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    Kachemak Bay Campus
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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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    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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