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    University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Cathy Sandeen speaks last Friday, June 14, at the opening of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference at Land’s End Resort, Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    New UAA chancellor sees university as benefitting many
    By Michael Armstrong • June 19, 2019 5:30 am

    Eight months into her job as University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor, Cathy Sandeen has survived not just her first winter…

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    Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference keynote speaker Diane Ackerman. (Photo provided; Sue Michlovitz)
    Writers’ conference gives birth to new careers, friendships...
    By Michael Armstrong • June 12, 2019 5:30 am

    This year’s 18th annual Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference brings together writers and readers of all ages from the Lower 49…

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    Kids get taste of higher ed during Kids2College campus visit
    Kids get taste of higher ed during Kids2College...
    By Megan Pacer • April 10, 2019 5:30 am

    Most kids in the sixth grade might not be picturing what it’s like to sit in a collegiate lecture hall,…

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    Dr. Reid Brewer holds a Pacific giant octopus while doing field research in 2009. Brewer was named Campus Director of Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, on Oct. 19. (Photo provided)
    Brewer named new KBC director
    By Michael Armstrong • October 24, 2018 1:00 am

    After a national search and three finalists, Dr. Reid Brewer, 46, of Sitka, has been selected and approved to become…

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    Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay students Sam Roth, left, and Sophia Peterson, right, help Dr. Debbie Boege Tobin, back left, and Lee Post, back right, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center in Homer, Alaska, flense a subadult beluga whale found on the Deep Creek beach on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, near Ninilchik, Alaska. The students were removing tissue from the whale in preparation for cleaning it as part of Post’s bone articulation class. Roth visits from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and Peterson from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The whale was collected under permits from the National Marine Fisheries and Alaska SeaLife Center. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    KBC students help in dead Beluga whale stranding...
    By Michael Armstrong • October 17, 2018 11:09 am

    Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to note that the whale was collected under permits from the National Marine…

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    Kachemak Bay Campus Director Carol Swartz, left, speaks June 8, 2018, at the opening of the 2018 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Campus director set to retire
    By Megan Pacer • August 15, 2018 10:38 am

    Carol Swartz, director of Kachemak Bay Campus, will retire from the University of Alaska System effective Dec. 31 of this…

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    KBC Commencement planned for May 6
    KBC Commencement planned for May 6
    April 30, 2015 9:35 am

    The 2015 Commencment of the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College 2015 Commencement will be at 7 p.m. May…

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    School Events
    School Events
    March 5, 2015 12:01 pm

    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District March 6: Inservice, no school. March 9-13: Spring break March 27: Early release day. April…

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    School Events
    School Events
    February 25, 2015 3:58 pm

    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District March 2: School board meeting, 7 p.m. March 3: Interviews with district superintendent candidates. March…

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    FASD public lecture at KBC tonight
    FASD public lecture at KBC tonight
    October 29, 2014 2:20 pm

    Deb Evensen, a national educational consultant specializing in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, will discuss new ways to help children with…

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    Project GRAD scholars look ahead
    Project GRAD scholars look ahead
    July 2, 2014 5:03 pm

    Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula would like to acknowledge and thank the Homer Foundation’s Youth Advisory Committee for its ongoing and…

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    Lenore Swanson smiles after receiving her master of arts in teaching at Kachemak Bay Campus commencement May 7 at the Mariner Theatre.-Michael Armstrong, Homer News
    KBC graduates ‘charge ahead’ at May 7 commencement
    By BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG • May 14, 2014 2:31 pm

    Take risks. Say thank you. Smile. Be kind to yourself. Start something new.That was among the advice given May 7…

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    KBC commencement May 7
    KBC commencement May 7
    April 30, 2014 4:27 pm

    The Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College-University of Alaska Anchorage, has announced the 2014 commencement will be at Homer High…

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