2021, which analyzed and openly outlined the injustices and racially charged motives that led to the closure of Soboleff’s church by the Presbyterian Church.
    Walter Soboleff Day marked with pledge of action
    By Clarise Larson • November 14, 2022 2:30 am

    Church leaders share details about planned apology for church closure

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    Health leaders monitoring surge in respiratory viruses
    Health leaders monitoring surge in respiratory viruses
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 14, 2022 2:30 am

    Local and state health care leaders are monitoring a group of respiratory viruses on the rise nationwide and in Alaska.

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    U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola waves a sign during the morning rush hour in Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2022. Peltola, who became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress when she won a special election earlier this year, faces Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich and Libertarian Chris Bye in the general election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
    Peltola leads Alaska’s US House race in early...
    By Michael Armstrong • November 10, 2022 2:30 am

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Democrat U.S. Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola was leading in first-choice votes after early returns were posted Tuesday…

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    U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, left, Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka, center, and Democratic challenger Pat Chesbro discuss Arctic security, climate change and other issues during a debate Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage. (AP Photos/Mark Thiessen)
    Republicans will hold Alaska US Senate seat in...
    By Becky Bohrer Associated Press • November 10, 2022 2:30 am

    JUNEAU— A Republican candidate is expected to hold Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat, with Donald Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka and U.S. Sen….

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    Booths at the Homer Rotary Health Fair on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Homer High School Commons in Homer. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Health Fair returns to in-person
    By Charlie Menke • November 10, 2022 1:30 am

    People who attended the Homer Rotary Club Health Fair last Saturday might have walked out of Homer High School feeling…

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    Walkers here, please. (Photo by Charlie Menke / Homer News)
    Out of the Office: Walking
    By Charlie Menke • November 10, 2022 1:30 am

    “Only ideas won by walking have any value,” 20th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote.

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    A map showing tracts available as part of an upcoming state oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet. (Map via Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas)
    State to begin accepting Cook Inlet oil and...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • November 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Bidding will open Dec. 12 and close on Dec. 28 at 4 p.m.

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    Steller Secondary School seniors gather in the sunshine outside their school on Oct. 27. From left are Pauline Mallari, Samantha Antonio and Zane Barber, all bound for college. They all enjoy the Alaska outdoors lifestyle, but they all expressed lack of confidence in Alaska as a place for young people to build careers. Demographic data shows that young adults are leaving Alaska, contributing to nine straight years of net outmigration. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
    Angst over youth outmigration emerges in Alaska campaign...
    By Yereth Rosen Alaska Beacon • November 9, 2022 2:30 am

    University funding, career prospects and lifestyle amenities are factors cited as important to young Alaskans pondering their futures

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    The northern lights shine early on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, as seen from north of Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Callie Steinberg/Homer News)
    Best Bets
    November 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Here at Chez Betster the Betster always writes about the Betster’s Canine Companion, but does the B.C.C. ever got a…

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    Carla Klinker Cope, far left, and Nadia Jackinski-Sethi, center, co-curators of thethe Pratt Museum & Park's show "Salmon Culture: Kachemak Bay Connections," discuss the show in a talk on Friday, Nov. 3, 2022, at the museum. (Photo by Christina Whiting)
    Pratt exhibits celebrate salmon
    By Christina Whiting Special to the Homer News • November 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Art exhibits show how salmon connect us to one another and to place

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    Nick Varney
    Thanksgiving memories of the unhinged kind
    By Nick Varney • November 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Let’s take a first look at the oncoming day of feasting

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