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    Kachemak Bay Campus
    Homer city council member Jason Davis (center) speaks to the audience gathered in Pioneer Hall for the Israel-Palestine conflict panel discussion on Friday, Dec. 15<ins>, 2023</ins> at Kachemak Bay Campus<ins> in Homer, Alaska</ins>. Davis formerly served in the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Israel-Palestine discussion brings listeners to KBC
    By Emilie Springer • December 20, 2023 1:30 am

    A discussion on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict hosted Friday at Kachemak Bay campus drew a standing-room only crowd to a…

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    The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Campus to host panel on the...
    By Emilie Springer • December 13, 2023 1:30 am

    The Kachemak Bay Campus of the University of Alaska will host a five-member open-format conversation about the Israel-Palestine conflict in…

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    Kachemak Bay Campus Director Dr. Reid Brewer (left) presents valedictorian Elizabeth Rozeboom (right) with her Associate of Arts diploma during the 2023 KBC Commencement on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman
    KBC director resigns to transition into new career
    By Delcenia Cosman • December 6, 2023 1:30 am

    Dr. Reid Brewer will take up a NOAA position at Kasitsna Bay Lab

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    A friendly, pumpkin-headed scarecrow stands outside the Pioneer Avenue entrance of Kachemak Bay Campus on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    KBC offers evening course on raising and caring...
    By Emilie Springer • November 29, 2023 1:30 am

    Casey Matney, associate professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, is providing a course on Thursday evening,…

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Dr. Debbie Tobin and Marc Webber and the Semester by the Bay students conducting field work this fall in Kenai Fjords National Park heading for Northwestern Glacier.
    Students wrap up Semester by the Bay with...
    By Emilie Springer • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Students participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay will provide presentations Friday, Nov. 3, at the 2023…

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    Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchoarge, as seen on July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Kenai Peninsula College finalizes land purchase
    By Delcenia Cosman • October 25, 2023 1:30 am

    The lot, next door to Kachemak Bay Campus, formerly belonged to Young’s Downtown Inn and Restaurant

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    Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchoarge, as seen on July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Campus to host discussion on cycling anthology
    By Emilie Springer • August 30, 2023 1:30 am

    “Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska” is a collection of stories, fiction and nonfiction by authors across the state

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Benjamin Jenny and Jen Ky stop by to help Monica Kopp of Homer Soil and Water plant a cover crop of kale at the KPC high tunnel on Aug. 8.
    Kachemak Bay Campus announces advances to the sustainable...
    By Emilie Springer • August 16, 2023 1:30 am

    Homer campus opens high tunnel as a teaching lab

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    Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer gives a presentation on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman
    ‘Stories can be medicine’
    By Delcenia Cosman • May 25, 2023 1:30 am

    Writers’ conference features keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer

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    Kachemak Bay Campus Director Dr. Reid Brewer welcomes KBC graduates and audience members to the 2023 commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Campus returns to in-person commencement ceremony
    By Delcenia Cosman • May 12, 2023 1:30 am

    The campus conferred 62 degrees and certificates during its 53rd annual commencement hosted on Wednesday

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    Homer poet and Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference faculty member Erin Coughlin Hollowell, left, reads a passage that shows words can be understood even when the letters are garbled as 2018 keynote speaker Anthony Doerr watches. Doerr delivered the opening address at the start of the annual conference on June 5, 2018, at Land’s End Resort in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference returns May 13-16
    By Emilie Springer • May 11, 2023 1:30 am

    The event will be held at Kachemak Bay Campus with readings at other venues in Homer

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    Christine Thorsrud and Caroline Venuti at their retirement celebration at KBC on May 4. Emilie Springer/ Homer News
    Kachemak Bay Campus celebrates staff retirements
    By Emilie Springer • May 11, 2023 1:30 am

    Faculty, staff and students join classroom to share memories, say thank you and say goodbye to Caroline Venuti and Christine Thorsrud

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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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