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USS Momsen offers public tours on May 4, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. Emilie Springer/ Homer News

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Homer welcomes USS Momsen

The USS Momsen arrived at the Homer Deep Water Dock on May 3, ahead of the Northern Edge…

Kiernan Lapp, of Soldotna High School, is introduced by Merrill Sikorski at the Caring for the Kenai Awards Celebration held during a Joint Chamber Luncheon on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Chambers honor Caring for the Kenai finalists

The contest challenges peninsula students to devise ways to improve the environment or prepare for a natural disaster

2023 Taste of Homer event logo. (Promotional image)

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Taste of Homer kicks off this weekend

The nine-day “gastronomic journey” begins Saturday and will run through Sunday, May 21

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Family-friendly health fair Saturday

Annual Safe and Healthy Kids fair offers events, activities and fun for kids of all ages

Derotha Ferraro from the fishing vessel Big Game poses with the king salmon she caught in the Anchor Point King Salmon Calcutta on Sunday, May 12, 2019, in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Bill Scott)

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Anchor Point King Salmon Tournament kicks off this weekend

The 28th annual Anchor Point King Salmon Calcutta and Tournament will be held this Friday and Saturday.

An attendee of the invitational gathering on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the Norman Lowell Art Gallery in Anchor Point, Alaska views a display of photographs and information on Lowell’s life and career. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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Norman Lowell gallery open for the season

At the top of a winding, tree-lined gravel road above the Sterling Highway lies a hidden community treasure.

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Homer man indicted by feds on wildlife charges

If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and $20,000 fine on each count

GULF OF ALASKA (May 25, 2019) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Gulf of Alaska. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erick A. Parsons/Released)

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Navy’s Gulf of Alaska exercises begin this month

US Navy to start training in the Gulf of Alaska with Exercise Northern Edge

Photo by Art Koeninger/courtesy The lotus lamp for the Loved and Lost Memorial Bench was lit April 26 in front of the Homer Public Library.

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A light for the lost

“Loved and Lost” memorial bench lamp-lighting ceremony honors Murnane and the missing

Western Sandpipers scurry across the sand in search of food in the mudflats. Sandpipers are the most prevalent bird at the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge during the 2023 Shorebird and Nature Festival May 5-7. (Jan Wieser / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

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Shorebird Festival opens this weekend for all birding enthusiasts

Registration is still open for the 31st annual Shorebird Festival, running May 3-7.

A sockeye salmon’s tail protrudes above the edge of a bin on a setnet site July 11, 2016, near Kenai, Alaska. (Peninsula Clarion file photo)

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Local fishers speak up for buyback bill

S.B. 82, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, would create the voluntary program

A chart shows the number and type of Alaska residents receiving Medicaid coverage based on either 2022 Alaska Medicaid Claims data (yellow) or 2021 U.S. Census data (orange). More than 260,000 residents are currently enrolled, about 30,000 more than 2020, due to a federal provision that kept states from removing people during the COVID-19 pandemic. That provision ended April 1 and Alaska officials are scheduled review eligibility of all residents enrolled during the next 12 months. (Alaska Division of Public Assistance)

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Department of Health to reevaluate every Medicaid beneficiary

The state has to begin redetermination for everyone receiving benefits by March 31

Cook Inletkeeper Science Director Sue Mauger speaks in front of a packed crowd during a panel discussion for the Kenai Peninsula College Showcase “State of the Salmon” on Wednesday, April 20, 2023, at KPC in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Showcase paints a grim picture for future of salmon

Warming waters, more numerous predators, bycatch, parasites, increased competition all point to tremendous difficulty in species resurgence