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Homer’s Little Fireweed Academy students grades K-2, teachers and staff deliver donations to Homer’s Food Pantry at the Homer Methodist Church on Friday, Dec. 20. Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Little Fireweed donates to food pantry

Homer’s Little Fireweed Academy students on Friday, Dec. 20, delivered three wagons of donations to the Homer Food…

Photo by Emilie Springer
Fireweed Academy 4th grade students Kai Gregoire and Eli Busche-Vold show their ASTE award in the school hallway last week.

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Fireweed Academy students recognized for podcast in statewide contest

Two Fireweed Academy students this month won a statewide audio technology award for their work creating a podcast.

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Fireweed Academy offers community fall festival on Friday

Homer’s Fireweed Academy will host their fall Harvest Festival FUNdraiser on Friday, Oct. 20 at the West Homer…

Emilie Springer/ Homer News
OPUS conductor Abimael Melendez helps students construct cardboard violins on Sept. 15 at Little Fireweed Academy.

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Finding a home at the end of the road

Argentinian conductor Abimael Melendez brings his talents to Homer’s OPUS

Fireweed Kindergarten, first and second grade students in the Makerspace afterschool club sponsored by Homer Council on the Arts make flowers to decorate for the May Day celebration.  Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Fireweed Academy to celebrate return of May Day festival

Fireweed Academy will host a community celebration on Saturday, May 6 from 1-4 p.m. in the yard at…

Photo by Emilie Springer/ Homer News
R/V Tiglax Captain John Faris shows students a chart of Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet in the wheelhouse of the boat in the harbor in Homer on April 6.

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Research life on the seas

6th grade Fireweed Academy students tour Alaska Research Vessel Tiglax in Homer harbor

Sixth grade band and Homer Elks Club Members at West Homer Elementary on March 30, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided by Mercedes Harness)

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Elementary students present at talent show

Music, dance and theater were all on display

Fireweed Academy students take art to next level with public mural

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Fireweed Academy students take art to next level with public mural

Teachers and staff at Fireweed Academy in Homer are known for using the arts as a core tool…

Little Fireweed Academy students practice with ceramics during the culmination of an art residency at the school Friday, March 29, 2019 in Homer, Alaska. Debbie Piper was the artist in residence. (Photo courtesy Kim Fine)

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Fireweed celebrates artist residency

Debbie Piper was the most recent Artist-in-Schools resident at Little Fireweed.

Daniel Perry answers questions from students after a concert Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 at Paul Banks Elementary School in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Local musicians play to support youth ensemble programs

Big musicians came together to lend a hand to their little counterparts last weekend by putting on a…

First grade student Elizabeth Parke practices holding a cardboard violin, in anticipation of the real thing, at Fireweed Academy in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Miranda Weiss)

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Fireweed becomes second Homer school to employ group music program

There’s something growing in Homer, and it’s not a giant fungus or the many glaciers. An ensemble music…

Students from Fireweed Academy listen to a presentation during an Oct. 8, 2018 field trip to the Homer Courthouse in Homer, Alaska. There, the learned more about the law, law enforcement and the inner workings of the court. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Fireweed students get a look at local court system

Fireweed Academy students headed back to their classrooms with a lot more knowledge of their local court system…

Students get an up close look at a salmon during an educational egg take trip to the Anchor River on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 in Anchor Point, Alaska. Eggs are harvested and fertilized, then sent back to each classroom so the students can watch them grow into fry. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

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Students kick off Salmon in the Classroom program with egg take

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct the organization Fish and Game gets the salmon from…