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Community members peruse the silent auction items while conversing during the annual Celebration of Lifelong Learning event at the Homer Public Library on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

Community

Library celebrates lifelong learning at annual event

This year’s Lifelong Learner and Youth Learner were honored and awarded at the annual Celebration of Lifelong Learning…

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Community

Art celebrating spring

Homer’s galleries and public art spaces celebrate spring with local artists showcasing new and continuing work. Stroll the…

The oldest swimmers of KSC stand together on Friday, March 21, 2025, after swimming 200 lengths (or 5,000 yards) at the Katie Kuhns Aquatic Center. From left to right, Jody Goodrich, Avery Briscoe, Katie Hallam, and Cassidy Carroll. (Photo courtesy of Jaime Roth)

Sports

Kachemak Swim Club hosts annual Swim-a-thon

Kachemak Swim Club held its annual Swim-a-thon on Friday, March 21, at the Kate Kuhns Aquatic Center.

This photograph by Inupiaq artist Jenny Irene is on display through April in her exhibit, “On this sand (together)” at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Bunnell Street Arts Center

Community

Arts and artists in April

Bunnell Street Arts Center hosts residencies, exhibits, performances, artist opportunities and more.

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, participates in a candidate forum hosted by the Peninsula Clarion and KBBI 890 AM at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

News

Vance calls on board of fish to clarify stance on Cook Inlet commercial fisheries

One board member said he wanted to see no setnets or drifters operating in the inlet at all.

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District logo. Photo courtesy of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

News

School board says no cuts to Homer Flex

The KPBSD Finance Committee on Tuesday recommended not making reductions to or closing Homer Flex High School at…

Penelope Haas is vice president of the Kachemak Bay Conservation Society and a commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay. (Courtesy photo)

Opinion

Point of View: Climate change is a hard reality

The chair of the Homer Planning Commission at a regular meeting this month called into question the science…

The Naushon sits in the Homer Harbor during its decommissioning ceremony on Friday, March 21, 2025, on Freight Dock Road on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

News

Former USCG cutter Naushon decommissioned

A ceremony in its honor was held Friday, March 21.

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Tournament champion Zach Weimann holds up his first-place trophy during the 2025 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament on Saturday.

News

Weimann wins fishing tournament championship

The 31st annual Homer Winter King Tournament saw high turnout Saturday.

A researcher points out fragments of elodea found in the upper stretches of Crescent Creek caught on tree branches and down logs. (Emily Heale/Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association)

News

Local conservation district feels impacts of federal funding freeze

Moves by the Trump administration earlier this year to freeze federal grants, loans and aid and to slash…

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Community

Unhinged Alaska: It can’t be break-up ‘cause there was no winter

I meditate a lot. Sometimes up to several seconds at once.

Shrubs grow outside of the Kenai Courthouse on Monday, July 3, 2023 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

News

Homer Middle School teacher arrested on charges of sexual assault and burglary

By Chloe Pleznac

City of Homer Special Projects and Communications Coordinator Jenny Carroll points to a posterboard of one of the proposed harbor alternatives while talking with community members during the Homer Harbor Expansion public meeting on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at Kachemak Bay Campus. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

News

Homer Harbor expansion project shares updates on $4.2 million feasibility study

The purpose of the meeting was to share updates on the feasibility study and garner public comments.